SCIENCE AS SALVATION
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SCIENCE AS SALVATION (ebook)

MARY MIDGLEY

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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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