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  • af Mary Midgley
    1.587,95 kr.

    In an impassioned defence of the importance of our own thoughts, feelings and experiences, the renowned philosopher Mary Midgley shows that there's much more to our selves than a jumble of brain cells. Exploring the remarkable gap that has opened up between our understanding of our sense of self and today's science, Midgley argues powerfully and persuasively that the rich variety of our imaginative life cannot be contained in the narrow bounds of a highly puritanical materialism that simply equates brain and self.Engaging with the work of prominent thinkers, Midgley investigates the source of our current attitudes to the self and reveals how ideas, traditions and myths have been twisted to fit in, seemingly naturally, with science's current preoccupation with the physical and material. Midgley shows that the subjective sources of thought - our own experiences - are every bit as necessary in helping to explain the world as the objective ones such as brain cells.Are You an Illusion? offers a salutary analysis of science's claim to have done away with the self and a characteristic injection of common sense from one of our most respected philosophers into a debate increasingly in need of it.This Routledge Classics edition includes a new Foreword by Stephen Cave.

  • af Mary Midgley
    253,95 - 1.579,95 kr.

    Renowned philosopher Mary Midgley explores the remarkable gap that has opened up between our own understanding of our sense of our self and today's scientific orthodoxy that claims the self to be nothing more than an elaborate illusion.

  • af Mary Midgley
    302,95 kr.

  • af Mary Midgley
    218,95 - 853,95 kr.

  • af Mary Midgley
    317,95 kr.

    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.

  • - Darwin and the Selfish Gene
    af Mary Midgley
    537,95 - 1.854,95 kr.

    Explores the nature of our moral constitution to challenge the view that reduces human motivation to self-interest. This title argues that simple, one-sided accounts of human motives, such as the 'selfish gene' tendency in neo-Darwinian thought, may be illuminating but are always unrealistic.

  • - Humans, Freedom and Morality
    af Mary Midgley
    505,95 - 1.819,95 kr.

    Mary Midgley argues that our evolutionary origin, properly understood, both explains why and how human freedom and morality have come about.

  • - Strange Hopes and Stranger Fears
    af Mary Midgley
    246,95 - 1.097,95 kr.

    In "Evolution as a Religion", Mary Midgley examines how science comes to be used as a substitute for religion and points out how badly that role distorts it. She exposes the illogical logic of poor doctrines that shelter themselves behind the prestige of science.

  • - The Roots of Human Nature
    af Mary Midgley
    285,95 - 1.097,95 kr.

    In this major work, Mary Midgley, one of our foremost intellectuals tells us that humans are rather more like animals than we have previously allowed ourselves to believe.

  • - The Varieties of Moral Experience
    af Mary Midgley
    152,95 - 1.373,95 kr.

    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.

  • - Problems in Philosophical Plumbing
    af Mary Midgley
    540,95 kr.

    Why do the big philosophical questions so often strike us as far-fetched and little to do with everyday life? Mary Midgley shows that there is a need for philosophy in the real world.

  • - A Modern Myth and its Meaning
    af Mary Midgley
    381,95 kr.

    Midgley notes how science has developed high spiritual ambitions. From prophetic physicists have come speculations that go beyond the claims of any religion.

  • af Mary Midgley
    300,95 - 1.487,95 kr.

    Mary Midgley argues in her powerful new book that far from being the opposite of science, myth is a central part of it. A tour de force of clear thinking on why we are more than the sum of our molecules, The Myths We Live By is essential reading.

  • - What is Knowledge For?
    af Mary Midgley
    549,95 - 2.012,95 kr.

    This treatise on the question of knowledge challenges readers to re-examine the protective barriers built to isolate "science" from other forms of enquiry. The author shows her concern with the plight of education and institutionalized knowledge, and the fate of learning in the future.

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