- Bib ID:
- 995651
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Midgley, Mary, 1919-
- Description:
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- London ; New York : Routledge, 2003
- x, 192 p. ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0415309069
- Full contents:
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- 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 factor
- 17. 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:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
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- Copyright:
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- Until 2089 [Creator Date of Death + 70 Years]
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- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 2019
- Published status:
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- Publication date:
- 2003
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