The view that only the material world (matter) is truly real, and that all processes and realities observed in the universe can be explained by reducing them down to their most basic scientific ...

Lenin’s decision to devote an entire year to the writing of Materialism and Empirio-Criticism (1908-09) reflected his awareness of the immense danger posed by the widespread influence of ...

This is a book about sensory states and their apparent characteristics. It confronts a whole series of metaphysical and epistemological questions and presents an argument for type materialism: the ...

Coherent materialism claims that thinking in the real world requires couplings of software and hardware that satisfy ...

During Christmas Day Mass in 2016 he warned that the true meaning of Christmas was being drowned out by materialism. His predecessor Pope Benedict made a similar point in 2011.