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Mary Midgley (1919–2018)

Autore di Beast and Man: The Roots of Human Nature

25+ opere 1,694 membri 16 recensioni 1 preferito

Sull'Autore

Mary Midgley was born Mary Scrutton in Dulwich, England on September 13, 1919. She was educated at Oxford University. While raising her sons, she reviewed novels and children's books for The New Statesman. She returned to teaching philosophy in 1965 at the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne. She was mostra altro a moral philosopher who wrote numerous books including Beast and Man: The Roots of Human Nature, Evolution as a Religion, Science as Salvation: A Modern Myth and Its Meaning, Science and Poetry, The Owl of Minerva, and What Is Philosophy For? She died on October 10, 2018 at the age of 99. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
Fonte dell'immagine: Mary Midgley in 2010.

Serie

Opere di Mary Midgley

The Myths We Live By (2003) 236 copie
Science and Poetry (2000) 148 copie
Are You an Illusion? (2014) 40 copie

Opere correlate

The Sovereignty of Good (1970) — Prefazione, alcune edizioni532 copie
Uvod u etiku (1991) — Collaboratore — 385 copie
In Defence of Animals (1985) — Collaboratore — 196 copie
Feminism and Families (1996) — Collaboratore — 26 copie
Minds, Brains and Machines (Mind matters series) (1989) — Prefazione, alcune edizioni15 copie
Mad or Bad? (BCP Mind Matters S.) (1989) — Prefazione, alcune edizioni8 copie
Art or Bunk? (BCP Mind Matters) (1989) — Prefazione, alcune edizioni8 copie
Reasonable Care (Mind Matters) (1989) — Prefazione, alcune edizioni6 copie
Creation, Environment and Ethics (2010) — Prefazione — 4 copie
Can We Understand Animal Minds? (BCP Mind Matters) (1994) — Prefazione, alcune edizioni4 copie

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Informazioni generali

Nome canonico
Midgley, Mary
Nome legale
Midgley, Mary Beatrice
Altri nomi
Scrutton, Mary (birth name)
Data di nascita
1919-09-13
Data di morte
2018-10-10
Sesso
female
Nazionalità
UK
Luogo di nascita
Dulwich, London, England, UK
Luogo di morte
Jesmond, Tyne and Wear, England, UK
Luogo di residenza
Greenford, London, England, UK
Istruzione
University of Oxford (Somerville College)
Downe House School
Attività lavorative
philosopher
moral philosopher
professor
Relazioni
Murdoch, Iris (friend)
Midgley, Geoffrey (husband)
Organizzazioni
University of Newcastle Upon Tyne
Premi e riconoscimenti
Philosophy Now Award (2011)
Breve biografia
Mary Midgley, née Scrutton, was born in London, the daughter of a clergyman who served as a Cambridge University chaplain. She was educated at Downe House School, where she developed a love of philosophy and classics.
She attended Oxford University and graduated with first-class honors.
After graduation, she worked for the civil service, and as a teacher at Downe School and Bedford School. In 1947, she returned to Oxford for graduate studies, and then taught in the Philosophy Department of Reading University. In 1950, she married Geoffrey Midgley, with whom she had three children, and lived in Newcastle. She joined the Philosophy Department at Newcastle University in 1962, and taught there until she retired. She is the author of more than 15 books on science, ethics, and animal rights, including Beast and Man (1978), Evolution as a Religion (1985), Science as Salvation (1992) and Science and Poetry (2001). Her autobiography, The Owl of Minerva, was published in 2005.

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Read the first four chapters, some from the original English version and some from the Arabic version.
 
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AmmarAlyousfi | 3 altre recensioni | Aug 12, 2023 |
I'd give her more stars but she's mostly rebutting the most extreme reductionism. I was hoping for something more nuanced. This seems dated.
 
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Cr00 | Apr 1, 2023 |
Midgley is an important English philosopher.
 
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mykl-s | 1 altra recensione | Mar 24, 2023 |
Well worth reading to get a sense of why our current culture places so much "faith" in science. Modern science comes out of a tradition of looking for the spiritual in the organic world. The problem with many who have undying faith in science and subscribe to scientism is that many adherents assume a reductionist and trascendent trajectory that reifies the mind and intellect which dismisses our understanding of the biological: humans, like all species and integrated organisms that are not split into body, mind, spirit. Thus, the aspirations of many adherents to scientism that eventually humans will be evolve into a transcendent mind that is disembodied that uses the universe as its sole playground for shaping to its will is misguided from both a biological point of view and ethical point of view. It assumes that humans have more value than anything else in the universe. Midgely questions this ethic as do I.… (altro)
 
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ISBN
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