The myths we live by

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主要作者: Midgley, Mary, 1919-
企业作者: ProQuest (Firm)
格式: 电子 电子书
语言:英语
出版: London ; New York : Routledge, 2003.
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书本目录:
  • 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