Materialism : A Historical and Philosophical Inquiry - 9780367201340

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.

• | : James Ladyman, Robin Brown
• | Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• | Publication Date: May 13, 2019
• | Country of Publication: United Kingdom
• | Number of Pages: 142 pages
• | Language: Unknown
• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-10: 0367201348
• | ISBN-13: 9780367201340