[ExI] transhumanism as a philosophy

[Damien Broderick]

On 6/21/2010 11:56 PM, Max More wrote:

> Is *materialism* a philosophy? Is it a philosophical system? (Perhaps
> these should be treated as two separate questions.)

I don't even know what "materialism" means; it seems a sort of pre-20th 
century formulation, maybe pre-19th century, since QT and SR and GR seem 
more like "symmetryism" or "geometrism" or "ergism". I think maybe 
"naturalism" is a bit like what most people mean, or "positivism," or 
"physicalism."

> If so, what are its
> core texts?

De rerum natura by Lucretius, all the way to Carnap and Ryle and Dewey 
and Nagel and Dennett and dog knows what all anti-dualists? See, eg, 
<http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/physicalism/>

Damien Broderick