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020 _a9780203480922
_q(e-book : PDF)
020 _a9781134392483
_q(e-book: Mobi)
020 _a9781134392520
_q(e-book: ePub)
020 _z9780415309066
_q(hardback)
020 _z9780415340779
_q(paperback)
024 7 _a10.4324/9780203480922
_2doi
035 _a(OCoLC)252883036
050 4 _aBL304
_b.M53 2003
082 0 4 _a919
_bM629
100 1 _aMidgley, Mary,
_d1919-,
_eauthor
_923705
245 1 4 _aThe myths we live by /
_cMary Midgley.
264 1 _aLondon ;
_aNew York :
_bRoutledge,
_c2003.
300 _a1 online resource (x, 192 pages)
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
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.
650 0 _aSymbolism.
_92874
650 0 _aPhilosophy.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_z9780415309066
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781134392537
_zClick here to view.
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