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href="#Continental_philosophy"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.2.2</span> <span>Continental philosophy</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Continental_philosophy-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Defining_&quot;matter&quot;" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Defining_&quot;matter&quot;"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3</span> <span>Defining "matter"</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Defining_&quot;matter&quot;-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Physicalism" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Physicalism"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4</span> <span>Physicalism</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Physicalism-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li 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<span>Materialism as methodology</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Materialism_as_methodology-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-See_also" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#See_also"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7</span> <span>See also</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-See_also-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Notes" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Notes"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8</span> <span>Notes</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Notes-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#References"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">9</span> <span>References</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-References-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Further_reading" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Further_reading"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">10</span> <span>Further reading</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Further_reading-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-External_links" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#External_links"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">11</span> <span>External links</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-External_links-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </nav> </div> </div> <div class="mw-content-container"> <main id="content" class="mw-body"> <header class="mw-body-header vector-page-titlebar"> <nav aria-label="Contents" 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href="https://als.wikipedia.org/wiki/Materialismus" title="Materialismus – Alemannic" lang="gsw" hreflang="gsw" data-title="Materialismus" data-language-autonym="Alemannisch" data-language-local-name="Alemannic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Alemannisch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-am mw-list-item"><a href="https://am.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%89%81%E1%88%B5_%E1%8A%A0%E1%8A%AB%E1%88%8B%E1%8B%8A%E1%8A%90%E1%89%B5" title="ቁስ አካላዊነት – Amharic" lang="am" hreflang="am" data-title="ቁስ አካላዊነት" data-language-autonym="አማርኛ" data-language-local-name="Amharic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>አማርኛ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ar mw-list-item"><a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%A9" title="مادية – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="مادية" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-an mw-list-item"><a href="https://an.wikipedia.org/wiki/Materialismo" title="Materialismo – Aragonese" lang="an" hreflang="an" data-title="Materialismo" data-language-autonym="Aragonés" data-language-local-name="Aragonese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Aragonés</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ast mw-list-item"><a href="https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Materialismu" title="Materialismu – Asturian" lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title="Materialismu" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Asturianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Materializm" title="Materializm – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Materializm" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-azb mw-list-item"><a href="https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%B2%D9%85" title="ماتریالیزم – South Azerbaijani" lang="azb" hreflang="azb" data-title="ماتریالیزم" data-language-autonym="تۆرکجه" data-language-local-name="South Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>تۆرکجه</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%B8%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%A4%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A6" title="বস্তুবাদ – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="বস্তুবাদ" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বাংলা</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bjn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bjn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Materialisme" title="Materialisme – Banjar" lang="bjn" hreflang="bjn" data-title="Materialisme" data-language-autonym="Banjar" data-language-local-name="Banjar" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Banjar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-min-nan mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh-min-nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9Bi-bu%CC%8Dt-l%C5%ABn" title="Ûi-bu̍t-lūn – Minnan" lang="nan" hreflang="nan" data-title="Ûi-bu̍t-lūn" data-language-autonym="閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú" data-language-local-name="Minnan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ba mw-list-item"><a href="https://ba.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%BC" title="Материализм – Bashkir" lang="ba" hreflang="ba" data-title="Материализм" data-language-autonym="Башҡортса" data-language-local-name="Bashkir" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Башҡортса</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%8D%D1%80%D1%8B%D1%8F%D0%BB%D1%96%D0%B7%D0%BC" title="Матэрыялізм – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Матэрыялізм" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be-x-old mw-list-item"><a href="https://be-tarask.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%8D%D1%80%D1%8B%D1%8F%D0%BB%D1%96%D0%B7%D0%BC" title="Матэрыялізм – Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" lang="be-tarask" hreflang="be-tarask" data-title="Матэрыялізм" data-language-autonym="Беларуская (тарашкевіца)" data-language-local-name="Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская (тарашкевіца)</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B7%D1%8A%D0%BC" title="Материализъм – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Материализъм" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bar mw-list-item"><a href="https://bar.wikipedia.org/wiki/Materialismus" title="Materialismus – Bavarian" lang="bar" hreflang="bar" data-title="Materialismus" data-language-autonym="Boarisch" data-language-local-name="Bavarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Boarisch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bs mw-list-item"><a href="https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Materijalizam" title="Materijalizam – Bosnian" lang="bs" hreflang="bs" data-title="Materijalizam" data-language-autonym="Bosanski" data-language-local-name="Bosnian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bosanski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-br mw-list-item"><a href="https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danvezelouriezh" title="Danvezelouriezh – Breton" lang="br" hreflang="br" data-title="Danvezelouriezh" data-language-autonym="Brezhoneg" data-language-local-name="Breton" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Brezhoneg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Materialisme" title="Materialisme – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Materialisme" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Materialismus" title="Materialismus – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Materialismus" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sn mw-list-item"><a href="https://sn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mbayo" title="Mbayo – Shona" lang="sn" hreflang="sn" data-title="Mbayo" data-language-autonym="ChiShona" data-language-local-name="Shona" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ChiShona</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Materoliaeth" title="Materoliaeth – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Materoliaeth" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cymraeg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Materialisme" title="Materialisme – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Materialisme" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Materialismus" title="Materialismus – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Materialismus" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Materialism" title="Materialism – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Materialism" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A5%CE%BB%CE%B9%CF%83%CE%BC%CF%8C%CF%82" title="Υλισμός – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Υλισμός" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Materialismo" title="Materialismo – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Materialismo" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Materiismo" title="Materiismo – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Materiismo" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Materialismo" title="Materialismo – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Materialismo" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%87%E2%80%8C%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%B1%DB%8C" title="ماده‌باوری – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="ماده‌باوری" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hif mw-list-item"><a href="https://hif.wikipedia.org/wiki/Materialism" title="Materialism – Fiji Hindi" lang="hif" hreflang="hif" data-title="Materialism" data-language-autonym="Fiji Hindi" data-language-local-name="Fiji Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Fiji Hindi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mat%C3%A9rialisme" title="Matérialisme – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Matérialisme" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ga mw-list-item"><a href="https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%81bharachas" title="Ábharachas – Irish" lang="ga" hreflang="ga" data-title="Ábharachas" data-language-autonym="Gaeilge" data-language-local-name="Irish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gaeilge</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Materialismo" title="Materialismo – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Materialismo" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gan mw-list-item"><a href="https://gan.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%94%AF%E7%89%A9%E4%B8%BB%E7%BE%A9" title="唯物主義 – Gan" lang="gan" hreflang="gan" data-title="唯物主義" data-language-autonym="贛語" data-language-local-name="Gan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>贛語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%9C%A0%EB%AC%BC%EB%A1%A0" title="유물론 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="유물론" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%84%D5%A1%D5%BF%D5%A5%D6%80%D5%AB%D5%A1%D5%AC%D5%AB%D5%A6%D5%B4" title="Մատերիալիզմ – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Մատերիալիզմ" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AD%E0%A5%8C%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A6" title="भौतिकवाद – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="भौतिकवाद" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>हिन्दी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Materijalizam" title="Materijalizam – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Materijalizam" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ig mw-list-item"><a href="https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ak%E1%BB%A5k%E1%BB%8Dnd%E1%BB%A5%CC%80onye" title="Akụkọndụ̀onye – Igbo" lang="ig" hreflang="ig" data-title="Akụkọndụ̀onye" data-language-autonym="Igbo" data-language-local-name="Igbo" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Igbo</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ilo mw-list-item"><a href="https://ilo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Materialismo" title="Materialismo – Iloko" lang="ilo" hreflang="ilo" data-title="Materialismo" data-language-autonym="Ilokano" data-language-local-name="Iloko" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ilokano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Materialisme" title="Materialisme – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Materialisme" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efnishyggja" title="Efnishyggja – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="Efnishyggja" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Íslenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Materialismo" title="Materialismo – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Materialismo" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9E%D7%98%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%90%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%96%D7%9D" title="מטריאליזם – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="מטריאליזם" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-jv mw-list-item"><a href="https://jv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Materialisme" title="Materialisme – Javanese" lang="jv" hreflang="jv" data-title="Materialisme" data-language-autonym="Jawa" data-language-local-name="Javanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Jawa</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%9B%E1%83%90%E1%83%A2%E1%83%94%E1%83%A0%E1%83%98%E1%83%90%E1%83%9A%E1%83%98%E1%83%96%E1%83%9B%E1%83%98" title="მატერიალიზმი – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="მატერიალიზმი" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kk mw-list-item"><a href="https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%BC" title="Материализм – Kazakh" lang="kk" hreflang="kk" data-title="Материализм" data-language-autonym="Қазақша" data-language-local-name="Kazakh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Қазақша</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sw mw-list-item"><a href="https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uyakinifu" title="Uyakinifu – Swahili" lang="sw" hreflang="sw" data-title="Uyakinifu" data-language-autonym="Kiswahili" data-language-local-name="Swahili" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kiswahili</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ku mw-list-item"><a href="https://ku.wikipedia.org/wiki/Materyal%C3%AEzm" title="Materyalîzm – Kurdish" lang="ku" hreflang="ku" data-title="Materyalîzm" data-language-autonym="Kurdî" data-language-local-name="Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kurdî</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ky mw-list-item"><a href="https://ky.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%BC" title="Материализм – Kyrgyz" lang="ky" hreflang="ky" data-title="Материализм" data-language-autonym="Кыргызча" data-language-local-name="Kyrgyz" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Кыргызча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Materialismus" title="Materialismus – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Materialismus" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Materi%C4%81lisms" title="Materiālisms – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Materiālisms" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Materializmas" title="Materializmas – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Materializmas" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lg mw-list-item"><a href="https://lg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okusoosowaza_ebyenfuna_(materialism)" title="Okusoosowaza ebyenfuna (materialism) – Ganda" lang="lg" hreflang="lg" data-title="Okusoosowaza ebyenfuna (materialism)" data-language-autonym="Luganda" data-language-local-name="Ganda" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Luganda</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lmo mw-list-item"><a href="https://lmo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Materialism" title="Materialism – Lombard" lang="lmo" hreflang="lmo" data-title="Materialism" data-language-autonym="Lombard" data-language-local-name="Lombard" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lombard</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Materializmus" title="Materializmus – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Materializmus" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%98%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%BC" title="Материјализам – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="Материјализам" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Македонски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mg mw-list-item"><a href="https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Materialisma" title="Materialisma – Malagasy" lang="mg" hreflang="mg" data-title="Materialisma" data-language-autonym="Malagasy" data-language-local-name="Malagasy" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Malagasy</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ml mw-list-item"><a href="https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%AD%E0%B5%97%E0%B4%A4%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%95%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%A6%E0%B4%82" title="ഭൗതികവാദം – Malayalam" lang="ml" hreflang="ml" data-title="ഭൗതികവാദം" data-language-autonym="മലയാളം" data-language-local-name="Malayalam" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>മലയാളം</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%87" title="ماديه – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="ماديه" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mzn mw-list-item"><a href="https://mzn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%B3%D9%85" title="ماتریالیسم – Mazanderani" lang="mzn" hreflang="mzn" data-title="ماتریالیسم" data-language-autonym="مازِرونی" data-language-local-name="Mazanderani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مازِرونی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Materialisme" title="Materialisme – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Materialisme" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Melayu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-min mw-list-item"><a href="https://min.wikipedia.org/wiki/Materialisme" title="Materialisme – Minangkabau" lang="min" hreflang="min" data-title="Materialisme" data-language-autonym="Minangkabau" data-language-local-name="Minangkabau" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Minangkabau</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mn mw-list-item"><a href="https://mn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%BC" title="Материализм – Mongolian" lang="mn" hreflang="mn" data-title="Материализм" data-language-autonym="Монгол" data-language-local-name="Mongolian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Монгол</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Materialisme_(filosofie)" title="Materialisme (filosofie) – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Materialisme (filosofie)" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%94%AF%E7%89%A9%E8%AB%96" title="唯物論 – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="唯物論" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ce mw-list-item"><a href="https://ce.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%BC" title="Материализм – Chechen" lang="ce" hreflang="ce" data-title="Материализм" data-language-autonym="Нохчийн" data-language-local-name="Chechen" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Нохчийн</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Materialisme" title="Materialisme – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Materialisme" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Materialisme" title="Materialisme – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="Materialisme" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk nynorsk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-oc mw-list-item"><a href="https://oc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Materialisme" title="Materialisme – Occitan" lang="oc" hreflang="oc" data-title="Materialisme" data-language-autonym="Occitan" data-language-local-name="Occitan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Occitan</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-om mw-list-item"><a href="https://om.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanneettummaa" title="Wanneettummaa – Oromo" lang="om" hreflang="om" data-title="Wanneettummaa" data-language-autonym="Oromoo" data-language-local-name="Oromo" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Oromoo</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uz mw-list-item"><a href="https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Materializm" title="Materializm – Uzbek" lang="uz" hreflang="uz" data-title="Materializm" data-language-autonym="Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча" data-language-local-name="Uzbek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pa mw-list-item"><a href="https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A8%AA%E0%A8%A6%E0%A8%BE%E0%A8%B0%E0%A8%A5%E0%A8%B5%E0%A8%BE%E0%A8%A6" title="ਪਦਾਰਥਵਾਦ – Punjabi" lang="pa" hreflang="pa" data-title="ਪਦਾਰਥਵਾਦ" data-language-autonym="ਪੰਜਾਬੀ" data-language-local-name="Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ਪੰਜਾਬੀ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pnb mw-list-item"><a href="https://pnb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%DB%8C%D9%B9%DB%8C%D8%B1%DB%8C%D9%84%D8%B2%D9%85" title="میٹیریلزم – Western Punjabi" lang="pnb" hreflang="pnb" data-title="میٹیریلزم" data-language-autonym="پنجابی" data-language-local-name="Western Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>پنجابی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pap mw-list-item"><a href="https://pap.wikipedia.org/wiki/Materialismo" title="Materialismo – Papiamento" lang="pap" hreflang="pap" data-title="Materialismo" data-language-autonym="Papiamentu" data-language-local-name="Papiamento" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Papiamentu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pms mw-list-item"><a href="https://pms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Materialism" title="Materialism – Piedmontese" lang="pms" hreflang="pms" data-title="Materialism" data-language-autonym="Piemontèis" data-language-local-name="Piedmontese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Piemontèis</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nds mw-list-item"><a href="https://nds.wikipedia.org/wiki/Materialismus" title="Materialismus – Low German" lang="nds" hreflang="nds" data-title="Materialismus" data-language-autonym="Plattdüütsch" data-language-local-name="Low German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Plattdüütsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Materializm" title="Materializm – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Materializm" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Materialismo" title="Materialismo – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Materialismo" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kaa mw-list-item"><a href="https://kaa.wikipedia.org/wiki/Materializm" title="Materializm – Kara-Kalpak" lang="kaa" hreflang="kaa" data-title="Materializm" data-language-autonym="Qaraqalpaqsha" data-language-local-name="Kara-Kalpak" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Qaraqalpaqsha</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Materialism" title="Materialism – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Materialism" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-rue mw-list-item"><a href="https://rue.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%96%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%96%D0%B7%D0%BC" title="Матеріалізм – Rusyn" lang="rue" hreflang="rue" data-title="Матеріалізм" data-language-autonym="Русиньскый" data-language-local-name="Rusyn" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русиньскый</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%BC" title="Материализм – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Материализм" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sah mw-list-item"><a href="https://sah.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%BC" title="Материализм – Yakut" lang="sah" hreflang="sah" data-title="Материализм" data-language-autonym="Саха тыла" data-language-local-name="Yakut" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Саха тыла</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sq mw-list-item"><a href="https://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Materializmi" title="Materializmi – Albanian" lang="sq" hreflang="sq" data-title="Materializmi" data-language-autonym="Shqip" data-language-local-name="Albanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Shqip</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Materialism" title="Materialism – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="Materialism" 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navigation-not-searchable">For other uses of the term materialism, see <a href="/wiki/Materialism_(disambiguation)" class="mw-disambig" title="Materialism (disambiguation)">Materialism (disambiguation)</a>.</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p><p><b>Materialism</b> is a form of <a href="/wiki/Monism" title="Monism">philosophical monism</a> which holds that <a href="/wiki/Matter" title="Matter">matter</a> is the fundamental <a href="/wiki/Substance_theory" title="Substance theory">substance</a> in <a href="/wiki/Nature" title="Nature">nature</a>, and that all things, including <a href="/wiki/Mind" title="Mind">mental states</a> and <a href="/wiki/Consciousness" title="Consciousness">consciousness</a>, are results of <a href="/wiki/Material" title="Material">material</a> interactions of material things. According to philosophical materialism, mind and consciousness are caused by physical processes, such as the <a href="/wiki/Neurochemistry" title="Neurochemistry">neurochemistry</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Human_brain" title="Human brain">human brain</a> and <a href="/wiki/Nervous_system" title="Nervous system">nervous system</a>, without which they cannot exist. Materialism directly contrasts with monistic <a href="/wiki/Idealism" title="Idealism">idealism</a>, according to which consciousness is the fundamental substance of nature. </p><p>Materialism is closely related to <a href="/wiki/Physicalism" title="Physicalism">physicalism</a>—the view that all that exists is ultimately physical. Philosophical physicalism has evolved from materialism with the theories of the physical sciences to incorporate forms of physicality in addition to ordinary matter (e.g. <a href="/wiki/Spacetime" title="Spacetime">spacetime</a>, <a href="/wiki/Energy" title="Energy">physical energies</a> and <a href="/wiki/Force" title="Force">forces</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Exotic_matter" title="Exotic matter">exotic matter</a>). Thus, some prefer the term <i>physicalism</i> to <i>materialism</i>, while others use the terms as if they were <a href="/wiki/Synonym" title="Synonym">synonymous</a>. </p><p>Discoveries of neural correlates between consciousness and the brain are taken as empirical support for materialism, but some <a href="/wiki/Philosophy_of_mind" title="Philosophy of mind">philosophers of mind</a> find that association fallacious or consider it compatible with non-materialist ideas.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Alternative philosophies opposed or alternative to materialism or physicalism include idealism, <a href="/wiki/Pluralism_(philosophy)" title="Pluralism (philosophy)">pluralism</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dualism_(philosophy_of_mind)" class="mw-redirect" title="Dualism (philosophy of mind)">dualism</a>, <a href="/wiki/Panpsychism" title="Panpsychism">panpsychism</a>, and other forms of <a href="/wiki/Monism" title="Monism">monism</a>. <a href="/wiki/Epicureanism" title="Epicureanism">Epicureanism</a> is a philosophy of materialism from <a href="/wiki/Classical_antiquity" title="Classical antiquity">classical antiquity</a> that was a major forerunner of modern science. Though ostensibly a <a href="/wiki/Deist" class="mw-redirect" title="Deist">deist</a>, Epicurus affirmed the literal existence of the <a href="/wiki/Greek_gods" class="mw-redirect" title="Greek gods">Greek gods</a> in either some type of celestial "heaven" cognate from which they ruled the universe (if not on a literal Mount Olympus), and his philosophy promulgated <a href="/wiki/Atomism" title="Atomism">atomism</a>, while <a href="/wiki/Platonism" title="Platonism">Platonism</a> taught roughly the opposite, despite Plato's teaching of <a href="/wiki/Zeus" title="Zeus">Zeus</a> as <a href="/wiki/God" title="God">God</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Overview">Overview</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Materialism&amp;action=edit&amp;section=1" title="Edit section: Overview"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Nord_america.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/Nord_america.jpg/170px-Nord_america.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="213" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/Nord_america.jpg/255px-Nord_america.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/Nord_america.jpg/340px-Nord_america.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1886" data-file-height="2358" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Star" title="Star">Stars</a> and a <a href="/wiki/Nebula" title="Nebula">nebula</a>.</figcaption></figure> <p>Materialism belongs to the class of <a href="/wiki/Monist" class="mw-redirect" title="Monist">monist</a> <a href="/wiki/Ontology" title="Ontology">ontology</a>, and is thus different from ontological theories based on <a href="/wiki/Dualism_(philosophy_of_mind)" class="mw-redirect" title="Dualism (philosophy of mind)">dualism</a> or <a href="/wiki/Pluralism_(philosophy)" title="Pluralism (philosophy)">pluralism</a>. For singular explanations of the phenomenal reality, materialism is in contrast to <a href="/wiki/Idealism" title="Idealism">idealism</a>, <a href="/wiki/Neutral_monism" title="Neutral monism">neutral monism</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Spiritualism_(philosophy)" title="Spiritualism (philosophy)">spiritualism</a>. It can also contrast with <a href="/wiki/Phenomenalism" title="Phenomenalism">phenomenalism</a>, <a href="/wiki/Vitalism" title="Vitalism">vitalism</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Dual-aspect_monism" class="mw-redirect" title="Dual-aspect monism">dual-aspect monism</a>. Its materiality can, in some ways, be linked to the concept of <a href="/wiki/Determinism" title="Determinism">determinism</a>, as espoused by <a href="/wiki/Age_of_Enlightenment" title="Age of Enlightenment">Enlightenment</a> thinkers.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Despite the large number of philosophical schools and their nuances,<sup id="cite_ref-Edwards1972_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Edwards1972-4"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Priest1991_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Priest1991-5"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Novack1979_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Novack1979-6"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> all philosophies are said to fall into one of two primary categories, defined in contrast to each other: <i>idealism</i> and <i>materialism</i>.<style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1041539562">.mw-parser-output .citation{word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}</style><sup class="citation nobold" id="ref_anone"><a href="#endnote_anone">[a]</a></sup> The basic proposition of these two categories pertains to the nature of reality: the primary difference between them is how they answer two fundamental questions—what reality consists of, and how it originated. To idealists, spirit or mind or the objects of mind (<i>ideas</i>) are primary, and matter secondary. To materialists, matter is primary, and mind or spirit or ideas are secondary—the product of matter acting upon matter.<sup id="cite_ref-Novack1979_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Novack1979-6"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The materialist view is perhaps best understood in its opposition to the doctrines of immaterial substance applied to the mind historically by <a href="/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Descartes" title="René Descartes">René Descartes</a>; by itself, materialism says nothing about how material substance should be characterized. In practice, it is frequently assimilated to one variety of <a href="/wiki/Physicalism" title="Physicalism">physicalism</a> or another. </p><p>Modern philosophical materialists extend the definition of other scientifically observable entities such as <a href="/wiki/Energy" title="Energy">energy</a>, <a href="/wiki/Force" title="Force">forces</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Spacetime_continuum" class="mw-redirect" title="Spacetime continuum">spacetime continuum</a>; some philosophers, such as <a href="/wiki/Mary_Midgley" title="Mary Midgley">Mary Midgley</a>, suggest that the concept of "matter" is elusive and poorly defined.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>During the 19th century, <a href="/wiki/Karl_Marx" title="Karl Marx">Karl Marx</a> and <a href="/wiki/Friedrich_Engels" title="Friedrich Engels">Friedrich Engels</a> extended the concept of materialism to elaborate a <i><a href="/wiki/Materialist_conception_of_history" class="mw-redirect" title="Materialist conception of history">materialist conception of history</a></i> centered on the roughly empirical world of human activity (practice, including labor) and the <a href="/wiki/Institution" title="Institution">institutions</a> created, reproduced or destroyed by that activity. They also developed <a href="/wiki/Dialectical_materialism" title="Dialectical materialism">dialectical materialism</a>, by taking <a href="/wiki/Hegelian_dialectics" class="mw-redirect" title="Hegelian dialectics">Hegelian dialectics</a>, stripping them of their idealist aspects, and fusing them with materialism (see <a href="#Modern_philosophy">Modern philosophy</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Non-reductive_materialism">Non-reductive materialism</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Materialism&amp;action=edit&amp;section=2" title="Edit section: Non-reductive materialism"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Materialism is often associated with <a href="/wiki/Reduction_(philosophy)" class="mw-redirect" title="Reduction (philosophy)">reductionism</a>, according to which the objects or phenomena individuated at one level of description, if they are genuine, must be explicable in terms of the objects or phenomena at some other level of description—typically, at a more reduced level. </p><p><i>Non-reductive materialism</i> explicitly rejects this notion, taking the material constitution of all particulars to be consistent with the existence of real objects, properties or phenomena not explicable in the terms canonically used for the basic material constituents. <a href="/wiki/Jerry_Fodor" title="Jerry Fodor">Jerry Fodor</a> held this view, according to which empirical laws and explanations in "special sciences" like psychology or geology are invisible from the perspective of basic physics.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Materialism&amp;action=edit&amp;section=3" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Early_history"><span class="anchor" id="History"></span>Early history</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Materialism&amp;action=edit&amp;section=4" title="Edit section: Early history"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/History_of_metaphysical_naturalism" class="mw-redirect" title="History of metaphysical naturalism">History of metaphysical naturalism</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Before_Common_Era">Before Common Era</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Materialism&amp;action=edit&amp;section=5" title="Edit section: Before Common Era"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Pinacoteca_Querini_Stampalia_-_Leucippus_-_Luca_Giordano.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/Pinacoteca_Querini_Stampalia_-_Leucippus_-_Luca_Giordano.jpg/170px-Pinacoteca_Querini_Stampalia_-_Leucippus_-_Luca_Giordano.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="211" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/Pinacoteca_Querini_Stampalia_-_Leucippus_-_Luca_Giordano.jpg/255px-Pinacoteca_Querini_Stampalia_-_Leucippus_-_Luca_Giordano.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/Pinacoteca_Querini_Stampalia_-_Leucippus_-_Luca_Giordano.jpg/340px-Pinacoteca_Querini_Stampalia_-_Leucippus_-_Luca_Giordano.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4201" data-file-height="5221" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Leucippus" title="Leucippus">Leucippus</a> (4th century BC), father of <a href="/wiki/Atomism" title="Atomism">atomism</a> and teacher of <a href="/wiki/Democritus" title="Democritus">Democritus</a>. Painting by <a href="/wiki/Luca_Giordano" title="Luca Giordano">Luca Giordano</a>, circa 1653.</figcaption></figure> <p>Materialism developed, possibly independently, in several geographically separated regions of <a href="/wiki/Eurasia" title="Eurasia">Eurasia</a> during what <a href="/wiki/Karl_Jaspers" title="Karl Jaspers">Karl Jaspers</a> termed the <a href="/wiki/Axial_Age" title="Axial Age">Axial Age</a> (<abbr title="circa">c.</abbr>&#160;800–200&#160;BC). </p><p>In <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Indian_philosophy" class="mw-redirect" title="Ancient Indian philosophy">ancient Indian philosophy</a>, materialism developed around 600&#160;BC with the works of <a href="/wiki/Ajita_Kesakambali" title="Ajita Kesakambali">Ajita Kesakambali</a>, <a href="/wiki/Payasi" title="Payasi">Payasi</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kanada_(philosopher)" class="mw-redirect" title="Kanada (philosopher)">Kanada</a> and the proponents of the <a href="/wiki/C%C4%81rv%C4%81ka" class="mw-redirect" title="Cārvāka">Cārvāka</a> school of philosophy. Kanada became one of the early proponents of <a href="/wiki/Atomism" title="Atomism">atomism</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Nyaya" title="Nyaya">Nyaya</a>–<a href="/wiki/Vaisesika" class="mw-redirect" title="Vaisesika">Vaisesika</a> school (c.&#160;600–100&#160;BC) developed one of the earliest forms of atomism (although their proofs of God and their positing that consciousness was not material precludes labelling them as materialists). <a href="/wiki/Buddhist_atomism" title="Buddhist atomism">Buddhist atomism</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Jainism" title="Jainism">Jaina</a> school continued the atomic tradition.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greek_philosophy" title="Ancient Greek philosophy">Ancient Greek</a> <a href="/wiki/Atomists" class="mw-redirect" title="Atomists">atomists</a> like <a href="/wiki/Leucippus" title="Leucippus">Leucippus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Democritus" title="Democritus">Democritus</a> and <a href="/wiki/Epicurus" title="Epicurus">Epicurus</a> prefigure later materialists. The Latin poem <i><a href="/wiki/De_Rerum_Natura" class="mw-redirect" title="De Rerum Natura">De Rerum Natura</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Lucretius" title="Lucretius">Lucretius</a> (99&#160;–&#160;c.&#160;55&#160;BC) reflects the <a href="/wiki/Mechanism_(philosophy)" title="Mechanism (philosophy)">mechanistic</a> philosophy of Democritus and Epicurus. According to this view, all that exists is matter and void, and all phenomena result from different motions and conglomerations of base material particles called <i>atoms</i> (literally "indivisibles"). <i>De Rerum Natura</i> provides mechanistic explanations for phenomena such as erosion, evaporation, wind, and sound. Famous principles like "nothing can touch body but body" first appeared in Lucretius's work. Democritus and Epicurus did not espouse a monist ontology, instead espousing the ontological separation of matter and space (i.e. that space is "another kind" of being).<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">&#91;<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (June 2019)">citation needed</span></a></i>&#93;</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Early_Common_Era">Early Common Era</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Materialism&amp;action=edit&amp;section=6" title="Edit section: Early Common Era"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Wang_Chong" title="Wang Chong">Wang Chong</a> (27&#160;– c.&#160;100&#160;AD) was a Chinese thinker of the early <a href="/wiki/Common_Era" title="Common Era">Common Era</a> said to be a materialist.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Later Indian materialist <a href="/wiki/Jayaraashi_Bhatta" class="mw-redirect" title="Jayaraashi Bhatta">Jayaraashi Bhatta</a> (6th century) in his work <i>Tattvopaplavasimha</i> (<i>The Upsetting of All Principles</i>) refuted the <a href="/wiki/Ny%C4%81ya_S%C5%ABtras" title="Nyāya Sūtras">Nyāya Sūtra</a> epistemology. The materialistic <a href="/wiki/C%C4%81rv%C4%81ka" class="mw-redirect" title="Cārvāka">Cārvāka</a> philosophy appears to have died out some time after 1400; when <a href="/wiki/Madhavacharya_of_Sringeri" class="mw-redirect" title="Madhavacharya of Sringeri">Madhavacharya</a> compiled <i>Sarva-darśana-samgraha</i> (<i>A Digest of All Philosophies</i>) in the 14th century, he had no Cārvāka (or Lokāyata) text to quote from or refer to.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In early 12th-century <a href="/wiki/Al-Andalus" title="Al-Andalus">al-Andalus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Early_Islamic_philosophy" title="Early Islamic philosophy">Arabian philosopher</a> <a href="/wiki/Ibn_Tufail" class="mw-redirect" title="Ibn Tufail">Ibn Tufail</a> (<abbr title="also known as">a.k.a.</abbr>&#160;Abubacer) discussed materialism in his <a href="/wiki/Philosophical_novel" class="mw-redirect" title="Philosophical novel">philosophical novel</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Hayy_ibn_Yaqdhan" title="Hayy ibn Yaqdhan">Hayy ibn Yaqdhan</a></i> (<i>Philosophus Autodidactus</i>), while vaguely foreshadowing <a href="/wiki/Historical_materialism" title="Historical materialism">historical materialism</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Urvoy_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Urvoy-13"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Modern_philosophy">Modern philosophy</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Materialism&amp;action=edit&amp;section=7" title="Edit section: Modern philosophy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Lucretius_pointing_to_the_casus.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/Lucretius_pointing_to_the_casus.jpg/170px-Lucretius_pointing_to_the_casus.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="277" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/Lucretius_pointing_to_the_casus.jpg/255px-Lucretius_pointing_to_the_casus.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/Lucretius_pointing_to_the_casus.jpg/340px-Lucretius_pointing_to_the_casus.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1965" data-file-height="3204" /></a><figcaption>Atomists proposed that the universe consists of atoms moving in space. <i><a href="/wiki/De_rerum_natura" title="De rerum natura">Of the Nature of Things</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Lucretius" title="Lucretius">Lucretius</a>, 1682.</figcaption></figure> <p>In France, <a href="/wiki/Pierre_Gassendi" title="Pierre Gassendi">Pierre Gassendi</a> (1592–1665)<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> represented the materialist tradition in opposition to the attempts of <a href="/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Descartes" title="René Descartes">René Descartes</a> (1596–1650) to provide the <a href="/wiki/Natural_sciences" class="mw-redirect" title="Natural sciences">natural sciences</a> with dualist foundations. There followed the materialist and <a href="/wiki/Atheism" title="Atheism">atheist</a> <i>abbé</i> <a href="/wiki/Jean_Meslier" title="Jean Meslier">Jean Meslier</a> (1664–1729), along with the <a href="/wiki/French_materialism" title="French materialism">French materialists</a>: <a href="/wiki/Julien_Offray_de_La_Mettrie" title="Julien Offray de La Mettrie">Julien Offray de La Mettrie</a> (1709–1751), <a href="/wiki/Denis_Diderot" title="Denis Diderot">Denis Diderot</a> (1713–1784), <a href="/wiki/%C3%89tienne_Bonnot_de_Condillac" title="Étienne Bonnot de Condillac">Étienne Bonnot de Condillac</a> (1714–1780), <a href="/wiki/Claude_Adrien_Helv%C3%A9tius" title="Claude Adrien Helvétius">Claude Adrien Helvétius</a> (1715–1771), German-French <a href="/wiki/Baron_d%27Holbach" title="Baron d&#39;Holbach">Baron d'Holbach</a> (1723–1789), and other French <a href="/wiki/The_Enlightenment" class="mw-redirect" title="The Enlightenment">Enlightenment</a> thinkers.<sup id="cite_ref-Mahan_Friedrich_2003_p._588_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Mahan_Friedrich_2003_p._588-15"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In England, materialism was developed in the philosophies of <a href="/wiki/Francis_Bacon" title="Francis Bacon">Francis Bacon</a> (1561–1626), <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Hobbes" title="Thomas Hobbes">Thomas Hobbes</a> (1588–1679),<sup id="cite_ref-SEP_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SEP-16"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/John_Locke" title="John Locke">John Locke</a> (1632–1704).<sup id="cite_ref-Henry_2012_p._24_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Henry_2012_p._24-17"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Scottish_Enlightenment" title="Scottish Enlightenment">Scottish Enlightenment</a> philosopher <a href="/wiki/David_Hume" title="David Hume">David Hume</a> (1711–1776) became one of the most important materialist philosophers in the 18th century.<sup id="cite_ref-Brown_Ladyman_2019_p._18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Brown_Ladyman_2019_p.-18"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/John_%22Walking%22_Stewart" class="mw-redirect" title="John &quot;Walking&quot; Stewart">John "Walking" Stewart</a> (1747–1822) believed matter has a <a href="/wiki/Moral" title="Moral">moral</a> dimension, which had a major impact on the philosophical poetry of <a href="/wiki/William_Wordsworth" title="William Wordsworth">William Wordsworth</a> (1770–1850). </p><p>In <a href="/wiki/Late_modern_philosophy" class="mw-redirect" title="Late modern philosophy">late modern philosophy</a>, German atheist <a href="/wiki/Anthropologist" title="Anthropologist">anthropologist</a> <a href="/wiki/Ludwig_Feuerbach" title="Ludwig Feuerbach">Ludwig Feuerbach</a> signaled a new turn in materialism in his 1841 book <i><a href="/wiki/The_Essence_of_Christianity" title="The Essence of Christianity">The Essence of Christianity</a></i>, which presented a <a href="/wiki/Humanism" title="Humanism">humanist</a> account of religion as the outward projection of man's inward nature. Feuerbach introduced <b>anthropological materialism</b>, a version of materialism that views materialist anthropology as the <a href="/wiki/Universal_science" title="Universal science">universal science</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Feuerbach's variety of materialism heavily influenced <a href="/wiki/Karl_Marx" title="Karl Marx">Karl Marx</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> who in the late 19th century elaborated the concept of <a href="/wiki/Historical_materialism" title="Historical materialism">historical materialism</a>—the basis for what Marx and <a href="/wiki/Friedrich_Engels" title="Friedrich Engels">Friedrich Engels</a> outlined as <i><a href="/wiki/Scientific_socialism" title="Scientific socialism">scientific socialism</a></i>: </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>The materialist conception of history starts from the proposition that the production of the means to support human life and, next to production, the exchange of things produced, is the basis of all social structure; that in every society that has appeared in history, the manner in which wealth is distributed and society divided into classes or orders is dependent upon what is produced, how it is produced, and how the products are exchanged. From this point of view, the final causes of all social changes and political revolutions are to be sought, not in men's brains, not in men's better insights into eternal truth and justice, but in changes in the modes of production and exchange. They are to be sought, not in the philosophy, but in the economics of each particular epoch.</p><div class="templatequotecite">—&#8202;<cite>Friedrich Engels, <i>Socialism: Scientific and Utopian</i> (1880)</cite></div></blockquote> <p>Through his <i><a href="/wiki/Dialectics_of_Nature" title="Dialectics of Nature">Dialectics of Nature</a></i> (1883), Engels later developed a "materialist dialectic" <a href="/wiki/Philosophy_of_nature" class="mw-redirect" title="Philosophy of nature">philosophy of nature</a>, a worldview that <a href="/wiki/Georgi_Plekhanov" title="Georgi Plekhanov">Georgi Plekhanov</a>, the father of Russian <a href="/wiki/Marxism" title="Marxism">Marxism</a>, called <i><a href="/wiki/Dialectical_materialism" title="Dialectical materialism">dialectical materialism</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In early 20th-century <a href="/wiki/Russian_philosophy" title="Russian philosophy">Russian philosophy</a>, <a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Lenin" title="Vladimir Lenin">Vladimir Lenin</a> further developed dialectical materialism in his 1909 book <i><a href="/wiki/Materialism_and_Empirio-criticism" title="Materialism and Empirio-criticism">Materialism and Empirio-criticism</a></i>, which connects his opponents' political conceptions to their anti-materialist philosophies. </p><p>A more <a href="/wiki/Metaphysical_naturalism" title="Metaphysical naturalism">naturalist</a>-oriented materialist school of thought that developed in the mid-19th century was <b>German materialism</b>, which included <a href="/wiki/Ludwig_B%C3%BCchner" title="Ludwig Büchner">Ludwig Büchner</a> (1824–1899), the Dutch-born <a href="/wiki/Jacob_Moleschott" title="Jacob Moleschott">Jacob Moleschott</a> (1822–1893), and <a href="/wiki/Carl_Vogt" title="Carl Vogt">Carl Vogt</a> (1817–1895),<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> even though they had different views on core issues such as the evolution and the origins of life.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Contemporary_history">Contemporary history</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Materialism&amp;action=edit&amp;section=8" title="Edit section: Contemporary history"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Contemporary_philosophy" title="Contemporary philosophy">Contemporary philosophy</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Analytic_philosophy">Analytic philosophy</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Materialism&amp;action=edit&amp;section=9" title="Edit section: Analytic philosophy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Physicalism" title="Physicalism">Physicalism</a> and <a href="/wiki/Scientific_materialism" class="mw-redirect" title="Scientific materialism">Scientific materialism</a></div> <p>Contemporary <a href="/wiki/Analytic_philosopher" class="mw-redirect" title="Analytic philosopher">analytic philosophers</a> (e.g. <a href="/wiki/Daniel_Dennett" title="Daniel Dennett">Daniel Dennett</a>, <a href="/wiki/Willard_Van_Orman_Quine" title="Willard Van Orman Quine">Willard Van Orman Quine</a>, <a href="/wiki/Donald_Davidson_(philosopher)" title="Donald Davidson (philosopher)">Donald Davidson</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Jerry_Fodor" title="Jerry Fodor">Jerry Fodor</a>) operate within a broadly physicalist or <a href="/wiki/Scientific_materialist" class="mw-redirect" title="Scientific materialist">scientific materialist</a> framework, producing rival accounts of how best to accommodate the <a href="/wiki/Mind" title="Mind">mind</a>, including <a href="/wiki/Functionalism_(philosophy_of_mind)" title="Functionalism (philosophy of mind)">functionalism</a>, <a href="/wiki/Anomalous_monism" title="Anomalous monism">anomalous monism</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Identity_theory_of_mind" class="mw-redirect" title="Identity theory of mind">identity theory</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-StandfordEM_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-StandfordEM-25"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Scientific materialism is often synonymous with, and has typically been described as, a <a href="/wiki/Reductive_materialism" class="mw-redirect" title="Reductive materialism">reductive materialism</a>. In the early 21st century, <a href="/wiki/Paul_Churchland" title="Paul Churchland">Paul</a> and <a href="/wiki/Patricia_Churchland" title="Patricia Churchland">Patricia Churchland</a><sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> advocated a radically contrasting position (at least in regard to certain hypotheses): <a href="/wiki/Eliminative_materialism" title="Eliminative materialism">eliminative materialism</a>. Eliminative materialism holds that some mental phenomena simply do not exist at all, and that talk of such phenomena reflects a spurious "<a href="/wiki/Folk_psychology" title="Folk psychology">folk psychology</a>" and <a href="/wiki/Introspection_illusion" title="Introspection illusion">introspection illusion</a>. A materialist of this variety might believe that a concept like "belief" has no basis in fact (e.g. the way folk science speaks of demon-caused illnesses). </p><p>With reductive materialism at one end of a continuum (our theories will <i>reduce</i> to facts) and eliminative materialism at the other (certain theories will need to be <i>eliminated</i> in light of new facts), <a href="/wiki/Revisionary_materialism" class="mw-redirect" title="Revisionary materialism">revisionary materialism</a> is somewhere in the middle.<sup id="cite_ref-StandfordEM_25-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-StandfordEM-25"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Continental_philosophy">Continental philosophy</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Materialism&amp;action=edit&amp;section=10" title="Edit section: Continental philosophy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/New_materialisms" class="mw-redirect" title="New materialisms">New materialisms</a>, <a href="/wiki/Speculative_materialism" class="mw-redirect" title="Speculative materialism">Speculative materialism</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Transcendental_materialism" class="mw-redirect" title="Transcendental materialism">Transcendental materialism</a></div> <p>Contemporary <a href="/wiki/Continental_philosopher" class="mw-redirect" title="Continental philosopher">continental philosopher</a> <a href="/wiki/Gilles_Deleuze" title="Gilles Deleuze">Gilles Deleuze</a> has attempted to rework and strengthen classical materialist ideas.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Contemporary theorists such as <a href="/wiki/Manuel_DeLanda" title="Manuel DeLanda">Manuel DeLanda</a>, working with this reinvigorated materialism, have come to be classified as <i>new materialists</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <b>New materialism</b> has become its own subfield, with courses on it at major universities, as well as numerous conferences, edited collections and monographs devoted to it. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Jane_Bennett_(political_theorist)" title="Jane Bennett (political theorist)">Jane Bennett</a>'s 2010 book <i>Vibrant Matter</i> has been particularly instrumental in bringing theories of monist ontology and <a href="/wiki/Vitalism" title="Vitalism">vitalism</a> back into a critical theoretical fold dominated by <a href="/wiki/Poststructuralist" class="mw-redirect" title="Poststructuralist">poststructuralist</a> theories of language and discourse.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Scholars such as <a href="/wiki/Mel_Y._Chen" title="Mel Y. Chen">Mel Y. Chen</a> and Zakiyyah Iman Jackson have critiqued this body of new materialist literature for neglecting to consider the materiality of race and gender in particular.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Métis scholar <a href="/wiki/Zoe_Todd" title="Zoe Todd">Zoe Todd</a>, as well as <a href="/wiki/Mohawk_people" title="Mohawk people">Mohawk</a> (Bear Clan, Six Nations) and <a href="/wiki/Anishinaabe" title="Anishinaabe">Anishinaabe</a> scholar Vanessa Watts,<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> query the colonial orientation of the race for a "new" materialism.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Watts in particular describes the tendency to regard matter as a subject of feminist or philosophical care as a tendency too invested in the reanimation of a <a href="/wiki/Eurocentrism" title="Eurocentrism">Eurocentric</a> tradition of inquiry at the expense of an Indigenous ethic of responsibility.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Other scholars, such as Helene Vosters, echo their concerns and have questioned whether there is anything particularly "new" about "new materialism", as Indigenous and other <a href="/wiki/Animism" title="Animism">animist</a> ontologies have attested to what might be called the "vibrancy of matter" for centuries.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Others, such as <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Nail" title="Thomas Nail">Thomas Nail</a>, have critiqued "vitalist" versions of new materialism for depoliticizing "flat ontology" and being ahistorical.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Quentin_Meillassoux" title="Quentin Meillassoux">Quentin Meillassoux</a> proposed <i>speculative materialism</i>, a <a href="/wiki/Post-Kantian" class="mw-redirect" title="Post-Kantian">post-Kantian</a> return to <a href="/wiki/David_Hume" title="David Hume">David Hume</a> also based on materialist ideas.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Defining_&quot;matter&quot;"><span id="Defining_.22matter.22"></span>Defining "matter"</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Materialism&amp;action=edit&amp;section=11" title="Edit section: Defining &quot;matter&quot;"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The nature and definition of <i>matter</i>—like other key concepts in science and philosophy—have occasioned much debate:<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li>Is there a single kind of matter (<i><a href="/wiki/Hyle" class="mw-redirect" title="Hyle">hyle</a></i>) that everything is made of, or are there multiple kinds?</li> <li>Is matter a continuous substance capable of expressing multiple forms (<i><a href="/wiki/Hylomorphism" title="Hylomorphism">hylomorphism</a></i>)<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> or a number of discrete, unchanging constituents (<a href="/wiki/Atomism" title="Atomism">atomism</a>)?<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></li> <li>Does matter have intrinsic properties (<i><a href="/wiki/Substance_theory" title="Substance theory">substance theory</a></i>)<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> or lack them (<i><a href="/wiki/Prima_materia" title="Prima materia">prima materia</a></i>)?</li></ul> <p>One challenge to the conventional concept of matter as tangible "stuff" came with the rise of <a href="/wiki/Field_physics" class="mw-redirect" title="Field physics">field physics</a> in the 19th century. <a href="/wiki/Special_relativity" title="Special relativity">Relativity</a> shows that matter and energy (including the spatially distributed energy of fields) are interchangeable. This enables the ontological view that energy is <i>prima materia</i> and matter is one of its forms. In contrast, the <a href="/wiki/Standard_Model" title="Standard Model">Standard Model</a> of particle physics uses <a href="/wiki/Quantum_field_theory" title="Quantum field theory">quantum field theory</a> to describe all interactions. On this view it could be said that fields are <i>prima materia</i> and the energy is a property of the field.<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">&#91;<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (June 2019)">citation needed</span></a></i>&#93;</sup> </p><p>According to the dominant cosmological model, the <a href="/wiki/Lambda-CDM_model" title="Lambda-CDM model">Lambda-CDM model</a>, less than 5% of the universe's energy density is made up of the "matter" the Standard Model describes, and most of the universe is composed of <a href="/wiki/Dark_matter" title="Dark matter">dark matter</a> and <a href="/wiki/Dark_energy" title="Dark energy">dark energy</a>, with little agreement among scientists about what these are made of.<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>With the advent of quantum physics, some scientists believed the concept of matter had merely changed, while others believed the conventional position could no longer be maintained. <a href="/wiki/Werner_Heisenberg" title="Werner Heisenberg">Werner Heisenberg</a> said: "The ontology of materialism rested upon the illusion that the kind of existence, the direct 'actuality' of the world around us, can be extrapolated into the atomic range. This extrapolation, however, is impossible...atoms are not things."<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The concept of matter has changed in response to new scientific discoveries. Thus materialism has no definite content independent of the particular theory of matter on which it is based. According to <a href="/wiki/Noam_Chomsky" title="Noam Chomsky">Noam Chomsky</a>, any <a href="/wiki/Property_(philosophy)" title="Property (philosophy)">property</a> can be considered material, if one defines matter such that it has that property.<sup id="cite_ref-Chomsky,_Noam_2000_47-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Chomsky,_Noam_2000-47"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Gustavo_Bueno#Philosophical_Materialism" title="Gustavo Bueno">philosophical materialist</a> <a href="/wiki/Gustavo_Bueno" title="Gustavo Bueno">Gustavo Bueno</a> uses a more precise term than <i>matter</i>, the <i>stroma.</i><sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In <a href="/wiki/Materialism_and_Empirio-criticism" title="Materialism and Empirio-criticism"><i>Materialism and Empirio-Criticism</i></a>, Lenin argues that the truth of <a href="/wiki/Dialectical_materialism" title="Dialectical materialism">dialectical materialism</a> is unrelated to any particular understanding of matter. To him, such changes actually confirm the dialectical form of materialism.<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Physicalism">Physicalism</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Materialism&amp;action=edit&amp;section=12" title="Edit section: Physicalism"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Physicalism" title="Physicalism">Physicalism</a></div><p> George Stack distinguishes between materialism and physicalism: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"></p><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>In the twentieth century, physicalism has emerged out of positivism. Physicalism restricts meaningful statements to physical bodies or processes that are verifiable or in principle verifiable. It is an empirical hypothesis that is subject to revision and, hence, lacks the dogmatic stance of classical materialism. <a href="/wiki/Herbert_Feigl" title="Herbert Feigl">Herbert Feigl</a> defended physicalism in the United States and consistently held that mental states are brain states and that mental terms have the same referent as physical terms. The twentieth century has witnessed many materialist theories of the mental, and much debate surrounding them.<sup id="cite_ref-Craig1998_50-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Craig1998-50"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>But not all conceptions of physicalism are tied to verificationist theories of meaning or direct realist accounts of perception. Rather, physicalists believe that no "element of reality" is missing from the mathematical formalism of our best description of the world. "Materialist" physicalists also believe that the formalism describes fields of insentience. In other words, the intrinsic nature of the physical is non-experiential.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">&#91;<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (June 2019)">citation needed</span></a></i>&#93;</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Religious_and_spiritual_views">Religious and spiritual views</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Materialism&amp;action=edit&amp;section=13" title="Edit section: Religious and spiritual views"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Christianity">Christianity</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Materialism&amp;action=edit&amp;section=14" title="Edit section: Christianity"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Materialism_and_Christianity" title="Materialism and Christianity">Materialism and Christianity</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Hinduism_and_Transcendental_Club">Hinduism and <a href="/wiki/Transcendental_Club" title="Transcendental Club">Transcendental Club</a></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Materialism&amp;action=edit&amp;section=15" title="Edit section: Hinduism and Transcendental Club"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Vaisheshika" title="Vaisheshika">Vaisheshika</a></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1251242444">.mw-parser-output .ambox{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-left:10px solid #36c;background-color:#fbfbfb;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+link+.ambox{margin-top:-1px}html body.mediawiki .mw-parser-output .ambox.mbox-small-left{margin:4px 1em 4px 0;overflow:hidden;width:238px;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em}.mw-parser-output .ambox-speedy{border-left:10px solid #b32424;background-color:#fee7e6}.mw-parser-output .ambox-delete{border-left:10px solid #b32424}.mw-parser-output .ambox-content{border-left:10px solid #f28500}.mw-parser-output .ambox-style{border-left:10px solid #fc3}.mw-parser-output .ambox-move{border-left:10px solid #9932cc}.mw-parser-output .ambox-protection{border-left:10px solid #a2a9b1}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-text{border:none;padding:0.25em 0.5em;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image{border:none;padding:2px 0 2px 0.5em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-imageright{border:none;padding:2px 0.5em 2px 0;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-empty-cell{border:none;padding:0;width:1px}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image-div{width:52px}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .ambox{margin:0 10%}}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .ambox{display:none!important}}</style><table class="box-Expand_section plainlinks metadata ambox mbox-small-left ambox-content" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="[icon]" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg/20px-Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg/30px-Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg/40px-Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="44" data-file-height="31" /></a></span></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>needs expansion</b>. You can help by <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Materialism&amp;action=edit&amp;section=">adding to it</a>. <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">November 2022</span>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>Most <a href="/wiki/Hinduism" title="Hinduism">Hindus</a> and <a href="/wiki/Transcendentalism" title="Transcendentalism">transcendentalists</a> regard all matter as an illusion, or <a href="/wiki/Maya_(illusion)" class="mw-redirect" title="Maya (illusion)"><i>maya</i></a>, blinding humans from the truth. Transcendental experiences like the perception of <a href="/wiki/Brahman" title="Brahman">Brahman</a> are considered to destroy the illusion.<sup id="cite_ref-Maya_51-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Maya-51"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Criticism_and_alternatives">Criticism and alternatives</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Materialism&amp;action=edit&amp;section=16" title="Edit section: Criticism and alternatives"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="From_contemporary_physicists">From contemporary physicists</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Materialism&amp;action=edit&amp;section=17" title="Edit section: From contemporary physicists"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Rudolf_Peierls" title="Rudolf Peierls">Rudolf Peierls</a>, a physicist who played a major role in the <a href="/wiki/Manhattan_Project" title="Manhattan Project">Manhattan Project</a>, rejected materialism: "The premise that you can describe in terms of physics the whole function of a human being<span class="nowrap">&#160;</span>... including knowledge and consciousness, is untenable. There is still something missing."<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Erwin_Schr%C3%B6dinger" title="Erwin Schrödinger">Erwin Schrödinger</a> said, "Consciousness cannot be accounted for in physical terms. For consciousness is absolutely fundamental. It cannot be accounted for in terms of anything else."<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Werner_Heisenberg" title="Werner Heisenberg">Werner Heisenberg</a> wrote: "The <a href="/wiki/Ontology" title="Ontology">ontology</a> of materialism rested upon the illusion that the kind of existence, the direct 'actuality' of the world around us, can be extrapolated into the atomic range. This extrapolation, however, is impossible<span class="nowrap">&#160;</span>... Atoms are not things."<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Quantum_mechanics">Quantum mechanics</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Materialism&amp;action=edit&amp;section=18" title="Edit section: Quantum mechanics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Some 20th-century physicists (e.g., <a href="/wiki/Eugene_Wigner" title="Eugene Wigner">Eugene Wigner</a><sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Henry_Stapp" title="Henry Stapp">Henry Stapp</a>),<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and some modern physicists and science writers (e.g., <a href="/wiki/Stephen_Barr" title="Stephen Barr">Stephen Barr</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Paul_Davies" title="Paul Davies">Paul Davies</a>, and <a href="/wiki/John_Gribbin" title="John Gribbin">John Gribbin</a>) have argued that materialism is flawed due to certain recent findings in physics, such as <a href="/wiki/Quantum_mechanics" title="Quantum mechanics">quantum mechanics</a> and <a href="/wiki/Chaos_theory" title="Chaos theory">chaos theory</a>. According to Gribbin and Davies (1991): </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>Then came our Quantum theory, which totally transformed our image of matter. The old assumption that the microscopic world of atoms was simply a scaled-down version of the everyday world had to be abandoned. Newton's deterministic machine was replaced by a shadowy and paradoxical conjunction of waves and particles, governed by the laws of chance, rather than the rigid rules of causality. An extension of the quantum theory goes beyond even this; it paints a picture in which solid matter dissolves away, to be replaced by weird excitations and vibrations of invisible field energy. Quantum physics undermines materialism because it reveals that matter has far less "substance" than we might believe. But another development goes even further by demolishing Newton's image of matter as inert lumps. This development is the theory of chaos, which has recently gained widespread attention.</p><div class="templatequotecite">—&#8202;<cite>Paul Davies and John Gribbin, <i>The Matter Myth</i>, Chapter 1: "The Death of Materialism"</cite></div></blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Digital_physics">Digital physics</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Materialism&amp;action=edit&amp;section=19" title="Edit section: Digital physics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The objections of Davies and Gribbin are shared by proponents of <a href="/wiki/Digital_physics" title="Digital physics">digital physics</a>, who view information rather than matter as fundamental. The physicist and proponent of digital physics <a href="/wiki/John_Archibald_Wheeler" title="John Archibald Wheeler">John Archibald Wheeler</a> wrote, "all matter and all things physical are information-theoretic in origin and this is a participatory universe."<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Some founders of quantum theory, such as <a href="/wiki/Max_Planck" title="Max Planck">Max Planck</a>, shared their objections. He wrote: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>As a man who has devoted his whole life to the most clear headed science, to the study of matter, I can tell you as a result of my research about atoms this much: There is no matter as such. All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force which brings the particle of an atom to vibration and holds this most minute solar system of the atom together. We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter.</p><div class="templatequotecite">—&#8202;<cite>Max Planck, <i>Das Wesen der Materie</i> (1944)</cite></div></blockquote> <p><a href="/wiki/James_Jeans" title="James Jeans">James Jeans</a> concurred with Planck, saying, "The Universe begins to look more like a great thought than like a great machine. Mind no longer appears to be an accidental intruder into the realm of matter."<sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Philosophical_objections">Philosophical objections</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Materialism&amp;action=edit&amp;section=20" title="Edit section: Philosophical objections"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the <i><a href="/wiki/Critique_of_Pure_Reason" title="Critique of Pure Reason">Critique of Pure Reason</a></i>, <a href="/wiki/Immanuel_Kant" title="Immanuel Kant">Immanuel Kant</a> argued against materialism in defending his <a href="/wiki/Transcendental_idealism" title="Transcendental idealism">transcendental idealism</a> (as well as offering arguments against <a href="/wiki/Subjective_idealism" title="Subjective idealism">subjective idealism</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mind%E2%80%93body_dualism" title="Mind–body dualism">mind–body dualism</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> But Kant argues that change and time require an enduring substrate.<sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Postmodern" class="mw-redirect" title="Postmodern">Postmodern</a>/<a href="/wiki/Poststructuralist" class="mw-redirect" title="Poststructuralist">poststructuralist</a> thinkers also express skepticism about any all-encompassing metaphysical scheme. Philosopher <a href="/wiki/Mary_Midgley" title="Mary Midgley">Mary Midgley</a><sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> argues that materialism is a <a href="/wiki/Self-refuting_idea" title="Self-refuting idea">self-refuting idea</a>, at least in its <a href="/wiki/Eliminative_materialism" title="Eliminative materialism">eliminative materialist</a> form.<sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Varieties_of_idealism">Varieties of idealism</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Materialism&amp;action=edit&amp;section=21" title="Edit section: Varieties of idealism"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Arguments for <a href="/wiki/Idealism" title="Idealism">idealism</a>, such as those of <a href="/wiki/Hegel" class="mw-redirect" title="Hegel">Hegel</a> and <a href="/wiki/George_Berkeley" title="George Berkeley">Berkeley</a>, often take the form of an argument against materialism; indeed, Berkeley's idealism was called <i><a href="/wiki/Immaterialism" class="mw-redirect" title="Immaterialism">immaterialism</a></i>. Now, matter can be argued to be redundant, as in <a href="/wiki/Bundle_theory" title="Bundle theory">bundle theory</a>, and mind-independent properties can, in turn, be reduced to subjective <a href="/wiki/Percept" class="mw-redirect" title="Percept">percepts</a>. Berkeley gives an example of the latter by pointing out that it is impossible to gather direct evidence of matter, as there is no direct experience of matter; all that is experienced is perception, whether internal or external. As such, matter's existence can only be inferred from the apparent (perceived) stability of perceptions; it finds absolutely no evidence in direct experience.<sup id="cite_ref-69" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-69"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>If matter and energy are seen as necessary to explain the physical world, but incapable of explaining mind, <a href="/wiki/Dualism_(philosophy_of_mind)" class="mw-redirect" title="Dualism (philosophy of mind)">dualism</a> results. <a href="/wiki/Emergence" title="Emergence">Emergence</a>, <a href="/wiki/Holism" title="Holism">holism</a> and <a href="/wiki/Process_philosophy" title="Process philosophy">process philosophy</a> seek to ameliorate the perceived shortcomings of traditional (especially <a href="/wiki/Mechanism_(philosophy)" title="Mechanism (philosophy)">mechanistic</a>) materialism without abandoning materialism entirely.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">&#91;<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (June 2019)">citation needed</span></a></i>&#93;</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Materialism_as_methodology">Materialism as methodology</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Materialism&amp;action=edit&amp;section=22" title="Edit section: Materialism as methodology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Some critics object to materialism as part of an overly skeptical, narrow or <a href="/wiki/Reductionism" title="Reductionism">reductivist</a> approach to theorizing, rather than to the ontological claim that matter is the only substance. <a href="/wiki/Particle_physics" title="Particle physics">Particle physicist</a> and Anglican <a href="/wiki/Theology" title="Theology">theologian</a> <a href="/wiki/John_Polkinghorne" title="John Polkinghorne">John Polkinghorne</a> objects to what he calls <i>promissory materialism</i>—claims that materialistic science will eventually succeed in explaining phenomena it has not so far been able to explain.<sup id="cite_ref-70" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-70"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Polkinghorne prefers "<a href="/wiki/Dual-aspect_monism" class="mw-redirect" title="Dual-aspect monism">dual-aspect monism</a>" to materialism.<sup id="cite_ref-71" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-71"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Some scientific materialists have been criticized for failing to provide clear definitions of matter, leaving the term <i>materialism</i> without any definite meaning. <a href="/wiki/Noam_Chomsky" title="Noam Chomsky">Noam Chomsky</a> states that since the concept of matter may be affected by new scientific discoveries, as has happened in the past, scientific materialists are being dogmatic in assuming the opposite.<sup id="cite_ref-Chomsky,_Noam_2000_47-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Chomsky,_Noam_2000-47"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Materialism&amp;action=edit&amp;section=23" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1184024115">.mw-parser-output .div-col{margin-top:0.3em;column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .div-col-small{font-size:90%}.mw-parser-output .div-col-rules{column-rule:1px solid #aaa}.mw-parser-output .div-col dl,.mw-parser-output .div-col ol,.mw-parser-output .div-col ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .div-col li,.mw-parser-output .div-col dd{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}</style><div class="div-col" style="column-width: 25em;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aleatory_materialism" class="mw-redirect" title="Aleatory materialism">Aleatory materialism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antimaterialism_(disambiguation)" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="Antimaterialism (disambiguation)">Antimaterialism</a> beliefs: <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gnosticism" title="Gnosticism">Gnosticism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Idealism" title="Idealism">Idealism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Immaterialism" class="mw-redirect" title="Immaterialism">Immaterialism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maya_(religion)" title="Maya (religion)">Maya (religion)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mind%E2%80%93body_dualism" title="Mind–body dualism">Mind–body dualism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Platonic_realism" class="mw-redirect" title="Platonic realism">Platonic realism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Supernaturalism" class="mw-redirect" title="Supernaturalism">Supernaturalism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Transcendentalism" title="Transcendentalism">Transcendentalism</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/C%C4%81rv%C4%81ka" class="mw-redirect" title="Cārvāka">Cārvāka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christian_materialism" class="mw-redirect" title="Christian materialism">Christian materialism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Critical_realism_(philosophy_of_the_social_sciences)" title="Critical realism (philosophy of the social sciences)">Critical realism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cultural_materialism_(anthropology)" title="Cultural materialism (anthropology)">Cultural materialism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dialectical_materialism" title="Dialectical materialism">Dialectical materialism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Economic_materialism" title="Economic materialism">Economic materialism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Existence" title="Existence">Existence</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/French_materialism" title="French materialism">French materialism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grotesque_body" title="Grotesque body">Grotesque body</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Historical_materialism" title="Historical materialism">Historical materialism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hyle" class="mw-redirect" title="Hyle">Hyle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Incorporeality" title="Incorporeality">Incorporeality</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Madhyamaka" title="Madhyamaka">Madhyamaka</a>, a philosophy of <a href="/wiki/Middle_Way" title="Middle Way">Middle Way</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marxist_philosophy_of_nature" class="mw-redirect" title="Marxist philosophy of nature">Marxist philosophy of nature</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Materialist_feminism" title="Materialist feminism">Materialist feminism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Metaphysical_naturalism" title="Metaphysical naturalism">Metaphysical naturalism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Model-dependent_realism" title="Model-dependent realism">Model-dependent realism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Naturalism_(philosophy)" title="Naturalism (philosophy)">Naturalism (philosophy)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gustavo_Bueno#Philosophical_materialism" title="Gustavo Bueno">Philosophical materialism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philosophy_of_mind" title="Philosophy of mind">Philosophy of mind</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Physicalism" title="Physicalism">Physicalism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Postmaterialism" title="Postmaterialism">Postmaterialism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Quantum_energy" class="mw-redirect" title="Quantum energy">Quantum energy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rational_egoism" title="Rational egoism">Rational egoism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reality_in_Buddhism" title="Reality in Buddhism">Reality in Buddhism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scientistic_materialism" title="Scientistic materialism">Scientistic materialism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Substance_theory" title="Substance theory">Substance theory</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Transcendence_(religion)" title="Transcendence (religion)">Transcendence (religion)</a></li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Materialism&amp;action=edit&amp;section=24" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239549316">.mw-parser-output .refbegin{margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul{margin-left:0}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul>li{margin-left:0;padding-left:3.2em;text-indent:-3.2em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents ul,.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents ul li{list-style:none}@media(max-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul>li{padding-left:1.6em;text-indent:-1.6em}}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .refbegin{font-size:90%}}</style><div class="refbegin" style=""> <p><b>a.</b> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1041539562"><span class="citation wikicite" id="endnote_anone"><a href="#ref_anone"><b><sup>^</sup></b></a></span> Indeed, it has been noted it is difficult if not impossible to define one category without contrasting it with the other.<sup id="cite_ref-Priest1991_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Priest1991-5"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Novack1979_6-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Novack1979-6"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a 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In <i>Complexity, Entropy and the Physics of Information</i>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-59"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-59">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Jeans, James. 1937. <i><a href="/wiki/The_Mysterious_Universe" title="The Mysterious Universe">The Mysterious Universe</a></i>. p. 137.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-60"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-60">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Kant, Immanuel. "The refutation of idealism." pp. 345–52 in <i><a href="/wiki/Critique_of_Pure_Reason" title="Critique of Pure Reason">Critique of Pure Reason</a></i> (1st ed.), edited by <a href="/wiki/Norman_Kemp_Smith" title="Norman Kemp Smith">N. K. Smith</a>. (2nd ed., pp. 244–7).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-61"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-61">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Kant, Immanuel. "The refutation of idealism." pp. 345–52 in <i><a href="/wiki/Critique_of_Pure_Reason" title="Critique of Pure Reason">Critique of Pure Reason</a></i> (1st ed.), edited by <a href="/wiki/Norman_Kemp_Smith" title="Norman Kemp Smith">N. K. Smith</a>. A379, p. 352: "If, however, as commonly happens, we seek to extend the concept of dualism, and take it in the transcendental sense, neither it nor the two counter-alternatives — pneumatism [idealism] on the one hand, materialism on the other — would have any sort of basis. … Neither the transcendental object which underlies outer appearances nor that which underlies inner intuition, is in itself either matter or a thinking being, but a ground (to us unknown)…"</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-62"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-62">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.rep.routledge.com/article/DB047SECT7"><i>Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy</i></a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070206102552/http://www.rep.routledge.com/article/DB047SECT7">Archived</a> 6 February 2007 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>: "Kant argues that we can determine that there has been a change in the objects of our perception, not merely a change in our perceptions themselves, only by conceiving of what we perceive as successive states of enduring substances (see Substance)."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-63"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-63">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Kant, Immanuel. "The refutation of idealism." pp. 345–52 in <i><a href="/wiki/Critique_of_Pure_Reason" title="Critique of Pure Reason">Critique of Pure Reason</a></i> (1st ed.), edited by <a href="/wiki/Norman_Kemp_Smith" title="Norman Kemp Smith">N. K. Smith</a>. B274, p. 245: "All determination of time presupposes something permanent in perception. This permanent cannot, however, be something in me…"</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-64"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-64">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Mary_Midgley" title="Mary Midgley">Midgley, Mary</a>. 1990. <i>The Myths We Live By</i>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-65"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-65">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Baker, L. 1987. <i>Saving Belief</i>. Princeton: Princeton University Press</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-66"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-66">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Reppert, V. 1992. "Eliminative Materialism, Cognitive Suicide, and Begging the Question." <i><a href="/wiki/Metaphilosophy_(journal)" title="Metaphilosophy (journal)">Metaphilosophy</a></i> 23:378–92.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-67"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-67">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Seidner, Stanley S. 10 June 2009. "A Trojan Horse: Logotherapeutic Transcendence and its Secular Implications for Theology." <a href="/wiki/Mater_Dei_Institute_of_Education" title="Mater Dei Institute of Education">Mater Dei Institute</a>. p. 5.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-68"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-68">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Peter_Boghossian" title="Peter Boghossian">Boghossian, Peter</a>. 1990. "The Status of Content." <i><a href="/wiki/The_Philosophical_Review" title="The Philosophical Review">Philosophical Review</a></i> 99:157–84; and 1991. "The Status of Content Revisited." <i><a href="/wiki/Pacific_Philosophical_Quarterly" title="Pacific Philosophical Quarterly">Pacific Philosophical Quarterly</a></i> 71:264–78.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-69"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-69">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFde_Waal2006" class="citation journal cs1"><a href="/wiki/Cornelis_de_Waal" title="Cornelis de Waal">de Waal, Cornelis</a> (April 2006). "Having an Idea of Matter: A Peircean Refutation of Berkeleyan Immaterialism". <i><a href="/wiki/Journal_of_the_History_of_Ideas" title="Journal of the History of Ideas">Journal of the History of Ideas</a></i>. <b>67</b> (2): 292–293, 302–303. <a href="/wiki/JSTOR_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="JSTOR (identifier)">JSTOR</a>&#160;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/30141879">30141879</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.jtitle=Journal+of+the+History+of+Ideas&amp;rft.atitle=Having+an+Idea+of+Matter%3A+A+Peircean+Refutation+of+Berkeleyan+Immaterialism&amp;rft.volume=67&amp;rft.issue=2&amp;rft.pages=292-293%2C+302-303&amp;rft.date=2006-04&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jstor.org%2Fstable%2F30141879%23id-name%3DJSTOR&amp;rft.aulast=de+Waal&amp;rft.aufirst=Cornelis&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMaterialism" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-70"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-70">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">However, critics of materialism are equally guilty of prognosticating that it will <i>never</i> be able to explain certain phenomena. "Over a hundred years ago <a href="/wiki/William_James" title="William James">William James</a> saw clearly that science would never resolve the <a href="/wiki/Mind-body_dichotomy" class="mw-redirect" title="Mind-body dichotomy">mind-body problem</a>." <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.designinference.com/documents/1999.10.spiritual_machines.htm"><i>Are We Spiritual Machines?</i></a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20131111064335/http://www.designinference.com/documents/1999.10.spiritual_machines.htm">Archived</a> 11 November 2013 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a> Dembski, W.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-71"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-71">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.crosscurrents.org/polkinghorne.htm">"Interview with John Polkinghorne"</a>. Crosscurrents.org<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">24 June</span> 2013</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=unknown&amp;rft.btitle=Interview+with+John+Polkinghorne&amp;rft.pub=Crosscurrents.org&amp;rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.crosscurrents.org%2Fpolkinghorne.htm&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMaterialism" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Materialism&amp;action=edit&amp;section=26" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239549316"><div class="refbegin" style=""> <ul><li>Buchner, L. (1920). <i>Force and Matter</i>. New York, Peter Eckler Publishing Co.</li> <li>Churchland, Paul (1981). <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/2025900">Eliminative Materialism and the Propositional Attitudes</a></i>. The Philosophy of Science. Boyd, Richard; P. Gasper; J. D. Trout. Cambridge, Massachusetts, MIT Press.</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFField1981" class="citation cs2"><a href="/wiki/Hartry_Field" title="Hartry Field">Field, Hartry H.</a> (1981), "Mental representation", in Block, Ned Joel (ed.), <i>Readings in Philosophy of Psychology</i>, vol.&#160;2, Taylor &amp; Francis, <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780416746006" title="Special:BookSources/9780416746006"><bdi>9780416746006</bdi></a></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=bookitem&amp;rft.atitle=Mental+representation&amp;rft.btitle=Readings+in+Philosophy+of+Psychology&amp;rft.pub=Taylor+%26+Francis&amp;rft.date=1981&amp;rft.isbn=9780416746006&amp;rft.aulast=Field&amp;rft.aufirst=Hartry+H.&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMaterialism" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFFlanagan1991" class="citation book cs1">Flanagan, Owen J. (1991). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=80HIwMz3bvwC"><i>Science of the Mind 2e</i></a>. MIT Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-262-56056-6" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-262-56056-6"><bdi>978-0-262-56056-6</bdi></a><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">19 December</span> 2012</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Science+of+the+Mind+2e&amp;rft.pub=MIT+Press&amp;rft.date=1991&amp;rft.isbn=978-0-262-56056-6&amp;rft.aulast=Flanagan&amp;rft.aufirst=Owen+J.&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3D80HIwMz3bvwC&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMaterialism" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li>Fodor, J.A. (1974). "Special Sciences", <i>Synthese</i>, Vol. 28.</li> <li>Gunasekara, Victor A. (2001). "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.buddhismtoday.com/english/buddha/Teachings/basicteaching11.htm">Buddhism and the Modern World</a>". <i>Basic Buddhism: A Modern Introduction to the Buddha's Teaching". 18 January 2008</i></li> <li>Kim, J. (1994) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/2107741">Multiple Realization and the Metaphysics of Reduction</a>, <i>Philosophy and Phenomenological Research</i>, Vol. 52.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Julien_Offray_de_La_Mettrie" title="Julien Offray de La Mettrie">La Mettrie, La Mettrie, Julien Offray de</a> (1748). <i>L'Homme Machine</i> (<i><a href="/wiki/Man_a_Machine" title="Man a Machine">Man a Machine</a></i>)</li> <li>Lange, Friedrich A. (1925) <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/703434926">The History of Materialism</a></i>. New York, Harcourt, Brace, &amp; Co.</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMoserTrout1995" class="citation book cs1">Moser, Paul K.; Trout, J. D. (1995). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=-vIzCvCAxpgC"><i>Contemporary Materialism: A Reader</i></a>. Psychology Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-415-10863-8" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-415-10863-8"><bdi>978-0-415-10863-8</bdi></a><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">19 December</span> 2012</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Contemporary+Materialism%3A+A+Reader&amp;rft.pub=Psychology+Press&amp;rft.date=1995&amp;rft.isbn=978-0-415-10863-8&amp;rft.aulast=Moser&amp;rft.aufirst=Paul+K.&amp;rft.au=Trout%2C+J.+D.&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3D-vIzCvCAxpgC&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMaterialism" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFPriest1991" class="citation cs2">Priest, Stephen (1991), <i>Theories of the Mind</i>, London: <a href="/wiki/Penguin_Books" title="Penguin Books">Penguin Books</a>, <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-14-013069-1" title="Special:BookSources/0-14-013069-1"><bdi>0-14-013069-1</bdi></a></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Theories+of+the+Mind&amp;rft.place=London&amp;rft.pub=Penguin+Books&amp;rft.date=1991&amp;rft.isbn=0-14-013069-1&amp;rft.aulast=Priest&amp;rft.aufirst=Stephen&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMaterialism" class="Z3988"></span> Alternative <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-14-013069-0" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-14-013069-0">978-0-14-013069-0</a></li> <li>Schopenhauer, Arthur (1969). <i><a href="/wiki/The_World_as_Will_and_Representation" title="The World as Will and Representation">The World as Will and Representation</a></i>. New York, Dover Publications, Inc.</li> <li>Seidner, Stanley S. (10 June 2009). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://docs.google.com/gview?a=v&amp;q=cache:FrKYAo88ckkJ:www.materdei.ie/media/conferences/a-secular-age-parallel-sessions-timetable.pdf+%22Stan+Seidner%22&amp;hl=en&amp;gl=us">"A Trojan Horse: Logotherapeutic Transcendence and its Secular Implications for Theology"</a>. <i>Mater Dei Institute</i></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFTurner2007" class="citation journal cs1">Turner, MS (5 January 2007). "Quarks and the Cosmos". <i>Science</i>. <b>315</b> (5808): 59–61. <a href="/wiki/Bibcode_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Bibcode (identifier)">Bibcode</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2007Sci...315...59T">2007Sci...315...59T</a>. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1126%2Fscience.1136276">10.1126/science.1136276</a>. <a href="/wiki/PMID_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="PMID (identifier)">PMID</a>&#160;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17204637">17204637</a>. <a href="/wiki/S2CID_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="S2CID (identifier)">S2CID</a>&#160;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:30977763">30977763</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.jtitle=Science&amp;rft.atitle=Quarks+and+the+Cosmos&amp;rft.volume=315&amp;rft.issue=5808&amp;rft.pages=59-61&amp;rft.date=2007-01-05&amp;rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1126%2Fscience.1136276&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.semanticscholar.org%2FCorpusID%3A30977763%23id-name%3DS2CID&amp;rft_id=info%3Apmid%2F17204637&amp;rft_id=info%3Abibcode%2F2007Sci...315...59T&amp;rft.aulast=Turner&amp;rft.aufirst=MS&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMaterialism" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li>Vitzthum, Richard C. (1995) <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books/about/Materialism.html?id=odjWAAAAMAAJ">Materialism: An Affirmative History and Definition</a></i>. 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title="Value (ethics)">Value</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Index_of_metaphysics_articles" title="Index of metaphysics articles">more ...</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_metaphysicians" title="List of metaphysicians">Metaphysicians</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Parmenides" title="Parmenides">Parmenides</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Plato" title="Plato">Plato</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aristotle" title="Aristotle">Aristotle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lucretius" title="Lucretius">Lucretius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Proclus" title="Proclus">Proclus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Plotinus" title="Plotinus">Plotinus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Avicenna" title="Avicenna">Avicenna</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Duns_Scotus" title="Duns Scotus">Scotus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Aquinas" title="Thomas Aquinas">Aquinas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Francisco_Su%C3%A1rez" title="Francisco Suárez">Suárez</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Descartes" title="René Descartes">Descartes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Baruch_Spinoza" title="Baruch Spinoza">Spinoza</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Locke" title="John Locke">Locke</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nicolas_Malebranche" title="Nicolas Malebranche">Malebranche</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Isaac_Newton" title="Isaac Newton">Newton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gottfried_Wilhelm_Leibniz" title="Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz">Leibniz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christian_Wolff_(philosopher)" title="Christian Wolff (philosopher)">Wolff</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Reid" title="Thomas Reid">Reid</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Berkeley" title="George Berkeley">Berkeley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Hume" title="David Hume">Hume</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Immanuel_Kant" title="Immanuel Kant">Kant</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Georg_Wilhelm_Friedrich_Hegel" title="Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel">Hegel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arthur_Schopenhauer" title="Arthur Schopenhauer">Schopenhauer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bernard_Bolzano" title="Bernard Bolzano">Bolzano</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S%C3%B8ren_Kierkegaard" title="Søren Kierkegaard">Kierkegaard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hermann_Lotze" title="Hermann Lotze">Lotze</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Sanders_Peirce" title="Charles Sanders Peirce">Peirce</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Friedrich_Nietzsche" title="Friedrich Nietzsche">Nietzsche</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexius_Meinong" title="Alexius Meinong">Meinong</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henri_Bergson" title="Henri Bergson">Bergson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alfred_North_Whitehead" title="Alfred North Whitehead">Whitehead</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bertrand_Russell" title="Bertrand Russell">Russell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/G._E._Moore" title="G. E. Moore">Moore</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/R._G._Collingwood" title="R. G. Collingwood">Collingwood</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ludwig_Wittgenstein" title="Ludwig Wittgenstein">Wittgenstein</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Martin_Heidegger" title="Martin Heidegger">Heidegger</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rudolf_Carnap" title="Rudolf Carnap">Carnap</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gilbert_Ryle" title="Gilbert Ryle">Ryle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jean-Paul_Sartre" title="Jean-Paul Sartre">Sartre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Willard_Van_Orman_Quine" title="Willard Van Orman Quine">Quine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Donald_Davidson_(philosopher)" title="Donald Davidson (philosopher)">Davidson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/P._F._Strawson" title="P. F. Strawson">Strawson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/G._E._M._Anscombe" title="G. E. M. Anscombe">Anscombe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gilles_Deleuze" title="Gilles Deleuze">Deleuze</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Dummett" title="Michael Dummett">Dummett</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Malet_Armstrong" title="David Malet Armstrong">Armstrong</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hilary_Putnam" title="Hilary Putnam">Putnam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alvin_Plantinga" title="Alvin Plantinga">Plantinga</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saul_Kripke" title="Saul Kripke">Kripke</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Lewis_(philosopher)" title="David Lewis (philosopher)">Lewis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jean_Baudrillard" title="Jean Baudrillard">Baudrillard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Derek_Parfit" title="Derek Parfit">Parfit</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/List_of_metaphysicians" title="List of metaphysicians">more ...</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Notable works</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Sophist_(dialogue)" title="Sophist (dialogue)">Sophist</a></i> <span style="font-size:85%;">(c. 350 BC)</span></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Timaeus_(dialogue)" title="Timaeus (dialogue)">Timaeus</a></i> <span style="font-size:85%;">(c. 350 BC)</span></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ny%C4%81ya_S%C5%ABtras" title="Nyāya Sūtras">Nyāya Sūtras</a></i> <span style="font-size:85%;">(c. 200 BC)</span></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/De_rerum_natura" title="De rerum natura">De rerum natura</a></i> <span style="font-size:85%;">(c. 80 BC)</span></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Metaphysics_(Aristotle)" title="Metaphysics (Aristotle)">Metaphysics</a></i> <span style="font-size:85%;">(c. 50)</span></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Enneads" title="Enneads">Enneads</a></i> <span style="font-size:85%;">(c. 270)</span></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Daneshnameh-ye_Alai" class="mw-redirect" title="Daneshnameh-ye Alai">Daneshnameh-ye Alai</a></i> <span style="font-size:85%;">(c. 1000)</span></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Meditations_on_First_Philosophy" title="Meditations on First Philosophy">Meditations on First Philosophy</a></i> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1641)</span></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ethics_(Spinoza_book)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ethics (Spinoza book)">Ethics</a></i> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1677)</span></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Treatise_Concerning_the_Principles_of_Human_Knowledge" title="A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge">A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge</a></i> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1710)</span></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Monadology" title="Monadology">Monadology</a></i> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1714)</span></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Critique_of_Pure_Reason" title="Critique of Pure Reason">Critique of Pure Reason</a></i> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1781)</span></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Prolegomena_to_Any_Future_Metaphysics" title="Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics">Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics</a></i> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1783)</span></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Phenomenology_of_Spirit" title="The Phenomenology of Spirit">The Phenomenology of Spirit</a></i> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1807)</span></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_World_as_Will_and_Representation" title="The World as Will and Representation">The World as Will and Representation</a></i> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1818)</span></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Concluding_Unscientific_Postscript_to_Philosophical_Fragments" title="Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments">Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments</a></i> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1846)</span></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Being_and_Time" title="Being and Time">Being and Time</a></i> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1927)</span></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Being_and_Nothingness" title="Being and Nothingness">Being and 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title="Charvaka">Cārvāka</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jain_philosophy" title="Jain philosophy">Jain</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Anekantavada" title="Anekantavada">Anekantavada</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sy%C4%81dv%C4%81da" class="mw-redirect" title="Syādvāda">Syādvāda</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buddhist_philosophy" title="Buddhist philosophy">Buddhist</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Abhidharma" title="Abhidharma">Abhidharma</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sarvastivada" title="Sarvastivada">Sarvāstivadā</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pudgalavada" title="Pudgalavada">Pudgalavada</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sautr%C4%81ntika" title="Sautrāntika">Sautrāntika</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Madhyamaka" title="Madhyamaka">Madhyamaka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Svatantrika%E2%80%93Prasa%E1%B9%85gika_distinction" title="Svatantrika–Prasaṅgika distinction">Svatantrika and Prasangika</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C5%9A%C5%ABnyat%C4%81" title="Śūnyatā">Śūnyatā</a></li> <li><a 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style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:6.6em;font-weight: normal;">East Asian</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Xuanxue" title="Xuanxue">Neotaoism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tiantai" title="Tiantai">Tiantai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Huayan" title="Huayan">Huayan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chan_Buddhism" title="Chan Buddhism">Chan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zen" title="Zen">Zen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neo-Confucianism" title="Neo-Confucianism">Neo-Confucianism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Korean_Confucianism" title="Korean Confucianism">Korean Confucianism</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:6.6em;font-weight: normal;"><a href="/wiki/Western_philosophy" title="Western 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href="/wiki/Achintya_Bheda_Abheda" title="Achintya Bheda Abheda">Acintya bheda abheda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Advaita_Vedanta" title="Advaita Vedanta">Advaita</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bhedabheda" title="Bhedabheda">Bhedabheda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dvaita_Vedanta" title="Dvaita Vedanta">Dvaita</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nimbarka_Sampradaya" title="Nimbarka Sampradaya">Nimbarka Sampradaya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shuddhadvaita" title="Shuddhadvaita">Shuddhadvaita</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vishishtadvaita" title="Vishishtadvaita">Vishishtadvaita</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Navya-Ny%C4%81ya" title="Navya-Nyāya">Navya-Nyāya</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:6.6em;font-weight: normal;"><a href="/wiki/Islamic_philosophy" title="Islamic philosophy">Islamic</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aristotelianism" title="Aristotelianism">Aristotelianism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Averroism" title="Averroism">Averroism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Avicennism" title="Avicennism">Avicennism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Illuminationism" title="Illuminationism">Illuminationism</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Kalam" title="Kalam">ʿIlm al-Kalām</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sufi_philosophy" title="Sufi philosophy">Sufi</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:6.6em;font-weight: normal;"><a href="/wiki/Jewish_philosophy" title="Jewish philosophy">Jewish</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Judeo-Islamic_philosophies_(800%E2%80%931400)" title="Judeo-Islamic philosophies (800–1400)">Judeo-Islamic</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:6.8em"><a href="/wiki/Modern_philosophy" title="Modern philosophy">Modern</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Anarchism" title="Anarchism">Anarchism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Classical_Realism" title="Classical Realism">Classical Realism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Collectivism_and_individualism" class="mw-redirect" title="Collectivism and individualism">Collectivism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Conservatism" title="Conservatism">Conservatism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Determinism" title="Determinism">Determinism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mind%E2%80%93body_dualism" title="Mind–body dualism">Dualism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edo_neo-Confucianism" title="Edo neo-Confucianism">Edo neo-Confucianism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Empiricism" title="Empiricism">Empiricism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Existentialism" title="Existentialism">Existentialism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Foundationalism" title="Foundationalism">Foundationalism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Historicism" title="Historicism">Historicism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Holism" title="Holism">Holism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Humanism" title="Humanism">Humanism</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Antihumanism" title="Antihumanism">Anti-</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Idealism" title="Idealism">Idealism</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Absolute_idealism" title="Absolute idealism">Absolute</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/British_idealism" title="British idealism">British</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/German_idealism" title="German idealism">German</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Objective_idealism" title="Objective idealism">Objective</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Subjective_idealism" title="Subjective idealism">Subjective</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Transcendental_idealism" title="Transcendental idealism">Transcendental</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Individualism" title="Individualism">Individualism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kokugaku" title="Kokugaku">Kokugaku</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Classical_liberalism" title="Classical liberalism">Liberalism</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Materialism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Modernism" title="Modernism">Modernism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Monism" title="Monism">Monism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Naturalism_(philosophy)" title="Naturalism (philosophy)">Naturalism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Natural_law" title="Natural law">Natural law</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nihilism" title="Nihilism">Nihilism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Confucianism" title="New Confucianism">New Confucianism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neo-scholasticism" title="Neo-scholasticism">Neo-scholasticism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pragmatism" title="Pragmatism">Pragmatism</a></li> <li><a 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title="Kantianism">Kantianism</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Neo-Kantianism" title="Neo-Kantianism">Neo</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philosophy_of_S%C3%B8ren_Kierkegaard" title="Philosophy of Søren Kierkegaard">Kierkegaardianism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Krausism" title="Krausism">Krausism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hegelianism" class="mw-redirect" title="Hegelianism">Hegelianism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marxist_philosophy" title="Marxist philosophy">Marxism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Newtonianism" title="Newtonianism">Newtonianism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philosophy_of_Friedrich_Nietzsche" title="Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche">Nietzscheanism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spinozism" class="mw-redirect" title="Spinozism">Spinozism</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:6.8em"><a href="/wiki/Contemporary_philosophy" title="Contemporary philosophy">Contemporary</a></th><td 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title="Normative ethics">Normative ethics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ordinary_language_philosophy" title="Ordinary language philosophy">Ordinary language philosophy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Postanalytic_philosophy" title="Postanalytic philosophy">Postanalytic philosophy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Quietism_(philosophy)" title="Quietism (philosophy)">Quietism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Rawls" title="John Rawls">Rawlsian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reformed_epistemology" title="Reformed epistemology">Reformed epistemology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Systemics" title="Systemics">Systemics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scientism" title="Scientism">Scientism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scientific_realism" title="Scientific realism">Scientific realism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scientific_skepticism" title="Scientific skepticism">Scientific skepticism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Transactionalism" title="Transactionalism">Transactionalism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Utilitarianism#Developments_in_the_20th_century" title="Utilitarianism">Contemporary utilitarianism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vienna_Circle" title="Vienna Circle">Vienna Circle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ludwig_Wittgenstein" title="Ludwig Wittgenstein">Wittgensteinian</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:6.6em;font-weight: normal;"><a href="/wiki/Continental_philosophy" title="Continental philosophy">Continental</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Critical_theory" title="Critical theory">Critical theory</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deconstruction" title="Deconstruction">Deconstruction</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Existentialism" title="Existentialism">Existentialism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Feminist_philosophy" title="Feminist philosophy">Feminist</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frankfurt_School" title="Frankfurt School">Frankfurt School</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hermeneutics" title="Hermeneutics">Hermeneutics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neo-Marxism" title="Neo-Marxism">Neo-Marxism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_historicism" title="New historicism">New Historicism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phenomenology_(philosophy)" title="Phenomenology (philosophy)">Phenomenology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Posthumanism" title="Posthumanism">Posthumanism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Postmodern_philosophy" title="Postmodern philosophy">Postmodernism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Post-structuralism" title="Post-structuralism">Post-structuralism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Social_constructionism" title="Social constructionism">Social constructionism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Structuralism" title="Structuralism">Structuralism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Western_Marxism" title="Western Marxism">Western Marxism</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" 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style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><div class="hlist"><ul><li>By region</li></ul></div></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:6.8em"><a href="/wiki/Outline_of_philosophy#Philosophic_traditions_by_region" title="Outline of philosophy">By region</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:6.6em;font-weight: normal;"><a href="/wiki/African_philosophy" title="African philosophy">African</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ubuntu_philosophy" title="Ubuntu philosophy">Bantu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ancient_Egyptian_philosophy" title="Ancient Egyptian philosophy">Egyptian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ethiopian_philosophy" title="Ethiopian philosophy">Ethiopian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Africana_philosophy" title="Africana philosophy">Africana</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:6.6em;font-weight: normal;"><a href="/wiki/Eastern_philosophy" title="Eastern philosophy">Eastern</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Buddhist_philosophy" title="Buddhist philosophy">Buddhist</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chinese_philosophy" title="Chinese philosophy">Chinese</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indian_philosophy" title="Indian philosophy">Indian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indonesian_philosophy" title="Indonesian philosophy">Indonesian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Japanese_philosophy" title="Japanese 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