Thinking Matter: Materialism in Eighteenth-Century Britain

University of Minnesota Press (1983)
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This book, a reevaluation of a major issue in modern philosophy, explores the controversy that grew out of John Locke's suggestion, in the Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690), that God could give to matter the power of thought.

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1984

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9780816660582   0816660581   0816611610   0631133356

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10.2307/2026407
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Reid and Priestley on method and the mind.Alan Tapper - 2002 - Philosophical Quarterly 52 (209):511-525.

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