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Heart and Mind

The Varieties of Moral Experience

By: Mary Midgley

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Heart and Mind

The Varieties of Moral Experience

By: Mary Midgley

Midgley addresses herself to the problems of moral philosophy and psychology, examining the way we think of ourselves and how this affects our lives.

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Psychology Press

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0415304490

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Beast and Man

The Roots of Human Nature

By: Mary Midgley

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Beast and Man

The Roots of Human Nature

By: Mary Midgley

Philosophers have traditionally concentrated on the qualities that make human beings different from other species. In Beast and Man Mary Midgley, one of our foremost intellectuals, stresses continuities. What makes people tick? Largely, she asserts, the same things as animals. She tells us humans are rather more like other animals than we previously allowed ourselves to believe, and reminds us just how primitive we are in comparison to the sophistication of many animals. A veritable classic for our age, Beast and Man has helped change the way we think about ourselves and the world in which we live.

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1134438451

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Science and Poetry

By: Mary Midgley

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Science and Poetry

By: Mary Midgley

Crude materialism, reduction of mind to body, extreme individualism. All products of a 17th century scientific inheritance which looks at the parts of our existence at the expense of the whole. Cutting through myths of scientific omnipotence, Mary Midgley explores how this inheritance has so powerfully shaped the way we are, and the problems it has brought with it. She argues that poetry and the arts can help reconcile these problems, and counteract generations of 'one-eyed specialists', unable and unwilling to look beyond their own scientific or literary sphere. Dawkins, Atkins, Bacon and Descartes all come under fire as Midgely sears through contemporary debate, from Gaia to memes, and organic food to greenhouse gases. After years of unquestioned imperialism, science is finally forced to take a step back and acknowledge the arts.

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1134559542

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Wickedness

By: Dr Mary Midgley,Mary Midgley

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Wickedness

By: Dr Mary Midgley,Mary Midgley

Part of the new Routledge Classics series We have sold over 30,000 copies of Mary's books to date Mary Midgley's lucid volume is a classic critique of a much-neglected philosophical problem. Includes a new preface written especially for this edition She is one of the best known philosophers in the UK and writes regularly for newspapers and radio. She was recently the feature of a double-page spread in The Guardian and in 2001 has already been interviewed on Radio 4's The Moral Maze and the BBC World Service Her most recent book, Science and Poetry (Routledge, December 2000) has been widely and positively reviewed

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1134522177

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The Ethical Primate

Humans, Freedom and Morality

By: Mary Midgley

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The Ethical Primate

Humans, Freedom and Morality

By: Mary Midgley

In The Ethical Primate, Mary Midgley, 'one of the sharpest critical pens in the West' according to the Times Literary Supplement, addresses the fundamental question of human freedom. Scientists and philosophers have found it difficult to understand how each human-being can be a living part of the natural world and still be free. Midgley explores their responses to this seeming paradox and argues that our evolutionary origin explains both why and how human freedom and morality have come about.

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113482694X

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Wisdom, Information and Wonder

What is Knowledge For?

By: Mary Midgley

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Wisdom, Information and Wonder

What is Knowledge For?

By: Mary Midgley

In this book one of Britain's leading philosophers tackles a question at the root of our civilisation: What is knowledge for? Midgley rejects the fragmentary and specialized way in which information is conveyed in the high-tech world, and criticizes conceptions of philosophy that support this mode of thinking.

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1134971915

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Evolution as a Religion

Strange Hopes and Stranger Fears

By: Mary Midgley

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Evolution as a Religion

Strange Hopes and Stranger Fears

By: Mary Midgley

According to a profile in The Guardian, Mary Midgley is 'the foremost scourge of scientific pretensions in this country; someone whose wit is admired even by those who feel she sometimes oversteps the mark'. Considered one of Britain's finest philosophers, Midgley exposes the illogical logic of poor doctrines that shelter themselves behind the prestige of science. Always at home when taking on the high priests of evolutionary theory - Dawkins, Wilson and their acolytes - she has famously described evolution as 'the creation-myth of our age'. In Evolution as a Religion, she examines how science comes to be used as a substitute for religion and points out how badly that role distorts it. As ever, her argument is flawlessly insightful: a punchy, compelling, lively indictment of these misuses of science. Both the book and its author are true classics of our time.

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The Essential Mary Midgley

By: Mary Midgley

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The Essential Mary Midgley

By: Mary Midgley

This anthology includes carefully chosen selections from her best-selling books, including Wickedness, Beast and Man, Science and Poetry and The Myths We Live By. An unrivalled introduction to a great philosopher, and includes a.

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Psychology Press

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041534641X

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Animals and why They Matter

By: Mary Midgley

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Animals and why They Matter

By: Mary Midgley

Animals and Why They Matter examines the barriers that our philosophical traditions have erected between human beings and animals and reveals that the too-often ridiculed subject of animal rights is an issue crucially related to such problems within the human community as racism, sexism, and age discrimination. Mary Midgley's profound and clearly written narrative is a thought-provoking study of the way in which the opposition between reason and emotion has shaped our moral and political ideas and the problems it has raised. Whether considering vegetarianism, women's rights, or the "humanity" of pets, this book goes to the heart of the question of why all animals matter.

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The Essential Mary Midgley

By: Mary Midgley

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The Essential Mary Midgley

By: Mary Midgley

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Are You an Illusion?

By: Mary Midgley

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Are You an Illusion?

By: Mary Midgley

In an impassioned defence of the importance of our own thoughts, feelings and experiences, the renowned philosopher Mary Midgley shows that there’s much more to our selves than a jumble of brain cells. Exploring the remarkable gap that has opened up between our understanding of our sense of self and today’s science, Midgley argues powerfully and persuasively that the rich variety of our imaginative life cannot be contained in the narrow bounds of a highly puritanical materialism that simply equates brain and self. Engaging with the work of prominent thinkers, Midgley investigates the source of our current attitudes to the self and reveals how ideas, traditions and myths have been twisted to fit in, seemingly naturally, with science’s current preoccupation with the physical and material. Midgley shows that the subjective sources of thought – our own experiences – are every bit as necessary in helping to explain the world as the objective ones such as brain cells. Are You an Illusion? offers a salutary analysis of science’s claim to have done away with the self and a characteristic injection of common sense from one of our most respected philosophers into a debate increasingly in need of it. This Routledge Classics edition includes a new Foreword by Stephen Cave.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000966917

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The Myths We Live By

By: Mary Midgley

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The Myths We Live By

By: Mary Midgley

With a new Introduction by the author 'An elegant and sane little book. – The New Statesman Myths, as Mary Midgley argues in this powerful book, are everywhere. In political thought they sit at the heart of theories of human nature and the social contract; in economics in the pursuit of self interest; and in science the idea of human beings as machines, which originates in the seventeenth century, is a today a potent force. Far from being the opposite of science, however, Midgley argues that myth is a central part of it. Myths are neither lies nor mere stories but a network of powerful symbols for interpreting the world. Tackling a dazzling array of subjects such as philosophy, evolutionary psychology, animals, consciousness and the environment in her customary razor-sharp prose, The Myths We Live By reminds us of the powerful role of symbolism and the need to take our imaginative life seriously. Mary Midgley is a moral philosopher and the author of many books including Wickedness, Evolution as a Religion, Beast and Man and Science and Poetry. All are published in Routledge Classics.

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Wickedness

A Philosophical Essay

By: Mary Midgley

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Wickedness

A Philosophical Essay

By: Mary Midgley

To look into the darkness of the human soul is a frightening venture. Here Mary Midgley does so, with her customary brilliance and clarity. In Wickedness she sets out to delineate not so much the nature of wickedness as its actual sources. Midgley's analysis proves that the capacity for real wickedness is an inevitable part of human nature. This is not however a blanket acceptance of evil. She provides us with a framework that accepts its existence yet offers humankind the possibility of rejecting this part of our nature. Out of this dark journey she returns with an offering to us: an understanding of human nature that enhances our very humanity. To read Wickedness is to understand Mary Midgley's reputation as one of the world's greatest moral philosophers.

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0415255511

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Owl of Minerva

A Memoir

By: Mary Midgley

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Owl of Minerva

A Memoir

By: Mary Midgley

An insight into the life of one of the UK’s best-known philosophers Big Guardian profile. Appeared on Woman’s Hour and the Moral Maze several times Sales of The Myths we Live By in hb were over 2,000 and had excellent review coverage in the UK Sales of Mary’s books overall are now over 50,000

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Science as Salvation

A Modern Myth and its Meaning

By: Mary Midgley

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Science as Salvation

A Modern Myth and its Meaning

By: Mary Midgley

What is the role of scientists in society? What should we think when they talk about more than just science? Mary Midgley discusses the high spiritual ambitions which tend to gather around the notion of science.

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1134841167

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Can't We Make Moral Judgements?

By: Mary Midgley

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Can't We Make Moral Judgements?

By: Mary Midgley

How many times do we hear the statement 'It's not for me to judge'? It conveys one of the most popular ideas of our time: that to make judgements of others is essentially wrong. In this classic text, the renowned moral philosopher Mary Midgely turns a spotlight on the ever popular stance in society that we should not make moral judgements on others. Guiding the reader through the diverse approaches to this complex subject, she interrogates our strong beliefs about such things as the value of freedom that underlie our scepticism about making moral judgements. She shows how the question of whether or not we can make these judgements must inevitably affect our attitudes not only to the law and its institutions but also to events that occur in our daily lives, and suggests that mistrust of moral judgements may be making life even harder for us than it would be otherwise. The texts and philosophers discussed range from Nietzsche and Sartre to P.D. James and the Bhagavad Gita. The Bloomsbury Revelations edition includes a new preface from the author.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1474297986

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The Solitary Self

Darwin and the Selfish Gene

By: Mary Midgley

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The Solitary Self

Darwin and the Selfish Gene

By: Mary Midgley

Renowned philosopher Mary Midgley explores the nature of our moral constitution to challenge the view that reduces human motivation to self-interest. Midgley argues cogently and convincingly that simple, one-sided accounts of human motives, such as the 'selfish gene' tendency in recent neo-Darwinian thought, may be illuminating but are always unrealistic. Such neatness, she shows, cannot be imposed on human psychology. She returns to Darwin's original writings to show how the reductive individualism which is now presented as Darwinism does not derive from Darwin but from a wider, Hobbesian tradition in Enlightenment thinking. She reveals the selfish gene hypothesis as a cultural accretion that is just not seen in nature. Heroic independence is not a realistic aim for Homo sapiens. We are, as Darwin saw, earthly organisms, framed to interact constantly with one another and with the complex ecosystems of which we are a tiny part. For us, bonds are not just restraints but also lifelines.

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1317488245

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Earthy Realism

The Meaning of Gaia

By: Mary Midgley

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Earthy Realism

The Meaning of Gaia

By: Mary Midgley

GAIA, named after the ancient Greek mother-goddess, is the notion that the Earth and the life on it form an active, self-maintaining whole. By its use of personification it attacks the view that the physical world is inert and lifeless. It has a scientific side, as shown by the new university departments of earth science which bring biology and geology together to study the continuity of the cycle. It also has a visionary or spiritual aspect. What the contributors to this book believe is needed is to bring these two angles together. With global warming now an accepted fact, the lessons of GAIA have never been more relevant and urgent.

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Andrews UK Limited

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1845403851

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Wickedness

By: Dr Mary Midgley,Mary Midgley

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Wickedness

By: Dr Mary Midgley,Mary Midgley

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The Myths We Live By

By: Mary Midgley

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By: Mary Midgley

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1136807535

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Climate Change

Briefings from Southern Africa

By: Mary Scholes,Robert (Bob) Scholes,Mike Lucas

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Climate Change

Briefings from Southern Africa

By: Mary Scholes,Robert (Bob) Scholes,Mike Lucas

Climate change affects us all, but it can be a confusing business. In this book, three scientists with several decades of experience in assessing the potential effects of climate change for the southern African region share their insights. Complex issues are dealt with in plain language, without oversimplification and with attention to accuracy. The material is up-to-date as is possible in such a fast-developing field. Climate Change: Briefings from Southern Africa takes the form of 55 'frequently-asked' questions', each with a brief and clear reply. It is illustrated with colour diagrams and photographs, and examples are tailored to the regional context. The authors' introduction provides an overview of current national and international policies aimed at regulating climate change. The content is divided into four sections, which take the reader through the science of how climate system works; the projected impacts in southern Africa during the twenty-first century; what this means for the South African economy and society; and what can be done to avoid harm. The briefings can be read alone or in sequence. The year 2015 is regarded as a watershed for global climate change action if a global average temperature rise of more than two degrees abbove the pre-Industrial level is to be avoided. This book provides compelling evidence that the impact on agriculture, fisheries, water resources, human health, plants and animals as well as sea levels will be dangerous. However, the book ends on a positive note by offering advice on how the world can avoid such bleak outcomes, while allowing a good life for all. The volume is aimed at interested non-scientists, including business people, decision-makers, ordinary citizens and students

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NYU Press

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1868149218

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Ariadne's Thread

The Search for New Modes of Thinking

By: Mary E. Clark

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Ariadne's Thread

The Search for New Modes of Thinking

By: Mary E. Clark

This book is a powerful, interdisciplinary introduction to environmental studies.

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0312015801

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Social Work Skills for Community Practice

Applied Macro Social Work

By: Mary-Ellen Brown, MSW, MPA, LCSW, PhD,Katie Stalker, MSW, PhD

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Social Work Skills for Community Practice

Applied Macro Social Work

By: Mary-Ellen Brown, MSW, MPA, LCSW, PhD,Katie Stalker, MSW, PhD

Focuses on skill-building to facilitate positive social change With straightforward content enriched by practical and applicable learning experiences, this comprehensive text prepares social work students for careers in community organizing and macro practice. It focuses on building the social work skills required for organizing communities, including cause-based coalitions, geographically/identity-based communities, and health and human service organizations, to achieve culturally relevant, equity- and justice-driven social change. The second edition presents new information that includes self-care for the community practitioner, social work grand challenges, cultural humility, community dialogue, trauma-informed and resiliency-focused community development, environmental justice, and many other topics. Emphasizing community practice through the application of macro, mezzo, and micro social work skills, the book uses frameworks drawn from generalist social work practice as well as core competencies identified by CSWE's EPAS. Its focus on a broad range of community practice models makes it accessible to all social workers. The text also highlights the importance of technology as a tool for social work macro practice with skill-building activities. Vivid case vignettes, applied and experiential learning activities, and team and individual-based assignments reinforce content and emphasize skill-building, along with abundant resources for further learning. New to the Second Edition: Presents a framework for self-care for the community practitioner Highlights the importance of community practitioner readiness, competency, and leadership Introduces a new trauma-informed and resiliency-focused approach for community development Discusses strategic compatibility for interorganizational collaboration Introduces youth-based participatory research and empowerment evaluations Key Features: Focuses on skill-building for community engagement and organizing, facilitating community dialogue, and conducting assessments Covers planning and implementing community change initiatives and evaluating and disseminating knowledge from change activities Provides case vignettes to reinforce content and abundant resources for additional learning Offers a complete ancillary package that includes chapter PowerPoints, Test Bank, and an Instructor's Manual with suggested individual and group activities and more

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Springer Publishing Company

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0826158358

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Philosophical Perspectives on Social Cohesion

New Directions for Educational Policy

By: Mary Healy

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Philosophical Perspectives on Social Cohesion

New Directions for Educational Policy

By: Mary Healy

What would the civic relationship between citizens in a socially cohesive society look like? What models might we use to educate young people to support developing these bonds? Do these different models have different implications for how we structure the bonds that support a civic relationship? Philosophical Perspectives on Social Cohesion challenges the basis of how we characterize civic bonds and how we best organize schools to encourage and develop them. Mary Healy argues that metaphors and social imaginaries often give a framework for considering our interrelatedness. She re-examines the metaphor of fraternity, used as a precursor to elements of the 'Big Society', arguing that such attempts to align fraternity with liberty are mistaken and that equality plays a vital role. At a time of increasing diversity of school provision, this pertinent book indicates the connection between how we organize school structures and the models of citizenship we value.

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1441145567

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The History of Mary Prince

By: Mary Prince

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The History of Mary Prince

By: Mary Prince

I have been a slave - I have felt what a slave feels, and I know what a slave knows ...' Mary Prince recalls that in the slave market in Bermuda, where she was put up for sale, the buyers' talk 'fell like cayenne pepper into the fresh wounds of our hearts'. During her life as a slave she was taken from Bermuda to Turks Island and Antigua, eventually arriving in London where, in 1828, she reported the cruelty of her master and mistress to the Anti-Slavery Society. The History of Mary Prince (1831) was the first life of a black woman to be published in Britain. This extraordinary testament of ill-treatment and survival was a protest and a rallying-cry for emancipation that provoked two libel actions and ran into three editions in the year of its publication. This edition includes an introduction which discusses The History within the context of black writing, explanatory notes, a chronology, and supplementary material on enslavement and the case of Mary Prince.

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1101158549

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Living in a Technological Culture

Human Tools and Human Values

By: Hans Oberdiek,Mary Tiles

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Living in a Technological Culture

Human Tools and Human Values

By: Hans Oberdiek,Mary Tiles

Technology is no longer confined to the laboratory but has become an established part of our daily lives. Its sophistication offers us power beyond our human capacity which can either dazzle or threaten; it depends who is in control. Living in a Technological Culture challenges traditionally held assumptions about the relationship between `man-and-machine'. It argues that contemporary science does not shape technology but is shaped by it. Neither discipline exists in a moral vacuum, both are determined by politics rather than scientific inquiry. By questioning our existing uses of technology, this book opens up wider debate on the shape of things to come and whether we should be trying to change them now. As an introduction to the philosophy of technology this will be valuable to students, but will be equally engaging for the general reader.

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1134911165

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In Search of Human Nature

By: Mary E. Clark

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In Search of Human Nature

By: Mary E. Clark

Human Nature offers a wide-ranging and holistic view of human nature from all perspectives: scientific, historical, and sociological. Mary Clark takes the most recent data from a dozen or more fields, and works it together with clarifying anecdotes and thought-provoking images to challenge conventional Western beliefs with hopeful new insights. Balancing the theories of cutting-edge neuroscience with the insights of primitive mythologies, Mary Clark provides down-to-earth suggestions for peacefully resolving global problems. Human Nature builds up a coherent, and above all positive, picture of who we really are.

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113444768X

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Envoys of abolition

British Naval Officers and the Campaign Against the Slave Trade in West Africa

By: Mary Wills

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Envoys of abolition

British Naval Officers and the Campaign Against the Slave Trade in West Africa

By: Mary Wills

Drawing on substantial collections of previously unpublished papers, this book examines personal experiences of British naval officers employed in suppressing the transatlantic slave trade from West Africa in the nineteenth century. It illuminates cultural encounters, the complexities of British abolitionism, and extraordinary military service at sea and in African territories.

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Liverpool University Press

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1789624908

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Moral Status

Obligations to Persons and Other Living Things

By: Mary Anne Warren

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Moral Status

Obligations to Persons and Other Living Things

By: Mary Anne Warren

Mary Anne Warren explores a theoretical question which lies at the heart of practical ethics: what are the criteria for having moral status? In other words, what are the criteria for being an entity towards which people have moral obligations? Some philosophers maintain that there is one intrinsic property—for instance, life, sentience, humanity, or moral agency. Others believe that relational properties, such as belonging to a human community, are more important. In Part I of the book, Warren argues that no single property can serve as the sole criterion for moral status; instead, life, sentience, moral agency, and social and biotic relationships are all relevant, each in a different way. She presents seven basic principles, each focusing on a property that can, in combination with others, legitimately affect an agent's moral obligations towards entities of a given type. In Part II, these principles are applied in an examination of three controversial ethical issues: voluntary euthanasia, abortion

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Clarendon Press

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0191588156

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9780191588150

Pantheologies

Gods, Worlds, Monsters

By: Mary-Jane Rubenstein

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Pantheologies

Gods, Worlds, Monsters

By: Mary-Jane Rubenstein

Pantheism is the idea that God and the world are identical—that the creator, sustainer, destroyer, and transformer of all things is the universe itself. From a monotheistic perspective, this notion is irremediably heretical since it suggests divinity might be material, mutable, and multiple. Since the excommunication of Baruch Spinoza, Western thought has therefore demonized what it calls pantheism, accusing it of incoherence, absurdity, and—with striking regularity—monstrosity. In this book, Mary-Jane Rubenstein investigates this perennial repugnance through a conceptual genealogy of pantheisms. What makes pantheism “monstrous”—at once repellent and seductive—is that it scrambles the raced and gendered distinctions that Western philosophy and theology insist on drawing between activity and passivity, spirit and matter, animacy and inanimacy, and creator and created. By rejecting the fundamental difference between God and world, pantheism threatens all the other oppositions that stem from it: light versus darkness, male versus female, and humans versus every other organism. If the panic over pantheism has to do with a fear of crossed boundaries and demolished hierarchies, then the question becomes what a present-day pantheism might disrupt and what it might reconfigure. Cobbling together heterogeneous sources—medieval heresies, their pre- and anti-Socratic forebears, general relativity, quantum mechanics, nonlinear biologies, multiverse and indigenous cosmologies, ecofeminism, animal and vegetal studies, and new and old materialisms—Rubenstein assembles possible pluralist pantheisms. By mobilizing this monstrous mixture of unintentional God-worlds, Pantheologies gives an old heresy the chance to renew our thinking.

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