The British physicist-turned-theologian John Polkinghorne has criticized what he terms the "promissory" form of this concept. When prefaced with "eliminative", this term describes a view put forth by Daniel Dennett, Georges Rey, and Paul Churchland that rejects folk psychology and argues that psychological concepts should be judged by how well they reduce to the biological level. A 1748 work from this school of thought was written by Julien de La Mettrie. Paul d'Holbach outlined the views of this school of thought in the 1770 work The System of Nature, and other exponents of this concept include Herbert Feigl and Ludw
The British physicist-turned-theologian John Polkinghorne has criticized what he terms the "promissory" form of this concept. When prefaced with "eliminative", this term describes a view put forth by Daniel Dennett, Georges Rey, and Paul Churchland that rejects folk psychology and argues that psychological concepts should be judged by how well they reduce to the biological level. A 1748 work from this school of thought was written by Julien de La Mettrie. Paul d'Holbach outlined the views of this school of thought in the 1770 work The System of Nature, and other exponents of this concept include Herbert Feigl and Ludwig Buchner. Jean Cabanis wrote an 1802 treatise on this concept, and Karl Vogt used the liver as an analogy to explain this concept. An 1866 critique and history of this concept was written by Frederich Albert Lange. When prefaced with "dialectical", this term names Marx's approach to historical analysis. For ten points, name this term referring to a school of thought which says that only the physical world exists.
The British physicist-turned-theologian John Polkinghorne has criticized what he terms the "promissory" form of this concept.
materialism