A history of materialism, Part 3: Scientific materialism

The third of a four-part series on Marx's science and epistemology.

This is the third of a four-part series on the history of materialism. The first part is here and the second part is here.

The intellectual history of epistemologies is far more complicated and nuanced than the capsule summary I’ve presented her, but I do so for a reason. In principle, we should be able to place any given theory of knowledge on a spectru…