Contemporary Materialism: A Reader by Paul K. Moser,J. D. Trout PDF

By Paul K. Moser,J. D. Trout

Contemporary Materialism offers a major number of fresh paintings on materialism in reference to metaphysics, philosophy of language, philosophy of brain and theories of worth. This anthology charts the modern difficulties, positions and subject matters related to materialism. It illuminates materialism's advanced intersection with similar topics akin to cognition and psychology. by means of collecting a wide-range of philosophical interventions round the topic of materialism, this anthology offers a precious dialogue of ways materialism can successfully serve the needs of philosophical evaluate. To extra support the reader, it additionally includes an intensive bibliography on modern materialism.

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