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Wickedness by Mary Midgley
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.99To look into the darkness of the human soul is a frightening venture. Here Mary Midgley does so, with her customary brilliance and clarity. Midgley's analysis proves that the capacity for real... -
Mary Midgley by Gregory McElwain
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £24.67For over 40 years, Mary Midgley made a forceful case for the relevance and importance of philosophy. With characteristic wit and wisdom, she drew special attention to the ways in which our thought... -
Wickedness by Mary Midgley 9781138127012
RRP: £105.00Booksplease Price: £91.55To look into the darkness of the human soul is a frightening venture. Here Mary Midgley does so, with her customary brilliance and clarity. Midgley's analysis proves that the capacity for real... -
What Is Philosophy for? by Mary Midgley
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.01Why should anybody take an interest in philosophy? Is it just another detailed study like metallurgy? Or is it similar to history, literature and even religion: a study meant to do some personal good... -
Science and Poetry by Mary Midgley 9780415378482
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £22.95Science, according to the received wisdom of the day, can answer any question we choose to put to it - even the most fundamental about ourselves, our behaviour and our cultures. But for Mary Midgley... -
What Is Philosophy for? by Mary Midgley 9781350051089
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £69.89Why should anybody take an interest in philosophy? Is it just another detailed study like metallurgy? Or is it similar to history, literature and even religion: a study meant to do some personal good... -
Are You an Illusion? Mary Midgley 9781032533681
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.74In an impassioned defence of the importance of our own thoughts, feelings and experiences, the renowned philosopher Mary Midgley shows that there's much more to our selves than a jumble of brain... -
Mary Midgley by Gregory McElwain 9781350047570
Booksplease Price: £86.43Mary Midgley is one of the most influential moral philosophers of the twentieth century. Over the last 40 years, Midgley's writings on such central yet controversial topics as human nature, morality,... -
Owl of Minerva: A Memoir by Mary Midgley
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £47.80One of the UK's foremost moral philosophers, Mary Midgley recounts her remarkable story in this elegiac and moving account of friendships found and lost, bitter philosophical battles and of a... -
The Myths We Live By by Mary Midgley 9781138834798
RRP: £105.00Booksplease Price: £91.55With a new Introduction by the author'An elegant and sane little book. - The New StatesmanMyths, as Mary Midgley argues in this powerful book, are everywhere. In political thought they sit at the... -
The Essential Mary Midgley by David Midgley 9780415346429
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £24.54Feared and admired in equal measure, Mary Midgley has carefully yet profoundly challenged many of the scientific and moral orthodoxies of the twentieth century. The Essential Mary Midgley collects... -
The Essential Mary Midgley David Midgley 9780415346412
RRP: £125.00Booksplease Price: £111.65Feared and admired in equal measure, Mary Midgley has carefully yet profoundly challenged many of the scientific and moral orthodoxies of the twentieth century. The Essential Mary Midgley collects... -
The Myths We Live By by Mary Midgley 9780415610247
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.55With a new Introduction by the author'An elegant and sane little book. - The New StatesmanMyths, as Mary Midgley argues in this powerful book, are everywhere. In political thought they sit at the... -
Animals and Why They Matter by Mary Midgley 9780820320410
RRP: £25.95Booksplease Price: £24.49Animals and Why They Matter examines the barriers that our philosophical traditions have erected between human beings and animals and reveals that the too-often ridiculed subject of animal rights is... -
Owl of Minerva: A Memoir by Mary Midgley 9780415371391
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £23.81One of the UK's foremost living moral philosophers, Mary Midgley recounts her remarkable story in this elegiac and moving account of friendships found and lost, bitter philosophical battles and of a... -
Can't We Make Moral Judgements? by Mary Midgley
Booksplease Price: £20.70How many times do we hear the statement 'It's not for me to judge'? It conveys one of the most popular ideas of our time: that to make judgements of others is essentially wrong. In this classic text,... -
Heart and Mind: The Varieties of Moral Experience by Mary Midgley
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.87With a new introduction by the author. It is a book of superb spirit and style, more entertaining than a work of philosophy has any right to be.' - Times Literary Supplement. Throughout our lives we... -
Earthy Realism: The Meaning of Gaia Mary Midgley 9781845400804
Booksplease Price: £9.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845400804Author Mary MidgleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Imprint AcademicPublisher... -
Science as Salvation: A Modern Myth and its Meaning by Mary Midgley
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £29.81What is the role of scientists in society? What should we think when they talk about more than just science? Mary Midgley discusses the high spiritual ambitions which tend to gather around the notion... -
Utopias, Dolphins and Computers: Problems in Philosophical Plumbing by Mary Midgley
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37Why do the big philosophical questions so often strike us as far-fetched and little to with everyday life? Mary Midgley shows that it need not be that way; she shows that there is a need for... -
Evolution as a Religion: Strange Hopes and Stranger Fears by Mary Midgley
RRP: £99.99Booksplease Price: £88.07According to a profile in The Guardian, Mary Midgley is 'the foremost scourge of scientific pretensions in this country; someone whose wit is admired even by those who feel she sometimes oversteps... -
Beast and Man: The Roots of Human Nature by Mary Midgley 9780415289870
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £18.12Philosophers have traditionally concentrated on the qualities that make human beings different from other species. In Beast and Man Mary Midgley, one of our foremost intellectuals, stresses... -
The Solitary Self: Darwin and the Selfish Gene Mary Midgley 9781844652532
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £37.99Renowned philosopher Mary Midgley explores the nature of our moral constitution to challenge the view that reduces human motivation to self-interest. Midgley argues cogently and convincingly that... -
Heart and Mind: The Varieties of Moral Experience by Mary Midgley 9781138141728
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £100.05With a new introduction by the author. It is a book of superb spirit and style, more entertaining than a work of philosophy has any right to be.' - Times Literary Supplement. Throughout our lives we... -
The Ethical Primate: Humans, Freedom and Morality by Mary Midgley 9780415132244
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £37.52In The Ethical Primate, Mary Midgley, 'one of the sharpest critical pens in the West' according to the Times Literary Supplement, addresses the fundamental question of human freedom. Scientists and... -
Beast and Man: The Roots of Human Nature Mary Midgley 9780415289863
RRP: £99.99Booksplease Price: £88.07Philosophers have traditionally concentrated on the qualities that make human beings different from other species. In Beast and Man Mary Midgley, one of our foremost intellectuals, stresses... -
Evolution as a Religion: Strange Hopes and Stranger Fears by Mary Midgley 9780415278331
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.55According to The Guardian, Midgley is 'the foremost scourge of scientific pretentions in this country; someone whose wit is admired even by those who fee she sometimes oversteps the mark'. This book... -
The Sea, The Sea & A Severed Head by Iris Murdoch
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.04First published in 1961, The Severed Head is regarded is one of Iris Murdoch's most entertaining works. A dark and ferocious comic masterpiece, the novel traces the turbulent emotional journey of... -
Science and the Self: Animals, Evolution, and Ethics: Essays in Honour of Mary Midgley by Ian James Kidd
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £43.51Mary 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 Earth Is Our Home: Mary Midgley's critique and reconstruction of evolution and its meanings by Nelson Rivera 9781845402129
Booksplease Price: £26.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845402129Author Nelson RiveraFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Imprint AcademicPublisher... -
The Women Are Up to Something: How Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch Revolutionized Ethics by Benjamin J.B. Lipscomb
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £23.38The story of four remarkable women who shaped the intellectual history of the 20th century: Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch. On the cusp of the Second World War,... -
Death And Anti-Death, Volume 17: One Year After Mary Midgley, Twenty Years After Iris Murdoch by Charles Tandy 9781934297315
RRP: £59.95Booksplease Price: £42.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934297315Author Charles TandyFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Ria University PressPublisher... -
Death And Anti-Death, Volume 17: One Year After Mary Midgley, Twenty Years After Iris Murdoch by Charles Tandy 9781934297322
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £33.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934297322Author Charles TandyFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Ria University PressPublisher... -
The Women Are Up to Something: How Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch Revolutionized Ethics by Benjamin J. Bruxvoort Lipscomb 9780197689967
RRP: £15.49Booksplease Price: £14.25The story of four remarkable women who shaped the intellectual history of the 20th century: Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch. On the cusp of the Second World War,... -
The Sandcastle by Iris Murdoch
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15The quiet life of schoolmaster Bill Mor and his wife Nan is disturbed when a young woman, Rain Carter, arrives at the school to paint the portrait of the headmaster. Mor, hoping to enter politics,... -
An Accidental Man by Iris Murdoch
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15This is the story of the comic, relentless struggle for survival of Austin Gibson Grey, the accidental man. Austin is one of those people who thrives through the destruction of others. The others, in... -
The Feynman Challenge: Poems on Science by James Kevin Thornton 9781909954892
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £8.23Poems about the universe: from the sub-atomic level to the cosmic, from bacteria to complex life and exoplanets.The physicist Richard Feynman challenged poets to step aside from metaphor and capture... -
A Fairly Honourable Defeat by Iris Murdoch
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15In this dark comedy of errors, Iris Murdoch portrays the mischief wrought by Julius, a cynical intellectual who decides to demonstrate through a Machiavellian experiment how easily loving couples,... -
An Unofficial Rose by Iris Murdoch
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15After his wife's death, Hugh contemplates returning to his former mistress. His son, Randall, longs to abandon his shapeless marriage for a perfect partner. Randall's young daughter, Miranda, is... -
The Red and the Green by Iris Murdoch
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15As the Easter Rebellion looms, tension mounts in the rain-soaked streets of Dublin. Tension is also ratcheting up at home. Pat Dumay is a Catholic and an Irish patriot. His relentlessly pious mother...