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Science as Salvation
Science as Salvation
A Modern Myth And Its Meaning »
 
 
 
 
 

Beast And Man
Beast And Man
Philosophers have traditionally concentrated on the qualities that make human beings different from other species. In Beast and Man Mary Midgley stresses con... »
 
 
 
 
 

Utopias, Dolphins and Computers
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... »
 
 
 
 
 

Earthy Realism
Earthy Realism
The Meaning of Gaia »
 
 
 
 
 

Animals And Why They Matter
Animals And Why They Matter
Animals and Why They Matter »
 
 
 
 
 

Heart And Mind
Heart And Mind
The Varieties Of Moral Experience »
 
 
 
 
 

The Myths We Live by
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... »
 
 
 
 
 

Owl Of Minerva
Owl Of Minerva
The mother of three children, her journey is also one of a woman who in the 1950s and 1960s was fighting to combine a professional career with raising a family. »
 
 
 
 
 

The Myths We Live By
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... »