For decades, Marxism and the socialist tradition more generally — of which Marxism is just apart — were associated with a doctrine known as materialism. But in the recent past, this approach has ...

If you're materialistic, you're likely to use Facebook more frequently and intensely. A new article reveals that materialistic people see and treat their Facebook friends as 'digital objects,' and ...

This paper examines the resurgence of interest in the interpretation of quantum theory which occurred in the late 1940s and 1950s, and seeks to uncover its political origins in a perceived clash ...

In January 1848, James Marshall was building a sawmill by a river near present day Sacramento when he found a piece of glowing metal on the floor, which turned out to be gold. Once rumours of the ...

Paul Mattick Sr.'s 1939 review, from Living Marxism, of Karl Korsch' biography simply titled Karl Marx, first published in English in 1938. Mattick finds the biography largely relevant to proletarian ...

DR. NORMAN CAMPBELL has not understood me. Probably thinking that I am an idealist philosopher, he has supposed that I must be arguing that there is no scientific reality in the accepted meaning—that ...

Thomas Nagel, a distinguished philosopher at New York University, is well known for his critique of “materialistic reductionism” as an account of the mind-body relationship. In his new and ...