Midgley, Mary,  1919-2018. <br/><br/>
The myths we live by / 
Mary Midgley. 
 - 1st ed. 
 - x, 192 p. ; 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 176-184) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0415340772 (pbk) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2020690817 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>BA341900 GBA3-Z4619 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Myth--Social aspects--History.<br/>Civilization, Modern--Philosophy.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>201.3  / MID