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Are You an Illusion? by Mary Midgley
Category: Culture | Series: Heretics
Renowned philosopher Mary Midgley explores the remarkable gap that has opened up between our own understanding of our sense of our self and today's scientific orthodoxy that claims the self to be nothing more than an elaborate illusion. Bringing her formidable acuity and analytic skills to bear, she ex ...Show more
Are You an Illusion? by Mary Midgley
Category: Philosophy
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. A full-spirited defence of ...Show more
Beast and Man by Mary Midgley
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Routledge Classics Ser.
Philosophers have traditionally concentrated on the qualities that make human beings different from other species. In Beast and Man Mary Midgley, one of our foremost intellectuals, stresses continuities. What makes people tick? Largely, she asserts, the same things as animals. She tells us humans are ra ...Show more
Can't We Make Moral Judgements? by Mary Midgley
Category: Philosophy | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
Heart and Mind by Mary Midgley
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Routledge Classics Ser.
With a new introduction by the author. It is a book of superb spirit and style, more entertaining than a work of philosophy has any right to be.’ – Times Literary Supplement. Throughout our lives we are making moral choices. Some decisions simply direct our everyday comings and goings; others affect our ...Show more
Owl of Minerva: A Memoir by Mary Midgley
Category: Fiction
One of the UK's foremost living moral philosophers, Mary Midgley recounts her remarkable story in this elegiac and moving account of friendships lost and found, bitter philosophical battles and of a profound love of teaching. One of the UK’s foremost living moral philosophers, Mary Midgley recounts her ...Show more
The Myths We Live By by Mary Midgley
Category: Mythology | Series: Routledge Classics
With a new Introduction by the author 'An elegant and sane little book. - The New Statesman Myths, as Mary Midgley argues in this powerful book, are everywhere. In political thought they sit at the heart of theories of human nature and the social contract; in economics in the pursuit of self interest; ...Show more
The Solitary Self : Darwin and the Selfish Gene by Mary Midgley
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Heretics
Renowned philosopher Mary Midgley explores the nature of our moral constitution to challenge the view that reduces human motivation to self-interest. Midgley argues cogently and convincingly that simple, one-sided accounts of human motives, such as the 'selfish gene' tendency in recent neo-Darwinian tho ...Show more
What Is Philosophy for? by Mary Midgley
Category: Philosophy and Religion
Why should anybody take an interest in philosophy? Is it just another detailed study like metallurgy? Or is it similar to history, literature and even religion: a study meant to do some personal good and influence our lives? Mary Midgley addresses these provocative questions in her most up-to-date s ...Show more
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