The myths we live by. (2005)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Mary Midgley.
• Other Names: Midgley, Mary
• Contents: How 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.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2005
• Extent: 1 online resource (208 pages)
• Subjects: 191; Science -- Philosophy; Myth; Symbolism; Knowledge, Theory of; Knowledge, Theory of; Myth; Science -- Philosophy; Symbolism; Filosofia moderna -- Estados unidos; Simbolismo; Mitologia
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781134392520; 1134392524
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.