Books by Mary (Newcastle Upon-Tyne University Midgley

Science can answer any question we choose to put to it, even the most fundamental about ourselves, our behaviour, and our cultures. The author here, puts forth her corrective view that without poetry or literature, or music, or history, or even theology we cannot hope to understand our humanity.

Mary Midgley argues in her powerful new book that far from being the opposite of science, myth is a central part of it. A tour de force of clear thinking on why we are more than the sum of our molecules, The Myths We Live By is essential reading.

Renowned philosopher Mary Midgley explores the remarkable gap that has opened up between our own understanding of our sense of our self and today's scientific orthodoxy that claims the self to be nothing more than an elaborate illusion.

One of the UK's foremost moral philosophers, Mary Midgley recounts her story in this account of friendships and philosophical battles. Charting the highs and lows of philosophy and academia in Britain, it sheds light on Mary's close friends, her moral philosophy and her meetings with major philosophers, including Wittgenstein and Isaiah Berlin.