ABSTRACT

This is Volume I of five in a series on Epistemology and Metaphysics. Originally published in 1865, this book offers the history of materialism and a criticism of its present importance in that period of time, presented in three parts.

section Third|80 pages

Seventeenth Century Materialism

chapter I|17 pages

Gassendi

chapter II|21 pages

Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury

chapter III|40 pages

The Later Workings of Materialism in England

section Fourth|148 pages

Eighteenth Century Materialism

chapter II|43 pages

De La Mettrie

chapter III|32 pages

‘The System of Nature'

chapter IV|27 pages

Reaction Against Materialism in Germany

section First|142 pages

Modern Philosophy

chapter I|82 pages

Kant and Materialism

chapter II|60 pages

Philosophical Materialism Since Kant

section Second|103 pages

The Natural Sciences

chapter I|54 pages

Materialism and Scientific Research

chapter II|47 pages

Force and Matter

section |80 pages

The Natural Sciences

chapter III|23 pages

The Scientific Cosmogony

chapter IV|55 pages

Darwinism and Teleology

section Third|150 pages

Man and the Soul

chapter I|28 pages

The Relation of Man to the Animal World

chapter II|51 pages

Brain and Soul

chapter III|40 pages

Scientific Psychology

section Fouth|132 pages

Ethical Materialism and Religion