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Main Author: Midgley, Mary (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London Routledge 2001
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Item Description: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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (x, 230 pages)
ISBN:0203187946
0203244389
0415237327
9780203187944
9780203244388

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