The myths we live by

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Midgley, Mary, 1919-
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2003.
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245 1 4 |a The myths we live by  |h [electronic resource] /  |c Mary Midgley. 
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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 
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