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 |
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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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| 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. |
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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 |
9786610047079
9781134392520 1134392524 9781134392537 1134392532 9781280047077 1280047070 9780203480922 0203480929 |
| 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Wisdom, information, and wonder [[electronic resource] ] : what is knowledge for? / / Mary Midgley
| Wisdom, information, and wonder [[electronic resource] ] : what is knowledge for? / / Mary Midgley |
| Autore | Midgley Mary <1919-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1991 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (286 p.) |
| Disciplina |
100
121 |
| Soggetto topico |
Philosophy
Ordinary-language philosophy |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-134-97192-3
1-280-18220-2 0-203-00387-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Book Cover; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910455308303321 |
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| London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1991 | ||
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Wisdom, information, and wonder [[electronic resource] ] : what is knowledge for? / / Mary Midgley
| Wisdom, information, and wonder [[electronic resource] ] : what is knowledge for? / / Mary Midgley |
| Autore | Midgley Mary <1919-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1991 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (286 p.) |
| Disciplina |
100
121 |
| Soggetto topico |
Philosophy
Ordinary-language philosophy |
| ISBN |
1-134-97192-3
1-280-18220-2 0-203-00387-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Book Cover; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910780099703321 |
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| London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1991 | ||
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