Introduction: The History and Philosophy of Materialism
1. Aristotle and Materialism Sophia Connell 2. A complex matter: Epicurus’ materialism Francesca Masi and Francesco Verde 3. Materialism, Monism and Emergent Properties in the Latin Middle Ages Aurelien Robert 4. Materialism in Medieval Islamic thought Mali Alinejad Zanjani 5. Conquest-Era Nahua Metaphysics: An Indigenous Materialism? James Maffie 6. Materialism in India Piotr Balcerowicz 7. Materialism in Chinese thought Shu-an Han
Part2: Renaissance and Early Modern Philosophy
8. Cosmological Materialism in the Renaissance Pietro Daniel Omodeo 9. Epicurean Materialism revisited: Gassendi on the Human Soul Delphine Bellis 10. Margaret Cavendish’s Materialism: Giving up the Ghost in the Machine Marcy Lascano 11. Malebranche: A Materialist Malgre Lui? Colin Chamberlain 12. Locke and his critics on the possibility of material minds Stewart Duncan 13. Early modern critiques of materialism and atheism: Cudworth, Clarke and Berkeley Kenneth Pearce
Part3: Enlightenment Materialisms
14. Anthony Collins on Texture and Structural Materialism Adam Harmer 15. From Active Matter and Movement to ‘Sensibilite’ and Social Harmony: D’Holbach’s enchanted materialism Ruggero Sciuto 16. Materialism in the German enlightenment, ca. 1690-1790 Falk Wunderlich 17. Is Materialism Atheistic? Charles Wolfe, Eleonora Alfano and John Symons
Part4: Nineteenth-Century Philosophy
18. Materialism between science and metaphysics: Controversies in Germany (1840s-1870s) Paolo Pecere 19. The specter of materialism haunts France and French spiritualism. Victor Cousin’s attempt at exorcism Delphine Antoine-Mahut 21. When matter ceased to matter. The disappearance of the philosophical problem of matter from physics in the late nineteenth century Marij van Strien
Part5: Twentieth-Century Philosophy
23. Materialism and Dialectics: Reassessing the Soviet tradition from Lenin to Ilyenkov Sascha Freyberg and Giorgi Kobakhidze 24. Russian Marxism and the Materialist Interpretation of Spinoza Justin Steinberg 25. Althusser’s Materialisms: Dialectical, Historical, and Aleatory William Lewis 26. Freudo-Marxist Materialism Cat Moir Wolfe 27. Neurath’s Physicalism John Symons
Part6: Contemporary Philosophy: Philosophy of Mind, Metaphysics and Critique
28. Our Mind-Body Problem Tom Polger 29. The Materialist Sixties Daniel Stoljar 30. From Materialism To Physicalism: An Opinionated Sketch Andrew Melnyk 31. Matter: A Feminist Reading Emanuela Bianchi. Index