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1 online resource (266 pages) |
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Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy |
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Routledge studies in contemporary philosophy.
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""Cover""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Introduction""; ""Part I Animals and Environments""; ""1 Animals, Attitudes and Moral Theories""; ""2 Animals Real and Virtual""; ""3 The Mixed Community""; ""4 How Pigs Talk: The Need for �Earthy Realism�""; ""Part II Human Nature""; ""5 Beast and Man�Thirty-Five Years On""; ""6 Is There Such a Thing as Consensus Morality?""; ""Part III Minds, Human and Animal""; ""7 Extended Minds and the Nature of Seeing""; ""8 Naturalism, Science and the Philosophy of Mind"" |
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""9 Minding Animals""""Part IV Science and Evolution""; ""10 Doing Science an Injustice: Midgley on Scientism""; ""11 Genes and Geniality: Dawkins, Midgley, and The Selfish Gene""; ""12 Was Plato a Gorilla? Mary Midgley�s Search for a Metaphysics of Evolution""; ""Part V Women and the World""; ""13 On Being a �Full-time Feminist�: Midgley and Feminist Philosophy""; ""14 �Slipping Out Over the Wall�: Midgley, Anscombe, Foot and Murdoch""; ""Afterword""; ""The Works of Mary Midgley, compiled""; ""Contributors""; ""Index"" |
| Summary |
Mary Midgley is one of the most important moral philosophers working today. Over the last thirty years, her writings have informed debates concerning animals, the environment and evolutionary theory. The invited essays in this volume offer critical reflections upon Midgley's work and further developments of her ideas. The contributors include many of the leading commentators on her work, including distinguished figures from the disciplines of philosophy, biology, and ethology. The range of topics includes the moral status of animals, the concept of wickedness, science and mythology, Midgley's |
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Print version record |
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Midgley, Mary, 1919-2018.
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Midgley, Mary, 1919-2018 fast |
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Philosophy, English -- 20th century.
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Philosophy, British -- 20th century
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Animals.
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Human beings.
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Ethics.
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Homo sapiens (species)
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ethics (philosophy)
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Animals
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Ethics
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Human beings
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Philosophy, British
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Philosophy, English
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Electronic book
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McKinnell, Liz
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| ISBN |
9781317482932 |
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131748293X |
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