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  • WICKEDNESS
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    WICKEDNESS
    DR MARY MIDGLEY / MARY MIDGLEY
    To look into the darkness of the human soul is a frightening venture. Here Mary Midgley does so, with her customary brilliance and clarity. Midgley's analysis proves that the capacity for real wickedness is an inevitable part of human nature. This is not however a blanket acceptance of evil. Out of this dark journey she returns with an offering to us: an understanding of human ...

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  • ARE YOU AN ILLUSION?
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    ARE YOU AN ILLUSION?
    MARY MIDGLEY
    In an impassioned defence of the importance of our own thoughts, feelings and experiences, the renowned philosopher Mary Midgley shows that there’s much more to our selves than a jumble of brain cells. Exploring the remarkable gap that has opened up between our understanding of our sense of self and today’s science, Midgley argues powerfully and persuasively that the rich varie...

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  • THE SOLITARY SELF
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    THE SOLITARY SELF
    MARY MIDGLEY
    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 thought, may be illuminating but are always unrealistic. Such neatness, she sho...

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  • SCIENCE AND POETRY
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    SCIENCE AND POETRY
    MARY MIDGLEY
    Crude materialism, reduction of mind to body, extreme individualism. All products of a 17th century scientific inheritance which looks at the parts of our existence at the expense of the whole.Cutting through myths of scientific omnipotence, Mary Midgley explores how this inheritance has so powerfully shaped the way we are, and the problems it has brought with it. She argues th...

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  • SCIENCE AS SALVATION
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    SCIENCE AS SALVATION
    MARY MIDGLEY
    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 ambitions which tend to gather around the notion of science. ...

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  • OWL OF MINERVA
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    OWL OF MINERVA
    MARY MIDGLEY
    One of the UK's foremost moral philosophers, Mary Midgley recounts her remarkable story in this elegiac and moving account of friendships found and lost, bitter philosophical battles and of a profound love of teaching. In spite of her many books and public profile, little is known about Mary's life. Part of a famous generation of women philosophers that includes Elizabeth Ansco...

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  • BEAST AND MAN
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    BEAST AND MAN
    MARY MIDGLEY
    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 rather more like other animals than we previously allowed ourselves to believe...

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  • HEART AND MIND
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    HEART AND MIND
    MARY MIDGLEY
    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 individual destinies. How do we make those choices? Where does our sense of...

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  • UTOPIAS, DOLPHINS AND COMPUTERS
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    UTOPIAS, DOLPHINS AND COMPUTERS
    MARY MIDGLEY
    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 way; she shows that there is a need for philosophy in the real world. Her popularity as one of our foremost philosophers is based on a no-nonsense, down-to-earth approach to fundamental human problems, philosphical or otherwise. ...

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  • EVOLUTION AS A RELIGION
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    EVOLUTION AS A RELIGION
    MARY MIDGLEY
    According to a profile in The Guardian, Mary Midgley is 'the foremost scourge of scientific pretensions in this country; someone whose wit is admired even by those who feel she sometimes oversteps the mark'. Considered one of Britain's finest philosophers, Midgley exposes the illogical logic of poor doctrines that shelter themselves behind the prestige of science. Always at hom...

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  • WISDOM, INFORMATION AND WONDER
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    WISDOM, INFORMATION AND WONDER
    MARY MIDGLEY
    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 fragmentary and specialized way in which information is conveyed in the high-tech world, and criticizes conceptions of philosophy that support this mode of thinking. ...

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  • THE ETHICAL PRIMATE
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    THE ETHICAL PRIMATE
    MARY MIDGLEY
    In The Ethical Primate, Mary Midgley, 'one of the sharpest critical pens in the West' according to the Times Literary Supplement, addresses the fundamental question of human freedom. Scientists and philosophers have found it difficult to understand how each human-being can be a living part of the natural world and still be free. Midgley explores their responses to this seeming ...

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  • THE ESSENTIAL MARY MIDGLEY
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    THE ESSENTIAL MARY MIDGLEY
    MARY MIDGLEY
    Feared and admired in equal measure, Mary Midgley has carefully yet profoundly challenged many of the scientific and moral orthodoxies of the twentieth century. The Essential Mary Midgley is a must-have anthology of the very best of Midgley's philosophy, whose work is described by the Financial Times as 'common sense philosophy of the highest order'. Incorporating carefully sel...

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