TY  - BOOK
AU  - Midgley,Mary
ED  - ProQuest (Firm)
TI  - The myths we live by
SN  - 9780203480922
AV  - BL304 .M53 2003
U1  - 191 21
PY  - 2003///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Myth
KW  - Symbolism
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 176-184) and index; 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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ER  -