Materialism: A Historical and Philosophical Inquiry

Opening with materialism's early thinkers, including Epicurus, Hobbes and Hume up to Darwin and Marx, Brown and Ladyman explain how materialism's beginnings as imaginative vision of the true natures and properties of things faced a major challenge from modern physics, in the form of quantum theory and the general theory of relativity.

Author: Robin Brown,James Ladyman
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 05/13/2019
Pages: 142
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.00w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9780367201340

About the Author

Robin Gordon Brown is a Research Associate in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Bristol, UK.

James Ladyman is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Bristol, UK. He is the author of Understanding Philosophy of Science (2002) and editor (with Alexander Bird) of Arguing About Science (2012), both published by Routledge.