Are You an Illusion?

ISBN-13: 9781032533681 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 200 str.

Mary Midgley

Opis

A salutary analysis of science’s claim to have done away with the self and a characteristic injection of common sense from one of our most respected philosophers into a debate increasingly in need of it. This Routledge Classics edition includes a new Foreword by Stephen Cave.

Recenzje

'Midgley manages in just 150 pages to say more than most scholars manage in a lifetime.' – Financial Times

'A fiercely combative philosopher… our foremost scourge of scientific pretension.' – The Guardian

'She has, perhaps, the sharpest perception of any living thinker of the dangerous extremism that lurks behind so much contemporary scientistic discourse... Merely as anthologies of contemporary folly, Midgley's books are essential reading.' – The Sunday Times

Spis treści

Foreword to the Routledge Classics Edition Stephen Cave  Preface  Introduction: Are We Losing Ourselves?  1. Changing Relations to the Cosmos  2. Sciencephobia and its Sources  3. Transcendent Numbers: Pythagoras and Plato  4. What Explanation Is  5. Why the Idea of Purpose Won't Go Away  6. Is Sexual Selection Natural?  7. The Search for Senselessness  8. The Beasts That Perish  9. Free Will, Not Just Free Won't  10. How Divided Selves Live  11. Hemispheres and Holism  12. The Supernatural Aspects of Physics  Conclusion: On Being Still Here.  Index

O autorze

Mary Midgley (1919–2018) was one of the leading moral philosophers of her generation and has been described by The Guardian as 'the foremost scourge of scientific pretension in this country'. Many of her books are available in Routledge Classics, including Beast and Man, Wickedness and The Myths We Live By.