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9780415309066 | Routledge, July 1, 2003, cover price $78.00 | About this edition: Mary Midgley argues in her powerful new book that far from being the opposite of science, myth is a central part of it.
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9780415610247 | Reprint edition (Routledge, May 17, 2011), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: With a new Introduction by the author 'An elegant and sane little book.
9780415340779 | Routledge, August 15, 2004, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Mary Midgley argues in her powerful new book that far from being the opposite of science, myth is a central part of it.
Miscellaneous:
9780203463024 | Routledge, June 1, 2004, cover price $27.95
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9781845400804 | Imprint Academic, April 1, 2007, cover price $17.90 | About this edition: goddess, is the notion that the Earth and the life on it form an active, self-maintaining whole.
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9780415346412 | Routledge, July 1, 2005, cover price $130.00 | 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.
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9780415346429 | Routledge, September 10, 2005, cover price $29.95 | 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.
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9780415367882 | Routledge, November 1, 2005, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: 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.
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9780415371391, titled "Owl of Minerva: A Memoir" | 1 new edition (Routledge, August 10, 2007), cover price $25.95 | 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
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9780203380451 | 2 edition (Routledge, April 2, 2004), cover price $120.00
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9780203436080 | Routledge, October 4, 2003, cover price $35.95
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Midgley exposes the illogical logic of poor doctrines that shelter themselves behind the prestige of science. Always at home when taking on the high priests of evolutionary theory - Dawkins, Wilson and their acolytes - she has described evolution as "the creation-myth of our age". In "Evolution As A Religion" she examines how science comes to be used as a substitute for religion and points out how badly that role distorts it. Her argument is insightful - a lively indictment of these misuses of science.
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9780415278331 | Routledge, September 1, 2002, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Midgley exposes the illogical logic of poor doctrines that shelter themselves behind the prestige of science.
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
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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 right and wrong come from, and how can we make more informed decisions? In clear, entertaining prose Mary Midgley takes us to the heart of the matter: the human experience that is central to all decision-making.
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9780312365882 | Palgrave Macmillan, December 1, 1981, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Throughout our lives we are making moral choices.
Miscellaneous:
9780203426890 | Routledge, February 6, 2003, cover price $17.95
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9780203222331 | Methuen Pub Ltd, December 1, 1982, cover price $53.95
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9780415278324 | Routledge, September 1, 2002, cover price $130.00 | 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'.
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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, and reminds us just how primitive we are in comparison to the sophistication of many animals. A veritable classic for our age, Beast and Man has helped change the way we think about ourselves and the world in which we live.
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9780415289863 | Routledge, February 1, 2003, cover price $130.00
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9780415289870 | Routledge, November 1, 2002, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Philosophers have traditionally concentrated on the qualities that make human beings different from other species.
9780415127400 | Revised edition (Routledge, March 1, 1995), cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Beast and Man is Mary Midgley's classic study of humanity's place in the order of things.
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9780203626504 | Routledge, July 11, 2002, cover price $19.95
9780203380192 | 2 edition (Routledge, April 20, 1995), cover price $26.95
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9789681666415 | Fondo De Cultura Economica USA, June 28, 2002, cover price $25.99
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The package called Science has always included strange and potent myths as well as facts. In the past, a seventeenth-century scientist's fantasy was to be a sexual victor over a prostrate Mother Nature. Today, some prophetic physicists argue that modern technology will enable humanity to colonize space and dominate the whole universe. They offer pie in the sky on a scale seldom approached by the religions. Mary Midgley's latest book examines the meaning of such dreams, the general importance of myth, and the relation of both to Science.
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9780415062718 | Routledge, June 1, 1992, cover price $115.00 | About this edition: The package called Science has always included strange and potent myths as well as facts.
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9780415107730 | Routledge, April 1, 1994, cover price $35.95 | About this edition: What is the role of scientists in society?
Miscellaneous:
9780203046890 | Routledge, January 31, 2002, cover price $35.95
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In Wisdom, Information and Wonder, Mary Midgley tackles the question at the root of our civilization: What is knowledge for? The author rejects the fragmentary and specialized way in which information is conveyed in today's high technology world and argues cogently for the primary importance of understanding over the acquisition of information. Thinking itself, she argues, needs to strengthen the connection between theory and practice.Midgley challenges us to re-examine the protective barriers built to isolate ``science'' from other forms of inquiry, and each particular science from its neighbors. More urgently still, philosophy itself needs to stop being treated as an obscure specialty, and take up its role as the key to understanding.
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9780415028301 | Routledge, June 1, 1991, cover price $35.95 | About this edition: In Wisdom, Information and Wonder, Mary Midgley tackles the question at the root of our civilization: What is knowledge for?
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9780203003879, titled "Wisdom, Information and Wonder: What Is Knowledge For?" | Routledge, January 4, 2002, cover price $31.95
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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 nature that enhances our very humanity. (view table of contents)
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9780415255516 | 2 edition (Routledge, July 1, 2001), cover price $130.00
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.
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9780415253987 | Routledge, June 26, 2001, cover price $18.99 | About this edition: To look into the darkness of the human soul is a frightening venture.
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.
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9780415237321 | Routledge, February 1, 2001, cover price $98.00 | About this edition: Crude materialism, reduction of mind to body, extreme individualism.
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9780415378482 | 1 edition (Routledge, April 1, 2006), cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Science, according to the received wisdom of the day, can answer any question we choose to put to it – even the most fundamental about ourselves, our behaviour and our cultures.
9780415276320 | Routledge, May 1, 2002, cover price $20.95 | About this edition: Crude materialism, reduction of mind to body, extreme individualism.
Miscellaneous:
9780203187944 | Routledge, January 4, 2002, cover price $20.95
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9780415133777 | Routledge, October 1, 1996, cover price $100.00 | About this edition: In Utopias, Dolphins and Computers Mary Midgley brings philosophy into the real world by using it to consider environmental, educational and gender issues.
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9780415133784 | Routledge, May 1, 2000, cover price $35.95 | About this edition: Why do the big philosophical questions so often strike us as far-fetched and little to with everyday life?
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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
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9780820320410 | Reissue edition (Univ of Georgia Pr, September 1, 1998), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Animals and Why They Matter examines the barriers that our philosophical traditions have erected between human beings and animals and reveals that the too-often ridiculed subject of animal rights is an issue crucially related to such problems within the human community as racism, sexism, and age discrimination.
9780820307565 | Univ of Georgia Pr, June 1, 1984, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Animals and Why They Matter examines the barriers that our philosophical traditions have erected between human beings and animals and reveals that the too-often ridiculed subject of animal rights is an issue crucially related to such problems within the human community as racism, sexism, and age discrimination.
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9780415095303 | Routledge, October 1, 1994, cover price $118.00 | 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.
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9780415132244 | Routledge, March 1, 1996, cover price $33.95 | 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.
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9780312061296 | St Martins Pr, May 1, 1991, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: In this book, Mary Midgely turns a spotlight on the fashionable view that we no longer need or use moral judgements.
Paperback:
9780312087265 | Reprint edition (Palgrave Macmillan, January 15, 1993), cover price $30.00 | About this edition: In this book, Mary Midgely turns a spotlight on the fashionable view that we no longer need or use moral judgements.
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9780904674088 | Ishk Book Service, December 1, 1984, cover price $6.00
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9780312887919, titled "Women's Choices: Philosophical Problems Facing Feminism" | Palgrave Macmillan, March 1, 1984, cover price $22.50
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