Mary Midgley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Mary Beatrice Midgley was a British philosopher. A senior lecturer in philosophy at Newcastle University, she was known for her work on science, ethics and animal rights. She wrote her first book, Beast and Man , when she was in her late fifties, and went on to write over 15 more, including Animals and Why They Matter , Wickedness , The Ethical Primate , Evolution as a Religion , and Science as Salvation . She was awarded honorary doctorates by Durham and Newcastle universities. Her autobiography, The Owl of Minerva, was published in 2005.
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- Sociobiology. (1984) (455)
- Beast and Man: The Roots of Human Nature (1980) (296)
- Animals and Why They Matter (1984) (205)
- The Moral Status of Animals. (1978) (195)
- ‘Beast and Man’ (1980) (151)
- Science and Poetry (2001) (145)
- The Myths We Live by (2003) (138)
- Science as Salvation: A Modern Myth and Its Meaning (1992) (132)
- Biotechnology and monstrosity. Why we should pay attention to the "yuk factor". (2000) (101)
- Within-program factors as predictors of drinking outcome following cognitive-behavioral treatment. (2000) (68)
- Wickedness: A Philosophical Essay (1984) (68)
- Wisdom, Information and Wonder: What Is Knowledge For? (1989) (67)
- Heart and Mind. (1983) (63)
- Evolution as a Religion: Strange Hopes and Stranger Fears (1985) (59)
- Heart and Mind: The Varieties of Moral Experience (1981) (58)
- Can't We Make Moral Judgements? (1991) (57)
- Utopias, Dolphins and Computers: Problems in Philosophical Plumbing (1996) (45)
- Fallen Freedom: Kant on Radical Evil and Moral Regeneration.Facing Evil (1990) (41)
- The Solitary Self: Darwin and the Selfish Gene (2014) (41)
- Over-exercising in anorexic and normal samples: Behaviour and attitudes (1993) (40)
- The Ethical Primate: Humans, Freedom and Morality (1994) (37)
- Rights, Killing and Suffering (1984) (36)
- Are You an Illusion (2014) (35)
- The End of Anthropocentrism? (1994) (29)
- Brutality and Sentimentality (1979) (26)
- Is ‘Moral’ A Dirty Word? (1972) (25)
- Selfish Genes and Social Darwinism (1983) (25)
- Trying Out One’s New Sword (2005) (24)
- Gaia: the Next Big Idea (2001) (23)
- Algorithmic shaping and misbehavior in the acquisition of token deposit by rats. (1989) (23)
- On life and death (1988) (22)
- The Objection to Systematic Humbug (1978) (22)
- Gene-juggling (1979) (21)
- The Role of Response-Reward Correlation in Stimulus-Response Overshadowing (1983) (19)
- The Concept of Beastliness: Philosophy, Ethics and Animal Behaviour (1973) (19)
- The Game Game (1974) (18)
- Towards an ethic of global responsibility (1999) (16)
- Beasts Versus the Biosphere (1992) (15)
- The stimulus-response overshadowing phenomenon with VI versus FI schedules of reinforcement (1984) (14)
- On Not Being Afraid of Natural Sex Differences (1988) (13)
- Owl of Minerva : A Memoir (2007) (12)
- Philosophical Plumbing (1992) (10)
- Reductivism, Fatalism and Sociobiology (1984) (10)
- Individualism and the concept of Gaia (2000) (10)
- Why The Idea Of Purpose Won't Go Away (2011) (10)
- Philosophical Plumbing (1992) (10)
- Are Families Out of Date (1997) (9)
- Women's Choices: Philosophical Problems Facing Feminism (1984) (9)
- An evaluation of two systems of in-patient care in a general hospital psychiatric unit. II: Measures of staff and patient performance. (1990) (9)
- Earthy Realism: The Meaning of Gaia (2012) (8)
- What About Values (1993) (8)
- Intelligent Design Theory and other ideological problems (2007) (8)
- SUSTAINABILITY AND MORAL PLURALISM (2003) (8)
- Varieties of Subjectivism (1993) (8)
- "The Four-Leggeds, the Two-Leggeds, and the Wingeds": An Overview of Society and Animals, 1, 1 (1993) (7)
- Staff do know best: Peer & therapist prediction of outcome following treatment for problem drinking (1997) (7)
- Mapping science: in memory of John Ziman (2005) (7)
- Pluralism in science: a statement (2001) (6)
- VISIONS OF EMBATTLED SCIENCE (1997) (6)
- DREAMING AND WAKING (2003) (6)
- The Absence of a Gap between Facts and Values (1980) (6)
- The Use and Uselessness of Learning (1990) (6)
- Rights‐talk Will Not Sort Out Child‐abuse: comment on Archard on parental rights (1991) (5)
- Are You an Animal (1989) (5)
- Darwinism, Purpose and Meaning (2011) (5)
- An evaluation of two systems of in-patient care in a general hospital psychiatric unit I: staff and patient perceptions and attitudes. (1992) (5)
- Dover Beach: Understanding the Pains of Bereavement (2006) (4)
- Visions, secular and sacred. (1995) (4)
- On the closeness of the concepts of the criminal and the mentally ill in the nineteenth century: Yesterday's opinions reflected today (1992) (4)
- Philosophy and the Natural Environment: The End of Anthropocentrism? (1994) (4)
- Can education be moral? (1996) (4)
- Altruism and Egoism (2004) (4)
- Science in the World (1996) (3)
- Being objective (2001) (3)
- The Evil That Men Think—And Do (1985) (3)
- The New Brain Sciences: Do we ever really act? (2004) (3)
- EVOLUTION AS A RELIGION: A COMPARISON OF PROPHECIES (1987) (3)
- Is the biosphere a luxury? (1992) (3)
- Determinism, omniscience, and the multiplicity of explanations (1999) (3)
- On Being Terrestrial (1984) (3)
- Human Ideals and Human Needs (1983) (3)
- Imagine there's no heaven (2006) (3)
- HOMUNCULUS TROUBLE, OR, WHAT IS APPLIED PHILOSOPHY? (1990) (2)
- Acknowledging our relatives (1996) (2)
- Pluralism: The Many Maps Model (2002) (2)
- Consequentialism and Common Sense (1980) (2)
- Purpose, Meaning and Darwinism (2009) (2)
- The Impulse to Philosophise: Philosophical Plumbing (1992) (2)
- Choosing the selectors (2002) (2)
- How Might We Live? Global Ethics in a New Century: Individualism and the Concept of Gaia (2001) (1)
- More About Reason, Commitment and Social Anthropology (1978) (1)
- Beastly beliefs (1994) (1)
- Why There Is Trouble Over Knowledge (1993) (1)
- Darwin's Central Problems (1995) (1)
- A Golden Manifesto, Part II (2016) (1)
- De-Dramatizing Darwinism (1984) (1)
- Must Good Causes Compete? (1993) (1)
- Alchemy revived. (2000) (1)
- Comments on “Sacrificial Symbolism in Animal Experimentation: Object or Pet?” By Arnold Arluke, with a Response by the Author (1989) (1)
- LettersWays of seeing (2006) (1)
- The Solitary Self: Introduction (2010) (1)
- Born free, but everywhere in zoos (1994) (1)
- Alchemy Revived@@@Clones and Clones: Facts and Fantasies about Human Cloning@@@Improving Nature? The Science and Ethics of Genetic Engineering@@@The Biotech Century: Harnessing the Gene and Remaking the World (2000) (1)
- Heaven and Earth: An Awkward History (2001) (1)
- THE NOTION OF INSTINCT (2003) (1)
- Zombies Can’t Concentrate (2004) (1)
- THE SOUL OF THE EMBRYO: AN ENQUIRY INTO THE STATUS OF THE HUMAN EMBRYO IN THE CHRISTIAN TRADITION by David Albert Jones, Continuum, London, 2004, Pp. 266, £16.99 hbk. (2005) (1)
- XII—The Neutrality of the Moral Philosopher (1974) (1)
- Love and its Disappointment (2009) (1)
- The selfish metaphor (2011) (1)
- The Flight from Blame (1987) (1)
- Attitudes to Animals: Should we let them go? (1999) (1)
- Concluding Reflections: Dover Beach Revisited (2008) (0)
- Midgley on Murdoch (1999) (0)
- Choose free will (2012) (0)
- The Fear of Society (1993) (0)
- Social Darwinist Egoism (1993) (0)
- Have We a Nature? (2021) (0)
- 7 Reason's just another faith (2008) (0)
- Souls, Minds, Bodies and Planets (2004) (0)
- We want to see your best 'OP Shop' buys (2014) (0)
- PHS volume 17 Cover and Front matter (1984) (0)
- Sympathy and Ethics: A Study of the Relationship between Sympathy and Morality with Special Reference to Hume's Treatise By Philip Mercer Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972, 138 pp., £2.40 (1973) (0)
- G: MOORE ON THE IDEAL (2003) (0)
- The owl of Minerva (2005) (0)
- PHS volume 17 Cover and Front matter (1984) (0)
- Doubts, Reasonable and Otherwise (1993) (0)
- EMPIRICISM AND THE UNSPEAKABLE (2002) (0)
- Book Review:Animal Sacrifices: Religious Perspectives on the Use of Animals in Science Tom Regan (1987) (0)
- Art of psychiatry (2013) (0)
- Man's Responsibility for Nature By John Passmore Duckworth, 1974, x + 213 pp., £5.95 (1975) (0)
- Bioethics and plumbing. (2012) (0)
- The Solitary Self: The natural springs of morality (2010) (0)
- Dover Beach revisited (2006) (0)
- The All-female Number (1979) (0)
- Roger Trigg. The Shaping of Man; Philosophical Aspects of Sociobiology. Pp. 176. (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1982.) £12.50 (hardback);, £5.95 (paperback). (1983) (0)
- Souls, Minds, Bodies and Planets1 (2005) (0)
- The Idea of Salvation Through Science (1992) (0)
- The Problem of Private Validity (1993) (0)
- The Solitary Self: Bibliography (2010) (0)
- Book Review: Science and the Soul (1994) (0)
- What Do We Mean by Security (2007) (0)
- The flawed frontier (2007) (0)
- Preface (2012) (0)
- Up and Down (2021) (0)
- Arts and decoration: From high art to humble memorabilia (1992) (0)
- The Solitary Self: Coming to terms with reason (2010) (0)
- Morality and Harm (1993) (0)
- Nature and Conduct Royal Institute of Philosophy Lectures, Vol. 8, 1973–1974 Edited by R. S. Peters Macmillan, 1975, xv + 312 pp., £10.00 (1976) (0)
- Interior features: From floors to furniture (1992) (0)
- Two become one (2013) (0)
- CREATION AND ORIGINALITY (2003) (0)
- Departmental components of the average hospital: From reception to chapels (1992) (0)
- PARSIMONY, INTEGRITY AND PURITANISM (2013) (0)
- PHS volume 56 Cover and Front matter (2005) (0)
- On Being Animal as well as Rational (2004) (0)
- II—Myths of Intellectual Isolation (1989) (0)
- The mythology of selfishness (2011) (0)
- Notes for Contributors (1993) (0)
- Contract Ethics; Evolutionary Biology and the Natural Sentiments By Kahane Howard Rowman and Littlefield, Lanham, Maryland 1995, pp. xiii+142 (1997) (0)
- Scepticism and Liberty (1993) (0)
- Does Philosophy Get Out of Date (2014) (0)
- Instinct, Nature and Purpose (2021) (0)
- How Large Is a Culture (1993) (0)
- REPLY TO MR PRATT (1980) (0)
- Why We Need a Culture (2021) (0)
- Human Nature, Human Variety, Human Freedom (2000) (0)
- How real are you? (2002) (0)
- MOORE AND THE WITHDRAWAL OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY (2002) (0)
- The human factor (1992) (0)
- The Solitary Self: Darwin's new broom (2010) (0)
- 45. Wickedness: A Philosophical Essay (2016) (0)
- Moving Forward Through the Modern World (1993) (0)
- Embarrassing Relatives: Changing Perceptions of Animals (1987) (0)
- Animals and the Problem of Evil (2021) (0)
- Apes and their place in our world (1999) (0)
- Book Reviews (2002) (0)
- Individualism, Solitude and Privacy (1993) (0)
- Professional appointments: The ‘design team’ (1992) (0)
- UNEXPECTED DIFFICULTIES OF DEICIDE (2013) (0)
- The Origins of Don Giovanni (1999) (0)
- Notes on Contributors (2005) (0)
- FREEDOM AND HEREDITY (2003) (0)
- Investigating Wittgenstein By Merrill Hintikka and Jaakko Hintikka Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1986, xii+248 pp., £27.50 - Nothing is Hidden: Wittgenstein's Criticism of his Early Thought By Norman Malcolm Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1986, xx+326 pp., £22.50 (1987) (0)
- The Public Side of Morality (1993) (0)
- Practical solutions. (1989) (0)
- Facts and Values (2004) (0)
- How Much Have Things Changed (1993) (0)
- Models of Man: Philosophical Thoughts on Social Action . By Martin Hollis. Cambridge University Press, 1977, vii + 195 pp., £7.00, £2.50 paper (1978) (0)
- Principles of interior renovation: The role of the interior designer (1992) (0)
- The Solitary Self: Conclusion: the wider perspective (2010) (0)
- Animal Experimentation (1989) (0)
- Philosophy in Britain Today Edited by S. G. Shanker London: Croom Helm, 1986, 303 pp., £20.00 (1987) (0)
- Royal against the machine (2004) (0)
- Colour and other factors (1992) (0)
- Facing Evil By John Kekes Princeton University Press, 1990, 237 pp., $29.95 (1991) (0)
- Why Must We Not Interfere (1993) (0)
- PHS volume 33 Cover and Front matter (1992) (0)
- The Solitary Self: The self's strange adventures (2010) (0)
- The legacy and appearance of hospital buildings (1992) (0)
- Back to the Main Question (1993) (0)
- THE HUMAN HEART AND OTHER ORGANS (2003) (0)
- Death and the Human Animal (2012) (0)
- Evolution and Practical Thinking (2021) (0)
- Sorting Out the Zeitgeist (2000) (0)
- Review: The Noble Lie by Gary Greenberg (2008) (0)
- Landscape, gardens and the space between the buildings (1992) (0)
- Freud and Human Nature By Ilham Dilman Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1983, 198 pp., £ 15.00 Freud and the Mind By Ilham Dilman Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1984, 194 pp., £ 15.00 (1985) (0)
- The Unity of Life (2004) (0)
- The Solitary Self: The background: egoism from Hobbes to R. D. Laing (2010) (0)
- Evolution as a Religion: Strange Hopes and Fears (1987) (0)
- A Plague on Both Their Houses (2007) (0)
- Learning as a constraint on obligatory responding (1988) (0)
- Speech and Other Excellences (2021) (0)
- Starting from Where We Are (1993) (0)
- Deterrence, Provocation and the Martian Temperament (2020) (0)
- Rethinking sex and the selfish gene: why we do it (2006) (0)
- INSTINCT, NATURE, AND PURPOSE (2004) (0)
- Booknotes (1978) (0)
- On Taking Motives Seriously (2021) (0)
- Can there be a united conservation movement (1985) (0)
- Medicine and moral reasoning: Darwinism and ethics (1994) (0)
- Can We Base Freedom on Ignorance (1993) (0)
- The Solitary Self: Pseudo-Darwinism and social atomism (2010) (0)
- Your Speaking Voice: And how to improve it (1941) (0)
- Ethics- our moral obligation to animals: practical solutions (1989) (0)
- QUESTIONS OF MOTIVATION (2013) (0)
- Skimpole Unmasked (1997) (0)
- The vital reaper (2005) (0)
- Round Table: Science vs Philosophy? (2000) (0)
- The Ethical Primate. Anthony Freeman in discussion with Mary Midgley (1995) (0)
- Directions without a Director (2021) (0)
- Individuals in the Modern Melting-Pot (1993) (0)
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