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Wisdom, Information, and Wonder: What Is Knowledge For?

Product Description: 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...read more

By Mary Midgley

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9781138141261, titled "Wisdom, Information and Wonder: What Is Knowledge For?" | Routledge, April 14, 2016, cover price $165.00 | About this edition: In this book one of Britain's leading philosophers tackles a question at the root of our civilisation: What is knowledge for?

Paperback:

9780415028301 | Routledge, June 1, 1991, cover price $41.95

Miscellaneous:

9780203003879, titled "Wisdom, Information and Wonder: What Is Knowledge For?" | Routledge, January 4, 2002, cover price $31.95

Heart and Mind: The Varieties of Moral Experience

Product Description: 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.â â 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...read more

By Mary Midgley

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Hardcover:

9781138141728 | 3 revised edition (Routledge, March 31, 2016), cover price $165.00 | About this edition: With a new introduction by the author.

9780312365882 | Palgrave Macmillan, December 1, 1981, cover price $25.00

Paperback:

9780415304498 | Taylor & Francis Ltd, February 6, 2003, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Midgley offers us an optimistic and holistic view of what it means to be human, acknowledging the complex interconnections of emotion and intellect, while presenting us with the freedom to be ourselves.

Miscellaneous:

9780203426890 | Routledge, February 6, 2003, cover price $17.95

Miscellaneous:

9780203222331 | Methuen Pub Ltd, December 1, 1982, cover price $53.95

The Solitary Self: Darwin and the Selfish Gene

Product Description: 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...read more

By Mary Midgley

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9781138169296 | Routledge, January 29, 2016, cover price $165.00 | About this edition: Renowned philosopher Mary Midgley explores the nature of our moral constitution to challenge the view that reduces human motivation to self-interest.

Wickedness

By Mary Midgley

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Hardcover:

9781138127012 | 2 revised edition (Routledge, October 29, 2015), cover price $165.00

Miscellaneous:

9780203380451 | 2 edition (Routledge, April 2, 2004), cover price $120.00

The Myths We Live by

By Mary Midgley

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Hardcover:

9781138834798 | Reprint edition (Routledge, May 19, 2015), cover price $140.00

9780415309066 | Routledge, July 1, 2003, cover price $85.00

Paperback:

9780415610247 | Reprint edition (Routledge, May 17, 2011), cover price $25.95

9780415340779 | Routledge, August 15, 2004, cover price $29.95

Miscellaneous:

9780203463024 | Routledge, June 1, 2004, cover price $27.95

Are You an Illusion?

Product Description: In Are You an Illusion? todayâs scientific orthodoxy, which treats the self as nothing more than an elaborate illusion, comes under spirited attack. In an impassioned defence of the importance of our own thoughts, feelings and experiences, Mary Midgley shows that thereâs much more to our selves than a jumble of brain cells...read more

By Mary Midgley

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Hardcover:

9781138171343 | Routledge, September 29, 2015, cover price $165.00 | About this edition: In Are You an Illusion?

Paperback:

9781844657926 | Acumen Pub Ltd, April 30, 2014, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: In Are You an Illusion?

Earthy Realism: The Meaning of Gaia

Product Description: 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 of personification it attacks the view that the physical world is inert and lifeless...read more

By Mary Midgley (editor)

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9781845400804 | Imprint Academic, April 1, 2007, cover price $17.90 | About this edition: 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.

The Essential 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 collects for the first time the very best of this famous philosopher's work, described by the Financial Times as 'common sense philosophy of the highest order'. This unrivalled introduction to a great philosopher and brilliant writer incorporates carefully selected excerpts from Mary Midgley's bestselling books, including Wickedness, Beast and Man, Science and Poetry, and The Myths We Live By. With a specially written foreword by James Lovelock, this classic text presents a superb and eminently readable insight into questions she has returned to time and again in her renowned sharp prose. This anthology discusses major topics, such as the roots of human nature, reason and imagination, the myths of science and the importance of holism in thinking about science and the environment.

By Mary Midgley (editor)

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9780415346412 | Routledge, July 1, 2005, cover price $145.00 | About this edition: Feared and admired in equal measure, Mary Midgley has carefully yet profoundly challenged many of the scientific and moral orthodoxies of the twentieth century.

Paperback:

9780415346429 | Routledge, September 10, 2005, cover price $33.95

The Owl of Minerva: A Memoir

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.

By Mary Midgley

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Hardcover:

9780415367882 | Routledge, November 1, 2005, cover price $50.00

Paperback:

9780415371391, titled "Owl of Minerva: A Memoir" | 1 new edition (Routledge, August 10, 2007), cover price $27.95 | About this edition: 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.

Miscellaneous:

9780203027394, titled "Owl of Minerva: A Memoir" | Routledge, September 1, 2005, cover price $25.95

Utopias, Dolphins and Computers: Problems in Philosophical Plumbing

By Mary Midgley

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9780203436080 | Routledge, October 4, 2003, cover price $35.95

Evolution As a Religion: Strange Hopes and Stranger Fears

According to The Guardian, Midgley is 'the foremost scourge of scientific pretentions in this country; someone whose wit is admired even by those who fee she sometimes oversteps the mark'. This book examines how science comes to be used as a substitute for religion and points out how badly that role distorts it. Her argument is flawlessly insightful: a punch, compelling, lively indictment of these misuses of science. Both the book and its author are true classics of our time.

By Mary Midgley

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9780415278331 | Routledge, September 1, 2002, cover price $20.95 | About this edition: According to The Guardian, Midgley is 'the foremost scourge of scientific pretentions in this country; someone whose wit is admired even by those who fee she sometimes oversteps the mark'.

9780416396607 | Routledge, January 1, 1986, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: 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'.

Miscellaneous:

9780203472682 | Routledge, November 1, 2002, cover price $26.95

Evolution As a Religion

Product Description: 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...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Mary Midgley

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9780415278324 | 2 revised edition (Routledge, September 1, 2002), cover price $137.00 | About this edition: 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'.

Beast and Man: The Roots of Human Nature

`Beast and Man is a brilliant and persuasive attempt to set us in our animal context, ... and to indicate a morality for a society without religious absolutes - a morality of which we see the rudiments in our brother species.' - The Observer

By Mary Midgley

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Hardcover:

9780415289863 | Routledge, February 1, 2003, cover price $137.00

Paperback:

9780415289870 | Routledge, November 1, 2002, cover price $22.95

9780415127400 | Revised edition (Routledge, March 1, 1995), cover price $26.95 | also contains Bioceramic Coatings for Medical Implants: Trends and Techniques | About this edition: `Beast and Man is a brilliant and persuasive attempt to set us in our animal context, .

Miscellaneous:

9780203626504 | Routledge, July 11, 2002, cover price $19.95

9780203380192 | 2 edition (Routledge, April 20, 1995), cover price $26.95

Delfines, Sexo Y Utopias

By Mary Midgley

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9789681666415 | Fondo De Cultura Economica USA, June 28, 2002, cover price $25.99

Science As Salvation: A Modern Myth and Its Meaning

By Mary Midgley

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Hardcover:

9780415062718 | Routledge, June 1, 1992, cover price $115.00

Paperback:

9780415107730 | Routledge, April 1, 1994, cover price $39.95

Miscellaneous:

9780203046890 | Routledge, January 31, 2002, cover price $35.95

Wickedness: A Philosophical Essay

Product Description: 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 Wickedness she sets out to delineate not so much the nature of wickedness as its actual sources...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Mary Midgley

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9780415255516 | 2 edition (Routledge, July 1, 2001), cover price $137.00 | About this edition: To look into the darkness of the human soul is a frightening venture.

9780710097590 | Routledge Kegan & Paul, October 1, 1984, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: To look into the darkness of the human soul is a frightening venture.

Paperback:

9780415253987 | Routledge, June 26, 2001, cover price $19.95

9780744800531 | Reprint edition (Routledge Kegan & Paul, June 1, 1987), cover price $17.99 | About this edition: To look into the darkness of the human soul is a frightening venture.

Science and Poetry

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 that poetry and the arts can help reconcile these problems, and counteract generations of 'one-eyed specialists', unable and unwilling to look beyond their own scientific or literary sphere.Dawkins, Atkins, Bacon and Descartes all come under fire as Midgely sears through contemporary debate, from Gaia to memes, and organic food to greenhouse gases. After years of unquestioned imperialism, science is finally forced to take a step back and acknowledge the arts.

By Mary Midgley

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9780415237321 | Routledge, February 1, 2001, cover price $110.00 | About this edition: Crude materialism, reduction of mind to body, extreme individualism.

Paperback:

9780415378482 | 1 edition (Routledge, April 1, 2006), cover price $22.95

9780415276320 | Routledge, May 1, 2002, cover price $20.95

Miscellaneous:

9780203187944 | Routledge, January 4, 2002, cover price $20.95

Utopias, Dolphins and Computers: Problems of 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 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. In Utopias, Dolphins and Computers she makes her case for philosophy as a difficult but necessary tool for solving some of the most pressing issues facing contemporary society.How should we treat animals? Why are we so confused about the value of education? What is at stake in feminism? Why should we sustain our environment? Why do we think intelligent computers will save us? Mary Midgley argues that philosophy not only can, but should be used in thinking about these questions.Utopias, Dolphins and Computers will make fascinating reading for philosophers, educationalists, feminists, environmentalists and indeed anyone interested in the questions of philosophy, ethics and life. (view table of contents)

By Mary Midgley

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9780415133777 | Routledge, October 1, 1996, cover price $100.00 | About this edition: Why do the big philosophical questions so often strike us as far-fetched and little to with everyday life?

Paperback:

9780415133784 | Routledge, May 1, 2000, cover price $39.95

Animals and Why They Matter

Analyzes the relationship between humanity and animals from the perspectives of philosophy and ethics and examines the nature of the rights of animals (view table of contents)

By Mary Midgley

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Hardcover:

9780820307046 | Univ of Georgia Pr, April 1, 1984, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: Analyzes the relationship between humanity and animals from the perspectives of philosophy and ethics and examines the nature of the rights of animals

Paperback:

9780820320410 | Reissue edition (Univ of Georgia Pr, September 1, 1998), cover price $22.95

9780820307565 | Univ of Georgia Pr, June 1, 1984, cover price $15.00

The Ethical Primate: Humans, Freedom and Morality

Product Description: Ethical Primate : Humans, Freedom and Morality by Mary Midgley. Routledge N. Y.,1994

By Mary Midgley

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Hardcover:

9780415095303 | Routledge, October 1, 1994, cover price $130.00 | About this edition: 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.

Paperback:

9780415132244 | Routledge, March 1, 1996, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Ethical Primate : Humans, Freedom and Morality by Mary Midgley.

Can't We Make Moral Judgements?

Product Description: In this book, Mary Midgely turns a spotlight on the fashionable view that we no longer need or use moral judgements. She shows how the question of whether or not we can make moral judgements must inevitably affect our attitudes to the law and its institutions, but also to events that occur in our daily lives...read more

By Mary Midgley

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Hardcover:

9780312061296 | St Martins Pr, May 1, 1991, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: How many times do we hear the statement 'It's not for me to judge'?

Paperback:

9780312087265 | Reprint edition (Palgrave Macmillan, January 15, 1993), cover price $38.00 | About this edition: In this book, Mary Midgely turns a spotlight on the fashionable view that we no longer need or use moral judgements.

Biological and Cultural Evolution

Product Description: In this monograph Mary Midgley discusses whether there is such a thing as cultural evolution, paying particular attention to the ideas of sociobiology.

By Mary Midgley

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Paperback:

9780904674088 | Ishk Book Service, December 1, 1984, cover price $6.00 | About this edition: In this monograph Mary Midgley discusses whether there is such a thing as cultural evolution, paying particular attention to the ideas of sociobiology.

Women's Choices: Philosophical Problems Facing Feminism

By Judith Hughes and Mary Midgley

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9780312887919, titled "Women's Choices: Philosophical Problems Facing Feminism" | Palgrave Macmillan, March 1, 1984, cover price $22.50 | also contains The Wapping Project On Paper

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