Overview :For over 40 years, Mary Midgley made a forceful case for the relevance and importance of philosophy. With characteristic wit and wisdom, she... Read More
Overview :Feared and admired in equal measure, Mary Midgley has carefully yet profoundly challenged many of the scientific and moral orthodoxies of th... Read More
Overview :Feared and admired in equal measure, Mary Midgley has carefully yet profoundly challenged many of the scientific and moral orthodoxies of th... Read More
Overview :The story of four remarkable women who shaped the intellectual history of the 20th century: Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley,... Read More
Overview : Volume 17 (=334 pages) is in honor of Mary Midgley (1919-2018) and Iris Murdoch (1919-1999). Please note that a large majority of the chapt... Read More
Overview :To look into the darkness of the human soul is a frightening venture. Here Mary Midgley does so, with her customary brilliance and clarity. ... Read More
Overview :In Are You an Illusion? today's scientific orthodoxy, which treats the self as nothing more than an elaborate illusion, comes under spirited... Read More
Overview :Science, according to the received wisdom of the day, can answer any question we choose to put to it - even the most fundamental about ourse... Read More
Overview :Why should anybody take an interest in philosophy? Is it just another detailed study like metallurgy? Or is it similar to history, literatur... Read More
Overview :In this book one of Britain's leading philosophers tackles a question at the root of our civilisation: What is knowledge for? Midgley reject... Read More
Overview :One of the UK's foremost living moral philosophers, Mary Midgley recounts her remarkable story in this elegiac and moving account of friends... Read More
Overview :Animals and Why They Matter examines the barriers that our philosophical traditions have erected between human beings and animals and reveal... Read More
Overview :In The Ethical Primate, Mary Midgley, 'one of the sharpest critical pens in the West' according to the Times Literary Supplement, addresses ... Read More
Overview :Philosophers have traditionally concentrated on the qualities that make human beings different from other species. In Beast and Man Mary Mid... Read More
Overview :Renowned philosopher Mary Midgley explores the nature of our moral constitution to challenge the view that reduces human motivation to self-... Read More
Overview :According to The Guardian, Midgley is 'the foremost scourge of scientific pretentions in this country; someone whose wit is admired even by ... Read More