The Renewal of Materialism

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Contents1. Introduction2. François Dagognet, Materialism: A Philosophy of Multiple Revivals3. Annie Bitbol-Hespériès, Descartes, Reader of Harvey: The Discovery of the Circulation of Blood in Context4. Yves Charles Zarka, Being and Action in the Thought of Ralph Cudworth5. Meriam Korichi, Defining Spinoza’s Possible Materialism6. Ann Thomson, La Mettrie, Machines, and the Denial of Liberty7. Amor Cherni, Brute Matter and Organic Matter in Buffon8. Annie Ibrahim, The Life Principle and the Doctrine of Living Being in Diderot9. Aurélie Suratteau-Iberraken, Medical Vitalism and Philosophical Materialism in the Eighteenth-Century Debate on Monsters10. Roselyne Rey, Diderot and the Medicine of the Mind11. Alexandre Métraux, The Emergent Materialism in French Clinical Brain Research (1820-1850): A Case Study in Historical Neurophilosophy12. Pierre Kerszberg, The Mental Chemistry of Speculative Philosophy13. Didier Gil, Is Consciousness a Brain Process?14. Guillaume le Blanc, From Matter to Materiality According to Canguilhem15. Jean-Claude Bourdin, The Uncertain Materialism of Louis Althusser16. Antonio Negri, Alma Venus: Prolegomena to the Common