Mary Midgley Forfatter
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Heart and Mind: The Varieties of Moral Experience (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Midgley addresses herself to the problems of moral philosophy and psychology, examining the way we think of ourselves and how this affects our lives.
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The Myths We Live By (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Mary Midgley argues in this powerful book that, far from being the opposite of science, myth is a central part of it.
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Beast and Man: The Roots of Human Nature (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In this major work, Mary Midgley, one of our foremost intellectuals argues that humans are rather more like animals than we have previously allowed ourselves to believe.
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Science and Poetry (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In this typically crusading work, universally acclaimed as a classic on first publication, Midgley asserts her corrective view that without poetry (or literature, or music, or history, or even theology) we cannot hope to understand our humanity.
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Science as Salvation: A Modern Myth and its Meaning (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Midgley notes how science has developed high spiritual ambitions. From prophetic physicists have come speculations that go beyond the claims of any religion.
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Utopias, Dolphins and Computers: Problems in Philosophical Plumbing (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Why do the big philosophical questions so often strike us as far-fetched and little to do with everyday life? In Utopias, Dolphins and Computers Mary Midgley shows us that there is a need for philosophy in the real world.
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The Ethical Primate: Humans, Freedom and Morality (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Mary Midgley argues that our evolutionary origin, properly understood, both explains why and how human freedom and morality have come about.
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Wisdom, Information and Wonder: What is Knowledge For? (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In this book one of Britain's leading popular philosophers tackles a question that is at the root of our civilization: What is knowledge for?
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Are You an Illusion? (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A salutary analysis of science’s claim to have done away with the self and a characteristic injection of common sense from one of our most respected philosophers into a debate increasingly in need of it. This Routledge Classics edition includes a new Foreword by Stephen Cave.
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The Essential Mary Midgley (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
This is a must-have anthology, incorporating carefully selected excerpts from her bestselling books, this 2nd edition includes work published in the last 20 years. Expertly edited and introduced by David Midgley, it also includes a new Foreword by Rachael Wiseman.
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