Materialism is a form of philosophical monism according to which matter is the fundamental substance in nature, and all things, including mental states...

Dialectical materialism is a materialist theory based upon the writings of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels that has found widespread applications in a...

Historical materialism is Karl Marx's theory of history. Marx located historical change in the rise of class societies and the way humans labor together...

Eliminative materialism (also called eliminativism) is a materialist position in the philosophy of mind that expresses the idea that the majority of mental...

Economic materialism can be described as either a personal attitude that attaches importance to acquiring (and often consuming) material goods, or as...

Cultural materialism refers to two separate scholarly endeavours: Cultural materialism (anthropology), an anthropological research orientation first introduced...

Materialism is the view that the universe consists only of organized matter and energy. Materialism or materialist may also refer to: Economic materialism...

French materialism is the name given to a handful of French 18th-century philosophers during the Age of Enlightenment, many of them clustered around the...

Dialectical Materialism and Historical Materialism is a Chinese textbook of Marxist–Leninist and Maoist philosophy, written and edited by Ai Siqi in 1961...

New materialism is a term which refers to several theoretical perspectives within contemporary philosophy that attempt to rework the conventional ontological...

In philosophy of mind, cartesian materialism, a term coined by Daniel Dennett, views consciousness as tied to one or more specific brain areas that capture...

of what exists. Philosophers often treat naturalism as equivalent to materialism, but there are important distinctions between the philosophies. For example...

Spiritual materialism is a term coined by Chögyam Trungpa in his book Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism. The book is a compendium of his talks explaining...

holistic combination of Christian theology with some ideas of (ontological) materialism, a belief that matter is a fundamental substance of the world and that...

Cultural materialism in literary theory and cultural studies traces its origin to the work of the left-wing literary critic Raymond Williams. Cultural...

development by way of overcoming internal contradictions. Dialectical materialism, a theory advanced by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, adapted the Hegelian...

rejects the perspectives of physicalism and dualism. In contrast to materialism, idealism asserts the primacy of consciousness as the origin and prerequisite...

In the philosophy of mind, emergent (or emergentist) materialism is a theory which asserts that the mind is irreducibly existent in some sense. However...

interpretation of historical development, better known as historical materialism, to analyse class relations, social conflict, and social transformation...

Scientistic materialism is a term used mainly by proponents of creationism and intelligent design to describe scientists who have a materialist worldview...

Historical Materialism is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal focused on the study of Marxist philosophy, historical materialism, political science...

Bataille's notion of materialism may also be seen as anticipating Louis Althusser's conception of aleatory materialism or "materialism of the encounter,"...

Cultural materialism is an anthropological research orientation first introduced by Marvin Harris in his 1968 book The Rise of Anthropological Theory...

Dialectical and Historical Materialism (Russian: О диалектическом и историческом материализме), by Joseph Stalin, is a central text within the Soviet...

philosophie. In this period he formulated his "materialism of the encounter" or "aleatory materialism", talking to Breton and Navarro about it, that first...

The materialism controversy (German: Materialismusstreit) was a debate in the mid-19th century regarding the implications for current worldviews of the...

term "speculative materialism" to describe his own position. A second conference, entitled "Speculative Realism/Speculative Materialism", took place at...

Interpassivity Over-identification Ideological fantasy (ideology as an unconscious fantasy that structures reality) Revival of dialectical materialism...

naturalism Reductive materialism Religious naturalism Revisionary materialism School of Naturalists Scientism Scientistic materialism Spiritual naturalism...

History of Materialism and Critique of Its Present Importance (German: Geschichte des Materialismus und Kritik seiner Bedeutung in der Gegenwart) is a...