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100 1 _aMidgley, Mary,
_d1919-
245 1 4 _aThe myths we live by
_h[electronic resource] /
_cMary Midgley.
260 _aLondon ;
_aNew York :
_bRoutledge,
_c2003.
300 _ax, 192 p.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 176-184) and index.
505 0 _aHow 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
590 _aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
650 0 _aMyth.
650 0 _aSymbolism.
650 0 _aPhilosophy.
655 4 _aElectronic books.
710 2 _aProQuest (Firm)
797 2 _aProQuest (Firm)
856 4 0 _uhttp://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/daystar-ebooks/detail.action?docID=235286
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