Article ID: CBB000034399

Metaphysics and materialism: Needham's response to d'Holbach (1991)

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Description Includes the text of Needham's Idée sommaire, on vue générale du systême physique & métaphysique ... sur la génération des corps organisés, Needham's attempt to “define a new biology based on active matter that did not lead to materialism”.


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Authors & Contributors
Roe, Shirley A.
Darnton, Robert
Cristani, Giovanni
Thomson, Ann
Stefani, Marta
Rappaport, Rhoda
Journals
Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century
Dix-huitième siècle
Transactions of the International Congress on the Enlightenment
Journal of the History of Ideas
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
History of Political Thought
Publishers
Olschki
Syracuse University
Riuniti
Leo S. Olschki
Fayard
Concepts
Science
Philosophy
Matter theory
Materialism
Comparative physiology
Earth sciences
People
Holbach, Paul Henri Dietrich, Baron d'
Needham, John Turberville
Diderot, Denis
Spallanzani, Lazzaro
Rossi, Pietro
Wolff, Christian von
Time Periods
18th century
Places
France
Italy
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