The society transformed phrenology from being merely a materialist theory of the mind into a secular doctrine of healthy living.

So a materialist theory of the mind is false.

I mean that modern doctrine, taught, I believe, by most followers of Karl Marx, which is called the materialist theory of history.

In short, the cow does fulfill the materialist theory of history: that is why the cow has no history.

The historical materialist theory of history dialectically analyzes the underlying causes of societal development and change in the collective ways humans make their living.

A more effective argument, on the other hand, can (or so it seems) be constructed in support of the materialist theory.

The German Ideology was written during Marx's development of a materialist theory of history and his break with Hegelian idealism.

The Soul and the Future Life, London, 1859, on the materialist theories of Joseph Priestley.

The principal focus of the correspondence was the possibility of a materialist theory of mind.

Augstein has suggested that these works were aimed at the prevalent materialist theories of mind, phrenology and craniology.