Materialism: A Historico-Philosophical Introduction

"Wolfe successfully detects a historico-philosophical common trait connecting, rather than materialistic theories them-selves, the negative dismissals of materialism, from the first uses of the term in 17th century Cambridge Platonism to contempo-rary philosophy. ... opens new perspectives for both his-torical scholarship and philosophical reflection." (Paolo Pecere, Rivista di Filosofia, Vol. CVII (3), December, 2016) "This is a Modernist book, in the literary sense, for richness of ideas and characters, and for boldness of thought and expression. ... All this fullness of content and expression makes undoubtedly for an intriguing and instructive reading." (E. Pasini, Journal of Interdisciplinary History of Ideas, Vol. 5 (9), 2016)

• Chapter 1:  Introduction: The Historiography of Materialism.- Chapter 2: Two Basic Forms of Materialism: As a Thesis about the Mind (Psychological Thesis) and as a Thesis about the World (Cosmological Thesis).- Chapter 3: Materialism and the Body.- Chapter 4: Ethics: Is Materialism an Immoralism? La Mettrie and Diderot.- Chapter 5: Can the Materialist be a Christian? Atheist and Mortalist Debates from Coward to Priestley.- Chapter 6: The Posterity of Enlightenment Materialism.- Chapter 7: Conclusion: Materialism as an Anti-foundationalism.