Materialism is often seen as a driving force in today’s consumer-driven society. People strive to acquire more possessions, usually equating material wealth with success and happiness.

What is materialism in philosophy? In just 2 minutes, this video clearly explains the core idea that everything in the universe, including mind and consciousness, can ultimately be explained in terms ...

For decades, Marxism and the socialist tradition more generally — of which Marxism is just apart — were associated with a doctrine known as materialism. But in the recent past, this approach ...

3 Tips to Tame Your Materialism and Be Happier Materialism can make you miserable, science shows. Here’s how to weaken its grip on your life.

The researchers concluded that low life satisfaction caused materialism, and only in kids who frequently saw TV advertising. "It's really about the way that advertising tries to sell products ...

I’m a consumer psychologist who has been researching materialism for 30 years. Materialists are more motivated and excited by the purchase of a product more than the actual use of the product.

Materialism makes you a broke jerk, says science Being obsessed with stuff is eating your money, relationships, and soul, according to psychologist Tim Kasser.

Materialism, sometimes called naturalism, is the belief that matter — molecules in motion — is all that exists. Everything else: mind, consciousness, spirit — must somehow be reduced to the ...

That partisanship was, in part, why I recently wrote an essay concerning the question of mind, matter and the perspective known as materialism. The piece appeared two weeks ago in Aeon.

The Experience of God: Being, Consciousness, Bliss, by David Bentley Hart (Yale, 365 pp., $28) Despite what its title seems to promise, this book is not really about “the experience of God ...