The myths we live by / Mary Midgley.
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| Year of Publication: | 2003 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | x, 192 p. |
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| 100 | 1 | |a Midgley, Mary, |d 1919- | |
| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The myths we live by |h [electronic resource] / |c Mary Midgley. |
| 260 | |a London ; |a New York : |b Routledge, |c 2003. | ||
| 300 | |a x, 192 p. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 176-184) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a 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 | |
| 533 | |a Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a Myth. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Symbolism. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Philosophy. | |
| 655 | 4 | |a Electronic books. | |
| 710 | 2 | |a ProQuest (Firm) | |
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