Science and poetry - Midgley, Mary (Routledge, 2001)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 208-215) and index
Visions of rationality -- - The sources of thought -- - Knowledge considered as weed-killer -- - Rationality and rainbows -- - The shape of disillusion -- - Atomistic visions: the quest for permanence -- - Memes and other unusual life-forms -- - Mind and body: the end of apartheid -- - Putting our selves together again -- - Living in the world -- - The strange persistence of fatalism -- - Chessboards and presidents of the immortals -- - Doing science on purpose -- - One world, but a big one -- - A plague on both their houses -- - Being scientific about our selves -- - In what kind of world? -- - Widening responsibilities -- - The problem of humbug -- - Individualism and the concept of Gaia -- - Gods and goddesses: the role of wonder -- - Why there is such a thing as society -- - Paradoxes of sociobiology and social Darwinism -- - Mythology, rhetoric and religion