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Materialism
Further Reading
Diderot,
Rameau’s Nephew
, translated by Margaret Mauldon, edited with an introduction by Nicholas Cronk (Oxford: Oxford World Classics, 2006)
Diderot,
Rameau’s Nephew
and
D’Alembert’s Dream
, translated by Leonard Tancock (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976)
Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, baron de,
The System of Nature
(Manchester: Clinamen, 1999)
Julien Offray de la Mettrie,
Machine Man and Other Writings
, translated and edited by Ann Thomson (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996 [174s])
Stendhal,
Love
, trans. Gilbert Sale and Suzanne Sale (Penguin, 1975 [1822])
Lucretius,
De Rerum Natura
A. C. Grayling,
Towards the Light: The Story of the Struggles for Liberty and Rights That Made the Modern West
(Bloomsbury Publishing, 2007)
A. C. Grayling,
Berkeley
: The Central Arguments
(Open Court Publishing, 1986)
Olivier Bloch,
Le matérialisme
(Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1995), 2
nd
edition (in French)
Margaret C. Jacob,
The Radical Enlightenment: Pantheists, Freemasons and Republicans
(London: Allen & Unwin, 1981)
Jonathan Israel,
Radical Enlightenment
(Oxford: OUP, 2001) and
Enlightenment Contested
(Oxford: OUP, 2006). Third volume forthcoming.
Ann Thomson,
Materialism and Society In The Mid-Eighteenth Century: La Mettrie's Discours Préliminaire
(Geneve: Droz, 1981)
C. Warman,
Sade: From Materialism to Pornography
(Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2002)
M.R. Bennett and P.M.S. Hacker,
Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience
(Oxford, Blackwell, 2003)
Paul M. Churchland,
The Engine of Reason, the Seat of the Soul: A Philosophical Journey into the Brain
(Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1995)
Daniel C. Dennett,
Consciousness Explained
(Boston, Little Brown and Co., 1991)
Jaegwon Kim,
Physicalism, Or Something Near Enough
(Princeton University Press, 2005)
N. Murphy and W.S. Brown,
Did My Neurons Make Me Do It?
(Oxford University Press, 2007)
Anthony O’Hear,
Philosophy in the New Century
(London, Continuum, 2001, especially Chapter 6)
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