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Beast and man [[electronic resource] ] : the roots of human nature / / Mary Midgley
| Beast and man [[electronic resource] ] : the roots of human nature / / Mary Midgley |
| Autore | Midgley Mary <1919-> |
| Edizione | [Rev. ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1995 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (424 p.) |
| Disciplina | 128 |
| Soggetto topico | Human beings |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 0-203-38019-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910450019603321 |
Midgley Mary <1919->
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| London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1995 | ||
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Beast and man [[electronic resource] ] : the roots of human nature / / Mary Midgley
| Beast and man [[electronic resource] ] : the roots of human nature / / Mary Midgley |
| Autore | Midgley Mary <1919-> |
| Edizione | [Rev. ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1995 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (424 p.) |
| Disciplina | 128 |
| Soggetto topico | Human beings |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 0-203-38019-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910543178603321 |
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Midgley Mary <1919->
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| London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1995 | ||
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Can't we make moral judgements? / / Mary Midgley
| Can't we make moral judgements? / / Mary Midgley |
| Autore | Midgley Mary <1919-> |
| Edizione | [[Bloomsbury revelations edition.].] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London : , : Bloomsbury Academic, , 2017 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (185 pages) |
| Disciplina |
170
302.13 |
| Collana | Bloomsbury revelations |
| Soggetto topico |
Judgment (Ethics)
Moral conditions |
| ISBN |
1-4742-9801-X
1-4742-9799-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Preface to the Bloomsbury Revelations edition -- Introduction to the first edition -- 1 Can we base freedom on ignorance? -- 2 Starting from where we are -- 3 Why there is trouble over knowledge -- 4 Scepticisim and liberty -- 5 Why must we not interfere? -- 6 The fear of society -- 7 The public side of morality -- 8 Individuals in the modern melting-pot -- 9 Individualism, solitude and privacy -- 10 Morality and harm -- 11 Rethinking relativism -- 12 How large is a culture -- 13 Varieties of subjectivism -- 14 The problem of private validity -- 15 Social darwinist egoism -- 16 Moving forward through the modern world -- 17 Doubts, reasonable and otherwise -- 18 What about values -- 19 Back to the main question -- 20 How much have things changed -- Envoi -- Index of proper names. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910164050503321 |
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Midgley Mary <1919->
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| London : , : Bloomsbury Academic, , 2017 | ||
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The essential Mary Midgley / / edited by David Midgley
| The essential Mary Midgley / / edited by David Midgley |
| Autore | Midgley Mary <1919-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2005 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (424 p.) |
| Disciplina | 192 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | MidgleyDavid <1953-> |
| Soggetto topico | Philosophy, British - 20th century |
| ISBN |
1-134-27996-5
1-134-27997-3 1-280-17716-0 0-203-31963-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; FOREWORD; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; 1 HAVE WE A NATURE?; 2 ANIMALS AND THE PROBLEM OF EVIL; 3 SPEECH AND OTHER EXCELLENCES; 4 THE PROBLEM OF NATURAL EVIL; 5 THE ELUSIVENESS OF RESPONSIBILITY; 6 SELVES AND SHADOWS; 7 EMOTION,EMOTIVENESS AND SENTIMENTALITY; 8 EQUALITY AND OUTER DARKNESS; 9 IS A DOLPHIN A PERSON?; Part Two – Philosophizing Out in the World; 10 PHILOSOPHICAL PLUMBING; 11 WISDOM AND CONTEMPLATION; 12 THE WITHDRAWAL OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY; 13 ESCAPING FROM SOLITUDE; 14 THE HUMAN HEART AND OTHER ORGANS
15 ON TRYING OUT ONE 'S NEW SWORD ON A CHANCE WAYFARERPart Three – The Myths of Science; 16 SALVATION AND THE ACADEMICS; 17 EVOLUTIONARY DRAMAS; 18 THE IRRESISTIBLE ESCALATOR; 19 THE SERVICE OF SELF AND THE SERVICE OF KALI; 20 BIOTECHNOLOGY AND THE YUK FACTOR; 21 THE SUPERNATURAL ENGINEER; 22 THE REMARKABLE MASCULINE BIRTH OF TIME; Part Four – Reason and Imagination; 23 THE SOURCES OF THOUGHT; 24 ATOMISTIC VISIONS; 25 PUTTING OUR SELVES TOGETHER AGAIN; 26 A PLAGUE O |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910822192503321 |
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Midgley Mary <1919->
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| London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2005 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The ethical primate : humans, freedom, and morality / / Mary Midgley
| The ethical primate : humans, freedom, and morality / / Mary Midgley |
| Autore | Midgley Mary <1919-> |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Routledge, 1996 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (204 p.) |
| Disciplina | 170/.42 |
| Soggetto topico |
Free will and determinism
Human beings Human evolution - Moral and ethical aspects Ethics |
| ISBN |
1-134-82694-X
1-280-33268-9 0-203-02984-4 1-134-82695-8 0-203-28750-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; INNER DIVISIONS; MISGUIDED DEBATES; GUIDING VISIONS; HOPES OF SIMPLICITY; CRUSADES, LEGITIMATE AND OTHERWISE; CONVERGENT EXPLANATIONS AND THEIR USES; TROUBLES OF THE LINEAR PATTERN; FATALISM AND PREDICTABILITY; AGENCY AND ETHICS; MODERN MYTHS; THE STRENGTH OF INDIVIDUALISM; THE RETREAT FROM THE NATURAL WORLD; HOW FAR DOES SOCIABILITY TAKE US?; THE USES OF SYMPATHY; ON BEING TERRESTRIAL; WHAT KIND OF BEINGS ARE FREE?; MINDS RESIST STREAMLINING; Notes; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910824453703321 |
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Midgley Mary <1919->
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| New York, : Routledge, 1996 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Evolution as a religion : strange hopes and stranger fears / / Mary Midgley
| Evolution as a religion : strange hopes and stranger fears / / Mary Midgley |
| Autore | Midgley Mary <1919-> |
| Edizione | [Revised ed. /] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London, : Routledge, 2002 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (224 p.) |
| Disciplina |
116
215 |
| Collana | Routledge Classics |
| Soggetto topico |
Evolution - Religious aspects
Religion and science |
| ISBN |
0-203-36168-7
1-280-21738-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Front Cover; Copyright Page; Evolution as aReligion; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction to the Routledge Classics Edition; 1. Evolutionary Dramas; 2. Do Science and Religion Compete?; 3. Demarcation Disputes; 4. The Irresistible Escalator; 5. Choosing a World; 6. The Problem of Direction; 7. Scientist and Superscientist; 8. Dazzling Prospects; 9. Black Holes: Jacques Monod and the Isolation of 'Science'; 10. Freedom and the Monte Carlo Drama; 11. Scientific Education and Human Transience; 12. Mixed Antitheses; 13. Science, Scepticism and Awe
14. The Service of Self and the Service of Kali15. Who or What is Selfish?; 16. Dreaming and Waking; 17. The Limits of Individualism; 18. The Vulnerable World and its Claims on Us; Notes; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910807246003321 |
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Midgley Mary <1919->
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| London, : Routledge, 2002 | ||
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The myths we live by / / Mary Midgley ; with a new foreword by the author
| The myths we live by / / Mary Midgley ; with a new foreword by the author |
| Autore | Midgley Mary <1919-> |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2011 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (297 p.) |
| Disciplina | 201/.3 |
| Collana | Routledge classics |
| Soggetto topico |
Myth - Social aspects - History
Civilization, Modern - Philosophy |
| ISBN |
1-136-80752-7
1-283-10375-3 9786613103758 1-136-80753-5 0-203-82832-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Mary Midgley The Myths We Live By; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Foreword To The Routledge Classics Edition; 1. How myths work; 2. Our place in the world; 3. Progress, science and modernity; 4. Thought has many forms; 5. The aims of reduction; 6. Dualistic dilemmas; 7. Motives, materialism and megalomania; 8. What action is; 9. Tidying the inner scene: why memes?; 10. The sleep of reason produces monsters; 11. Getting rid of the ego; 12. Cultural evolution?; 13. Selecting the selectors; 14. Is reason sex-linked?; 15. The journey from freedom to desolation
16. Biotechnology and the yuk factor17. The new alchemy; 18. The supernatural engineer; 19. Heaven and earth, an awkward history; 20. Science looks both ways; 21. Are you an animal?; 22. Problems about parsimony; 23. Denying animal consciousness; 24. Beasts versus the biosphere?; 25. Some practical dilemmas; 26. Problems of living with otherness; 27. Changing ideas of wildness; Notes; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910808076003321 |
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Midgley Mary <1919->
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| Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2011 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The myths we live by / / Mary Midgley
| The myths we live by / / Mary Midgley |
| Autore | Midgley Mary <1919-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2003 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (203 p.) |
| Disciplina | 191 |
| Soggetto topico |
Myth
Symbolism Philosophy |
| ISBN |
1-134-39252-4
1-134-39253-2 1-280-04707-0 9786610047079 0-203-48092-9 |
| Classificazione | 08.32 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | How myths work -- Our place in the world -- Progress, science and modernity -- Thought has many forms -- The aims of reduction -- Dualistic dilemmas -- Motives, materialism and megalomania -- What is action -- Tidying the inner scene : why memes? -- The sleep of reason produces monsters -- Getting rid of the ego -- Cultural evolution? -- Selecting the selectors -- Is reason sex-linked? -- The journey from freedom to desolation -- Biotechnology and the yuk factor -- The new alchemy -- The supernatural engineer -- Heaven and earth, an awkward history -- Science looks both ways -- Are you an animal? -- Problems about parsimony -- Denying animal consciousness -- Beasts versus the biosphere? -- Some practical dilemmas -- Problems of living with otherness -- Changing ideas of wildness |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910348227203321 |
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Midgley Mary <1919->
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| London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2003 | ||
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Science and poetry [[electronic resource] /] / Mary Midgley
| Science and poetry [[electronic resource] /] / Mary Midgley |
| Autore | Midgley Mary <1919-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London, : Routledge, 2001 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (233 p.) |
| Disciplina | 509 |
| Soggetto topico |
Science - Philosophy
Science - Methodology |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-280-32649-2
9786610326495 0-203-24438-9 0-203-18794-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
SCIENCE AND POETRY; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; PART I Visions of rationality; 1 The sources of thought; 2 Knowledge considered as weed-killer; 3 Rationality and rainbows; 4 The shape of disillusion; 5 Atomistic visions: the quest for permanence; 6 Memes and other unusual life-forms; PART II Mind and body: the end of apartheid; 7 Putting our selves together again; 8 Living in the world; 9 The strange persistence of fatalism; 10 Chessboards and presidents of the immortals; 11 Doing science on purpose; 12 One world, but a big one
13 A plague on both their houses14 Being scientific about our selves; PART III In what kind of world?; 15 Widening responsibilities; 16 The problem of humbug; 17 Individualism and the concept of Gaia; 18 Gods and goddesses: the role of wonder; 19 Why there is such a thing as society; 20 Paradoxes of sociobiology and social Darwinism; 21 Mythology, rhetoric and religion; Notes; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910450321003321 |
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Midgley Mary <1919->
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| London, : Routledge, 2001 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Science and poetry [[electronic resource] /] / Mary Midgley
| Science and poetry [[electronic resource] /] / Mary Midgley |
| Autore | Midgley Mary <1919-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London, : Routledge, 2001 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (233 p.) |
| Disciplina | 509 |
| Soggetto topico |
Science - Philosophy
Science - Methodology |
| ISBN |
1-134-55954-2
1-280-32649-2 9786610326495 0-203-24438-9 0-203-18794-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
SCIENCE AND POETRY; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; PART I Visions of rationality; 1 The sources of thought; 2 Knowledge considered as weed-killer; 3 Rationality and rainbows; 4 The shape of disillusion; 5 Atomistic visions: the quest for permanence; 6 Memes and other unusual life-forms; PART II Mind and body: the end of apartheid; 7 Putting our selves together again; 8 Living in the world; 9 The strange persistence of fatalism; 10 Chessboards and presidents of the immortals; 11 Doing science on purpose; 12 One world, but a big one
13 A plague on both their houses14 Being scientific about our selves; PART III In what kind of world?; 15 Widening responsibilities; 16 The problem of humbug; 17 Individualism and the concept of Gaia; 18 Gods and goddesses: the role of wonder; 19 Why there is such a thing as society; 20 Paradoxes of sociobiology and social Darwinism; 21 Mythology, rhetoric and religion; Notes; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910782939103321 |
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Midgley Mary <1919->
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| London, : Routledge, 2001 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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