Midgley, Mary,  1919- <br/><br/>
The myths we live by  [electronic resource] / 
Mary Midgley. 
 - London ;  New York :  Routledge,  2003. 
 - x, 192 p. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 176-184) and index. 
<br/><br/>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 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780203480922 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Myth.<br/>Symbolism.<br/>Philosophy.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BL304  / .M53 2003 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>191