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Acknowledgments; Contents; Chapter 1: (Introduction): Materialism, Opprobrium and the History of Philosophy; 1.1 Definitional Problems; 1.2 Dead Matter and the Opprobrium of Materialism; 1.3 Forms of Materialism; References; Chapter 2: To Be Is to Be for the Sake of Something: Aristotle's Arguments with Materialism; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 A Biologistic Metaphysics: From Form and Matter to Change and Generation; 2.2.1 Why Do We Need Functional Explanations?; 2.2.2 Functionalism; 2.2.3 Chance; 2.3 'For the Sake Of' Against Materialism; 2.3.1 Nature as 'For the Sake Of'
2.3.2 'Matter For the Sake of X'2.4 Conclusion; References; Chapter 3: Chance, Necessity and Transformism: Brief Considerations; 3.1 'Un coup de dés jamais n'abolira le hasard': Materialism, Transformism and Chance; 3.2 Determinism Without Laws of Nature?; 3.3 Conclusion; References; Chapter 4: Early Modern Materialism and the Flesh or, Forms of Materialist Embodiment; 4.1 What Is Materialist Embodiment?; 4.2 Is Mechanism the Problem?; 4.3 Visceral Reductionism; 4.4 Vital Materialism; 4.5 Conclusion; References
Chapter 5: Vital Materialism and the Problem of Ethics in the Radical Enlightenment5.1 Vital Materialism Again; 5.2 La Mettrie and Diderot: Aporias of Materialist Hedonism; 5.3 From the Libertine to the Laughing Philosopher: A Possible Ethics?; 5.4 Materialism as an Ontology of Relations; 5.5 Conclusion: On the Possibility (and Difficulty) of an Enlightenment Materialist Ethics; References; Chapter 6: Naturalization, Localization: A Remark on Brains and the Posterity of the Enlightenment; 6.1 The Naturalization of the Soul; 6.2 Localizing Mental Functions; References
Chapter 7: Materialism in Australia: The Identity Theory in Retrospect7.1 Introduction; 7.2 The Early Genesis of the Theory: The Vienna Circle Critique of Vitalism; 7.3 The Power of Reduction; 7.4 The Identity Theory: Place, Smart and Armstrong; 7.5 Reflections on the IT; 7.5.1 With What Does the IT Begin?; 7.5.2 The IT as a Logical Theory; 7.6 A Challenge to any Materialism: Functionalism; 7.7 Conclusion; References; Chapter 8: Phantom Limbs and the First-Person Perspective: An Embodied-Materialist Response; 8.1 Introduction; 8.2 First-Person Privilege?; 8.3 An Embodied-Materialist Response
8.3.1 Problems with the First Person 8.3.2 Embodying Interiority; 8.4 De-Ontologizing the Brain; 8.5 Conclusion; References; Chapter 9: Conclusion; 9.1 General Remarks; 9.2 Materialism and the Sciences; 9.3 Physicalism and the End; References; Index
2.3.2 'Matter For the Sake of X'2.4 Conclusion; References; Chapter 3: Chance, Necessity and Transformism: Brief Considerations; 3.1 'Un coup de dés jamais n'abolira le hasard': Materialism, Transformism and Chance; 3.2 Determinism Without Laws of Nature?; 3.3 Conclusion; References; Chapter 4: Early Modern Materialism and the Flesh or, Forms of Materialist Embodiment; 4.1 What Is Materialist Embodiment?; 4.2 Is Mechanism the Problem?; 4.3 Visceral Reductionism; 4.4 Vital Materialism; 4.5 Conclusion; References
Chapter 5: Vital Materialism and the Problem of Ethics in the Radical Enlightenment5.1 Vital Materialism Again; 5.2 La Mettrie and Diderot: Aporias of Materialist Hedonism; 5.3 From the Libertine to the Laughing Philosopher: A Possible Ethics?; 5.4 Materialism as an Ontology of Relations; 5.5 Conclusion: On the Possibility (and Difficulty) of an Enlightenment Materialist Ethics; References; Chapter 6: Naturalization, Localization: A Remark on Brains and the Posterity of the Enlightenment; 6.1 The Naturalization of the Soul; 6.2 Localizing Mental Functions; References
Chapter 7: Materialism in Australia: The Identity Theory in Retrospect7.1 Introduction; 7.2 The Early Genesis of the Theory: The Vienna Circle Critique of Vitalism; 7.3 The Power of Reduction; 7.4 The Identity Theory: Place, Smart and Armstrong; 7.5 Reflections on the IT; 7.5.1 With What Does the IT Begin?; 7.5.2 The IT as a Logical Theory; 7.6 A Challenge to any Materialism: Functionalism; 7.7 Conclusion; References; Chapter 8: Phantom Limbs and the First-Person Perspective: An Embodied-Materialist Response; 8.1 Introduction; 8.2 First-Person Privilege?; 8.3 An Embodied-Materialist Response
8.3.1 Problems with the First Person 8.3.2 Embodying Interiority; 8.4 De-Ontologizing the Brain; 8.5 Conclusion; References; Chapter 9: Conclusion; 9.1 General Remarks; 9.2 Materialism and the Sciences; 9.3 Physicalism and the End; References; Index