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Thomas Hobbes: Materialist Philosophy and 'Leviathan' (1620–1679)

1588 - 1679

Marx and Engels: Historical Materialism and the Materialist Conception of History (1844–1895)

1844 - 1895

Ludwig Feuerbach's Materialist Critique of Religion (1830s–1860s)

1830 - 1866

Julien Offray de La Mettrie and 'Man a Machine' (1748–1751)

1733 - 1752

Indian Lokāyata (Cārvāka) Materialist School (c. 6th century BCE–2nd century CE)

600 BCE - 1350

French Enlightenment Materialist Circle: Diderot, Holbach, and the Encyclopédie Debates (1730–1789)

1746 - 1789

Epicurean Materialism in the Hellenistic World (c. 307 BCE–3rd century CE)

306 BCE - 300

Eliminative Materialism and Neurophilosophy: Paul and Patricia Churchland (1970s–1990s)

1979 - 2024

Contemporary Scientific Materialism and Physicalist Debates (1990s–present)

1991 - 2023

Behaviorism and Methodological Materialism in Psychology (John B. Watson to B.F. Skinner) (1913–1950s)

1913 - 1957