New materialism is a broad field within contemporary philosophy which seek to engage with the traditions of materialist philosophy as well as develop...

Materialism is a form of philosophical monism which holds that matter is the fundamental substance in nature, and that all things, including mental states...

Dialectical materialism is a materialist theory based upon the writings of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels that has found widespread applications in a...

Historical materialism is Karl Marx's theory of history. Marx located historical change in the rise of class societies and the way humans labor together...

Eliminative materialism (also called eliminativism) is a materialist position in the philosophy of mind. It is the idea that the majority of mental states...

Economic materialism can be described as either a personal attitude that attaches importance to acquiring and consuming material goods or as a logistical...

Spiritual materialism is a term coined by Chögyam Trungpa in his book Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism. The book is a compendium of his talks explaining...

costs without considering the political consequences for re-election. New materialism is a strain of thought in philosophy and the social sciences that conceives...

In the philosophy of mind, emergent (or emergentist) materialism is a theory which asserts that the mind is irreducibly existent in some sense. However...

humans and 'things', what she calls "vital materialism": What counts as the material of vital materialism? Is it only human labour and the socio-economic...