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Name: Julien Offray de La Mettrie
Birth Date: December 25, 1709
Death Date: November 11, 1751
Place of Birth: Brittany, France
Nationality: French
Gender: Male
Occupations: physician, philosopher

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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 son of a tradesman, Julien de La Mettrie was born...


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1709-1751 French physician and philosopher whose materialistic interpretations of psychic and physiological phenomena were published in A Natural History of the Soul (1745), L'Homme-machine(1747), Discourse on Happiness (1748), and The Small Man...
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La Mettrie, Julien Offray De(1709 286. Wright, John P., and Paul Potter, eds. Psyche and Soma: Physicians and Metaphysicians on the Mind -Body Problem from Antiquity to Enlightenment. Oxford: Clarendon Press,...
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Julien Offray de La Mettrie (December 25, 1709 - November 11,1751) was a French physician and philosopher, the earliest of the materialist writers of the Enlightenment. He has been claimed as a founder of cognitive...


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