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Wisdom, Information and Wonder 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... »
Myths We Live By We are encouraged to think that the language of science opposes myth, but does it? Mary Midgley argues in her new book that far from being the opposite of sc... »
Utopias, Dolphins and Computers In this text, Mary Midgley looks at the chronic difficulties of thinking straight about large-scale problems. Philosophy, she argues, offers a way to solve s... »
Science And Poetry Is science the only way to understand the world and are genes us?Renowned moral philosopher Mary Midgley tackles these pressing questions andmore in her powe... »
The Myths We Live by Mary Midgley argues in her powerful new book that far from being the oppositeof science myth is a central part of it. In brilliant prose she claims thatmyths... »