The Renewal of Materialism
Résumé
Contents
1. Introduction
2. François Dagognet, Materialism: A Philosophy of Multiple Revivals
3. Annie Bitbol-Hespériès, Descartes, Reader of Harvey: The Discovery of the Circulation of Blood in Context
4. Yves Charles Zarka, Being and Action in the Thought of Ralph Cudworth
5. Meriam Korichi, Defining Spinoza’s Possible Materialism
6. Ann Thomson, La Mettrie, Machines, and the Denial of Liberty
7. Amor Cherni, Brute Matter and Organic Matter in Buffon
8. Annie Ibrahim, The Life Principle and the Doctrine of Living Being in Diderot
9. Aurélie Suratteau-Iberraken, Medical Vitalism and Philosophical Materialism in the Eighteenth-Century Debate on Monsters
10. Roselyne Rey, Diderot and the Medicine of the Mind
11. Alexandre Métraux, The Emergent Materialism in French Clinical Brain Research (1820-1850): A Case Study in Historical Neurophilosophy
12. Pierre Kerszberg, The Mental Chemistry of Speculative Philosophy
13. Didier Gil, Is Consciousness a Brain Process?
14. Guillaume le Blanc, From Matter to Materiality According to Canguilhem
15. Jean-Claude Bourdin, The Uncertain Materialism of Louis Althusser
16. Antonio Negri, Alma Venus: Prolegomena to the Common