Science and the Self (eBook, PDF)

Animals, Evolution, and Ethics: Essays in Honour of Mary Midgley
Redaktion: Kidd, Ian James; McKinnell, Liz

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Produktbeschreibung

Mary Midgley is one of the most important moral philosophers working today. Over the last thirty years, her writings have informed debates concerning animals, the environment and evolutionary theory. The invited essays in this volume offer critical reflections upon Midgley's work and further developments of her ideas, and include topics such as the moral status of animals, the concept of wickedness, science and mythology, the Gaia Hypothesis, Midgley's relationship to modern moral philosophy, and her work with Irish Murdoch, along with the first complete bibliography of Midgley's writings.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. August 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317482932
• Artikelnr.: 43729561

Autorenporträt

Ian James Kidd is Assistant Professor at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Nottingham. His work ranges over epistemology, philosophy of medicine, philosophy of religion, and philosophy of science, and includes a number of papers on the authority of science, intellectual virtues, and the nature of a religious life. He was formerly an Addison Wheeler Fellow at the Department of Philosophy at Durham University. Liz McKinnell is a Teaching Fellow in Philosophy at the University of Durham. She works on areas in applied ethics and political philosophy including environmental ethics, the moral status of animals and intergenerational justice. She has published on moral obligations to the dead, and on connections between environmental ethics and the philosophy of cognition and biology. .

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Jane Goodall Introduction Ian James Kidd and Liz McKinnell
Part I: Animals and Environments 1. Animals, Attitudes, and Moral Theories
David E. Cooper 2. Animals, Real and Virtual Stephen R.L. Clark 3. The
Mixed Community Gregory McElwain 4. How Pigs Talk: The Need for 'Earthy
Realism' Françoise Wemelsfelder Part II: Human Nature 5. Beast and Man - 35
Years On Raymond Tallis 6. Is There Such a Thing as Consensus Morality?
Mary Warnock Part III: Minds, Human and Animal 7. Extended Minds and the
Nature of Seeing Rupert Sheldrake 8. Naturalism, Science, and the
Philosophy of Mind Jane Heal 9. Minding Animals Ian Ground Part IV: Science
and Evolution 10. Doing Science an Injustice: Midgley on Scientism Ian
James Kidd 11. Genes and Geniality: Dawkins, Midgley, and The Selfish Gene
Andrew Brown 12. Was Plato a Gorilla? Mary Midgley's Search for a
Metaphysics of Evolution Simon Conway Morris Part V: Women and the World
13. On Being a 'Full-time Feminist': Midgley and Feminist Philosophy Liz
McKinnell 14. 'Slipping out over the Wall': Midgley, Anscombe, Foot, and
Murdoch Benjamin Lipscomb 15. Afterword Mary Midgley