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_a9780203480922 _q(e-book : PDF) |
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_a9781134392483 _q(e-book: Mobi) |
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_z9780415309066 _q(hardback) |
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_a10.4324/9780203480922 _2doi |
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_aBL304 _b.M53 2003 |
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_a919 _bM629 |
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_aMidgley, Mary, _d1919-, _eauthor _923705 |
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_aThe myths we live by / _cMary Midgley. |
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_aLondon ; _aNew York : _bRoutledge, _c2003. |
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300 | _a1 online resource (x, 192 pages) | ||
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_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia |
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_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier |
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504 | _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 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. | |
650 | 0 | _aMyth. | |
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_aSymbolism. _92874 |
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650 | 0 | _aPhilosophy. | |
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_iPrint version: _z9780415309066 |
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_uhttps://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781134392537 _zClick here to view. |
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