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Crude materialism, reduction of mind to body, extreme individualism. All products of a 17th century scientific inheritance which looks at the parts of...
The Roots of Human Nature
Philosophers have traditionally concentrated on the qualities that make human beings different from other species. In Beast and Man Mary Midgley, one ...
Part of the new Routledge Classics series We have sold over 30,000 copies of Mary's books to date Mary Midgley's lucid volume is a classic critique of...
Animals and Why They Matter examines the barriers that our philosophical traditions have erected between human beings and animals and reveals that the...
This anthology includes carefully chosen selections from her best-selling books, including Wickedness, Beast and Man, Science and Poetry and The Myths...
With a new Introduction by the author 'An elegant and sane little book. โ The New Statesman Myths, as Mary Midgley argues in this powerful book, are...
The Next Big Idea
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Humans, Freedom and Morality
In The Ethical Primate, Mary Midgley, 'one of the sharpest critical pens in the West' according to the Times Literary Supplement, addresses the fundam...
Strange Hopes and Stranger Fears
According to a profile in The Guardian, Mary Midgley is 'the foremost scourge of scientific pretensions in this country; someone whose wit is admired ...
A Modern Myth and its Meaning
What is the role of scientists in society? What should we think when they talk about more than just science? Mary Midgley discusses the high spiritual...
A Philosophical Essay
To look into the darkness of the human soul is a frightening venture. Here Mary Midgley does so, with her customary brilliance and clarity. In Wickedn...
The Varieties of Moral Experience
Midgley addresses herself to the problems of moral philosophy and psychology, examining the way we think of ourselves and how this affects our lives....
In an impassioned defence of the importance of our own thoughts, feelings and experiences, the renowned philosopher Mary Midgley shows that thereโs ...
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...
What is Knowledge For?
In this book one of Britain's leading philosophers tackles a question at the root of our civilisation: What is knowledge for? Midgley rejects the frag...
A Memoir
An insight into the life of one of the UKโs best-known philosophers Big Guardian profile. Appeared on Womanโs Hour and the Moral Maze several time...
The Meaning of Gaia
GAIA, named after the ancient Greek mother-goddess, is the notion that the Earth and the life on it form an active, self-maintaining whole. By its use...
Darwin and the Selfish Gene
Renowned philosopher Mary Midgley explores the nature of our moral constitution to challenge the view that reduces human motivation to self-interest. ...
How many times do we hear the statement 'It's not for me to judge'? It conveys one of the most popular ideas of our time: that to make judgements of o...
Problems in Philosophical Plumbing
Why do the big philosophical questions so often strike us as far-fetched and little to with everyday life? Mary Midgley shows that it need not be that...
Philosophical Problems Facing Feminism
One of the UK's foremost moral philosophers, Mary Midgley recounts her remarkable story in this elegiac and moving account of friendships found and lo...
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