@article{1447214,
      note = {Includes indexes.},
      author = {Romero, Gustavo E., and Pérez-Jara, Javier, and  Camprubí, Lino,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1447214},
      title = {Contemporary materialism : its ontology and epistemology  /},
      abstract = {Materialism has been the subject of extensive and rich  controversies since Robert Boyle introduced the term for  the rst time in the 17th century. But what is materialism  and what can it oer today? The term is usually dened as the  worldview according to which everything real is material.  Nevertheless, there is no philosophical consensus about  whether the meaning of matter can be enlarged beyond the  physical. As a consequence, materialism is often dened in  stark exclusive and reductionist terms: whatever exists is  either physical or ontologically reducible to it. This  conception, if consistent, mutilates reality, excluding the  ontological signicance of political, economic,  sociocultural, anthropological and psychological realities.  Starting from a new history of materialism, the present  book focuses on the central ontological and epistemological  debates aroused by todays leading materialist approaches,  including some little known to an anglophone readership.  The key concepts of matter, system, emergence, space and  time, life, mind, and software are checked over and  updated. Controversial issues such as the nature of  mathematics and the place of reductionism are also  discussed from different materialist approaches. As a  result, materialism emerges as a powerful, indispensable  scientifically-supported worldview with a surprising wealth  of nuances and possibilities.},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-89488-7},
      recid = {1447214},
      pages = {1 online resource.},
}