Science and the Self: Animals, Evolution, and Ethics: Essays in Honour of Mary Midgley (Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy) - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 0367258382 ISBN 13: 9780367258382

Verlag: Routledge, 2019

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The invited essays in this volume offer critical reflections upon Midgley's work and further developments of her ideas, and include topics such as the moral status of animals, the concept of wickedness, science and mythology, the Gaia Hypothesis, her relationship to modern moral philosophy, and her work with Irish Murdoch.

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Ian James Kidd is Assistant Professor at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Nottingham. His work ranges over epistemology, philosophy of medicine, philosophy of religion, and philosophy of science, and includes a number of papers on the authority of science, intellectual virtues, and the nature of a religious life. He was formerly an Addison Wheeler Fellow at the Department of Philosophy at Durham University.

Liz McKinnell is a Teaching Fellow in Philosophy at the University of Durham. She works on areas in applied ethics and political philosophy including environmental ethics, the moral status of animals and intergenerational justice. She has published on moral obligations to the dead, and on connections between environmental ethics and the philosophy of cognition and biology.

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Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0367258382
• ISBN 13: 9780367258382
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 268
• Herausgeber: Kidd Ian James, McKinnell Liz
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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