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Science and Poetry de Mary Midgley

Science and Poetry

Autor Mary Midgley
en Limba Engleză Paperback – feb 2006
In this typically crusading work, universally acclaimed as a classic on first publication, Midgley asserts her corrective view that without poetry (or literature, or music, or history, or even theology) we cannot hope to understand our humanity.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780415378482
ISBN-10: 0415378486
Pagini: 328
Ilustrații: black & white illustrations
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

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Notă biografică

Mary Midgley (1919-2018) is a popular moral philosopher and has been described by The Guardian as "the foremost scourge of scientific pretension in this country." She has recently completed her autobiography, The Owl of Minerva (Routledge, 2005).

Cuprins

Part 1: Visions of Rationality  1. The Sources of Thought  2. Knowledge Considered as Weed-Killer  3. Rationality and Rainbows  4. The Origin of Disillusion  5. Atomistic Dreams - The Quest for Permanence  6. Memes and Other Unusual Life-Forms
Part 2: Mind and Body - The End of Apartheid  7. Putting Our Selves Together Again  8. Living in the World  9. The Strange Persistence of Fatalism  10. Chess-Boards and Presidents of the Immortals  11. Doing Science on Purpose  12. One World but a Big One  13 A Plague on both their Houses  14. Being Scientific about Our Selves
Part 3: In What Kind of World?  15. Widening Responsibilities  16. The Problem of Humbug  17. Individualism and the Concept of Gaia  18. Gods and Goddesses - The Role of Wonder  19. Why There is Such a Thing as Society?  20. Paradoxes of Sociobiology and Social Darwinism  21. Mythology, Rhetoric and Religion

Recenzii

‘A fiercely combative philosopher … our foremost scourge of scientific pretension.’ ߝ The Guardian

Descriere

In this typically crusading work, universally acclaimed as a classic on first publication, Midgley asserts her corrective view that without poetry (or literature, or music, or history, or even theology) we cannot hope to understand our humanity.