Elements de physiologie

Book • 1984
Éléments de physiologie is a work by French philosopher Denis Diderot.

The book explores Diderot's materialist and mechanistic views of the human body and mind.

Diderot examines the functions of the various organs and systems of the body, and he argues that all human thought and behavior can be explained in terms of physical processes.

The book was not published during Diderot's lifetime, and it was not widely read until the 20th century.

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Andrew Billing
as a work by Diderot that is gaining increasing attention.
Andrew Billing, "Animal Rhetoric and Natural Science in Eighteenth-century Liberal Political Writing" (Routledge, 2023)

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