Julien Offroy De La Mettrie
1709-1751
French physician and philosopher whose materialistic interpretations of psychic and physiological phenomena were published in A Natural History of the Soul (1745)...
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La Mettrie, Julien Offray De(1709–1751)
Julien Offray de La Mettrie, the French physician and philosopher, was born in Saint-Malo, Brittany. After attending the Collège d'Harcourt...
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The French physician and philosopher Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1709-1751) is best known for his "Man a Machine," an incisive and witty exposition of his theory of the dependence of mind on body.The...
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Julien Offroy De La Mettrie
La Mettrie, Julien Offray De (1709-1751)
Julien Offray de La Mettrie