La Mettrie

Others, however, such as La Mettrie and Diderot, regarded Cheselden's account as wholly ambiguous in its implications.

Molyneux's Problem Degenaar, Marjolein 2005

At one extreme stand think - ers such as La Mettrie and H.J. Eysenck, who seek an ultimately physiological, even physical explanation of social phenomena; then there are those, such as

TYPES OF INDIVIDUALISM STEVEN LUKES 1968

Gall was wrong in the particulars, but right that the brain, much as La Mettrie had said, was an elaborate clockworks.

MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION Gary Greenberg 2010

Psychoanalyst-turned-neuropsychiatrist and Nobel laureate Eric Kandel has no more scientific proof when he claims that “the mind is a set of operations carried out by the brain much as walking is a set of operations carried out by the legs” than La Mettrie did when he declared that the brain “possesses muscles for thinking as the legs do for walking.”

MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION Gary Greenberg 2010

But compared to what the French and Dutch authorities did to Julien Offray de La Mettrie in the eighteenth century for suggesting that consciousness was the product of a machine-like brain, litigation with a medical board is a walk in the park.

MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION Gary Greenberg 2010

Although Hartley affirms that the whole person is a “mechanism,” subject to scientific study, he is no French atheist, no La Mettrie (author of the notorious L'Homme machine, 1748), but a person of deep religious sensibility.

David Hartley Allen, Richard 2009

King Frederick II had invited foreign intellectuals and scientists, such as Maupertuis, d'Alembert, La Mettrie, Voltaire, Lagrange, and Euler to the academy, and they had little patience with their speculative German colleagues.

Kant's Philosophical Development Schönfeld, Martin 2007

Frederick need not have summoned the least worthy French freethinkers, men like d'Argens and La Mettrie and De Prades, in their own way as little attractive in life and in doctrine as any monk or Geneva preacher, to warrant him in thinking meanly of mankind.

Voltaire 2007

Julien Offray de La Mettrie 1709-1751 - French physician and philosopher, earliest of the materialist writers of the Enlightenment.

Science: Ohio School Board Boots Out ID - The Panda's Thumb 2006

From beast-machine to man-machine; animal soul in French letters from Descartes to La Mettrie, new and enlarged edition, New York: Oxford University Press

Antoine Le Grand Easton, Patricia 2006