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	Mary Midgley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Midgley was born in London to Lesley and Canon Tom Scrutton, the chaplain at Kings College, Cambridge.
		Midgley's first book, Beast and Man (published in 1978), was an examination of human nature and a reaction against both the perceived reductionism of sociobiology, and the relativism and behaviorism she saw as prevalent in much of social science.
		Midgley writes that she still believes that these theories "have nothing to do with any reputable theory of evolution" and will not solve the real social and moral problems the world is facing, either through genetic engineering or using machines.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mary_Midgley (1617 words)

	Criticizing Science - God’s Truth or Pious Lies? Science or Religion? AskWhy! Publications. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Mary Midgley wrote sensible books on philosophic topics until she had the same experience as the hacks and clergymen who realized that science was actually revealing truth without any assistance from pundits, prelates or philosophers and so she began to join them in attacking science.
		Midgley thought this was a “startling claim”, doubtless because it was by a philosopher and not by a scientist.
		Midgley claims she, a non-scientist, is trying to put science back in context—to show its borders not as sharp, defended frontiers, but as complex interactions with other ways of thinking.
	www.askwhy.co.uk /truth/460Midgley.html (8121 words)

	Family History Pages: Midgley
		In the 19th century, Midgley was one of the commonest surnames in the village - see the extracts from the census.
		Mary Ann was born at Pool, near Otley, the daughter of John and Anne Wood.
		His bride was Mary Emily Bentley, who came from a family of innkeepers in Holbeck, Leeds, although her paternal grandmother, Eleanor Hartley had been born in East Keswick.
	www.johndarm.clara.net /family_history/midgley.html (1553 words)

	Education \| Mary Midgley: Moral missionary
		By rights, then, Mary Midgley ought to have spent most of her career on the sidelines: instead, she has spent much of her career as one of this country's foremost moral philosophers.
		It was almost inevitable that Midgley would become a philosopher - her father was a pacifist rector who used to give a resounding "no" to any member of the congregation who asked whether everything in the Bible was true - but it initially suited her to keep her counsel on the sidelines.
		Midgley's steps into the middle ground of socio-biology got her noticed by the Americans and she was invited to speak at Cornell University.
	education.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,5289067-108229,00.html (1622 words)

	AskWhy! Midgley on Scientists - God’s Truth or Pious Lies? Science or Religion? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Yet Midgley seems to be getting her two definitions mixed up, because she then says that even though she has used “scientific” to mean that individual social or moral outlooks cannot be considered more or less better in some way, she immediately extends it to mean that science can have no bearing on them.
		Midgley, philosopher or not, is confessing she does not understand science in every word she utters—except when she meanders on to some verdant meadow of blather, when the sense she makes is like muzak in a department store—pleasant but forgettable.
		Midgley says Atkin’s “crude view” is not often defended today, but, if that is true, it is because scientists have had all their courage beaten out of them by attacks from empty philosophers, theologians and clergymen, and corporate bosses.
	www.askwhy.co.uk /truth/540MaryMidgley.html (2836 words)

	Amazon.de: The Myths We Live by: English Books: Mary Midgley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Midgley shows us a way to end the contest of the faculties without giving the victory to one discipline or another and this makes her one of the most important thinker-about-thinking philosophers in the country.
		In Midgley's map of the intellectual landscape there are no priests and the world looks a more interesting place because of it.
		Mary Midgley argues in her powerful new book that far from being the opposite of science, myth is a central part of it.
	www.amazon.de /Myths-We-Live-Mary-Midgley/dp/0415309069 (619 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Myths We Live by: Books: Mary Midgley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Mary Midgley has written an important book that, in true Midgley fashioin, straddles the middle ground between deference to science and its efficacy, and a critical eye of some goings on in the scientific community.
		Midgley (and this reviewer) both have confidence that the mind is caused by the brain and that dualism is not tenable.
		In the tradition of William James, Midgley warns that the world is quite pluralistic in its qualities and we may just need a pluralistic approach to dealing with it.
	www.amazon.ca /Myths-We-Live-Mary-Midgley/dp/0415309069 (1197 words)

	Science & Theology News - Mary Midgley on Science and Poetry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Though Midgley may perhaps seem to be most heavily engaged in a "policing" of scientific rhetoric, the impetus for her concern arises from a deeper well-spring, something which has allowed her to delve deeper into contemporary social issues, ranging from human rights to ecology, with the notion that philosophy serves as a sort of plumbing.
		Midgley takes the time, then, to sift through a frightening world of scientific speculation, though speculation that has direct consequences for those who have deceived themselves into thinking all is fine with modern technological advances.
		It would seem as well that this marriage of Midgley to Gaia is perfectly suited to her quest in finding a broader entrance in the discussions that currently deadlock the dialogues between science and religion.
	www.stnews.org /Books-2127.htm (658 words)

	CHRISTOPHER MIDGLEY
		Mary’s mother had died of 'jaundice' when she was only 8 years old.
		Mary was about eight months pregnant when the couple married at Huttons Ambro Parish Church on the 8th.October 1798.
		Christopher and Mary Midgley had at least nine children: John (born 1798), Elizabeth (born 1800), Thomas (born 1802), Henry (born 1805), Thomas (born 1807), Robert (born 1810), Elizabeth (born 1813), Jonathan (born 1815), and John (born 1818).
	homepage.ntlworld.com /david.midgley/the_family_of_christopher_midgley.htm (323 words)

	Mary Midgley - The Myths We Live By - Reviewed by Sharyn Clough, Oregon State University - Philosophical Reviews - ...
		As a well-respected commentator in the field of science studies, Midgley shows, not surprisingly, a particular interest in how myths affect and are in turn affected by science.
		Even though it is clear that she does not set out to provide the sorts of detailed and carefully-articulated arguments required to âdemolishâ any particular myth, the lack of a sustained and careful focus within and between the chapters of her collection informs my main complaint.
		One of Midgleyâs strengths within science studies is that in her interdisciplinary work she is able to identify and subject to critical analysis the larger patterns that those caught up in the details of a particular scientific study are unable to notice.
	ndpr.nd.edu /review.cfm?id=1384 (1261 words)

	Evolutionblog: Midgley Steps in it Again
		Midgley must surely be aware that no one in the history of the world has ever suggested that natural selection is the sole and exclusive cause of evolution.
		If the name Mary Midgley sounds familiar, it is probably because this is not the first time she has humiliated herself by commenting on matters evolutionary.
		I have been taken aback by the inexplicable hostility of Mary Midgley’s assault.[1] Some colleagues have advised me that such transparent spite is best ignored, but others warn that the venomous tone of her article may conceal the errors in its content.
	evolutionblog.blogspot.com /2005/09/midgley-steps-in-it-again.html (2175 words)

	Gifford Lecture Series - Authors
		Nevertheless, Midgley remains convinced that ‘the religious attitude’ is essential to human thriving, and in her work has repeatedly defended the place of religious belief (rather than particular religious beliefs) against its arrogant critics from the sciences.
		In fact, Midgley’s critique of science should be seen against her own metaphor of the philosopher as plumber: the philosopher, like the plumber, engages in an activity that civilisation depends on, but it is an activity which people only notice and require when certain rather essential workings have gone wrong.
		At her best, Midgley is a ‘science critic’ (using the word ‘critic’ in the way it is used in ‘literary critic’), seeking dialogue with the important activity called science to enable it to do more good and less harm in the modern world.
	www.giffordlectures.org /Author.asp?AuthorID=223 (775 words)

	Kenan Malik's review of 'Science and Poetry' by Mary Midgley
		But, as Mary Midgley points out, however much we learn about our brain, our genes, or our evolutionary history, we will not learn fully what it is to be human.
		Midgley here makes the same mistake as that which she has been so vigorously criticising: she confuses explanatory categories by assuming that the same kinds of explanations are valid for the social and natural worlds.
		Midgley's desire to promote a vision of humans as an integral part of nature leads her, however, to rail against what she calls 'narrow humanism' which sets human beings above the rest of nature.
	www.kenanmalik.com /reviews/midgley_poetry.html (1167 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Archive Search
		Mary Midgley, aged 81, may be the most frightening philosopher in the country: the one before whom it is least pleasant to appear a fool.
		When Midgley got interested in the question in the early 70s, it was unusual enough to get her invited for a year to Cornell University.
		Midgley feels that modern scientists, though they have realised what the urgent problems of the human race are, still talk as if science, or simply increasing knowledge, could solve them.
	www.guardian.co.uk /Archive/Article/0,4273,4116484,00.html (3765 words)

	Mary Midgley's life and philosophical times - TLS Highlights - Times Online (via CobWeb/3.1 planet03.csc.ncsu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Midgley’s judgement on the relationship between her grandfather (the last exhibit in her gallery of extraordinary ancestors and an eminent Lord Justice responsible for important reforms in commercial law) and her father (an Anglican cleric) is penetrating and poignant.
		Midgley moves effortlessly between her life, discussion about philosophical issues, and reflections on the nature of philosophy itself.
		Midgley wrote to distinguished philosophers throughout the country, seeking their support for a campaign to reverse the closure.
	tls.timesonline.co.uk.cob-web.org:8888 /article/0,,25336-2152831,00.html (2116 words)

	3quarksdaily
		Mary Midgley’s emphasis on her early life in The Owl of Minerva is consistent with one of her most fundamental beliefs: that philosophical positions are not arrived at quite as impersonally as many philosophers would like to believe.
		The tendency, particularly marked among some analytical philosophers, to narrow philosophy to a technical exercise, dealing piecemeal with ever smaller issues, and its modelling itself on science and avoiding metaphysics, or even any sense of the wider context of the questions being addressed, is one she has vigorously opposed.
		For Midgley, reason is a tool that should serve reasonableness which itself has more disparate sources and deeper roots than many philosophers acknowledge.
	3quarksdaily.blogs.com /3quarksdaily/2006/04/mary_midgley.html (317 words)

	Mary Midgley Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
		In Animals and Why They Matter, Mary Midgley examines the barriers that our traditions have erected between human beings and animals, and reveals that the too-often ridiculed subject of animal rights is an issue crucially related to such problems within the human community as racism, sexism, and age discrimination.
		Mary Midgley in this book discusses the high spiritual ambitions which tend to gather around the notion of science, and, in particular, some very odd recent expressions of them.
		In her new book, Mary Midgley argues that the unrealistic isolation of mind and body in reductive scientific ideologies still causes painful confusion.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Mary_Midgley (899 words)

	Press column 01 December 1998
		In one sense Midgley’s programme was profoundly opposed to the ambitions of sociobiology.
		Wilson had hoped to reduce all subjects to biology, or at least to rebuild them anew on a biological base: Midgley was hostile both in principle and in practice to the attempt.
		Midgley spent most of the Seventies fending off attacks from philosophers who thought her too scientific and scientists who thought she was making too much of philosophy and no doubt from other people who thought she wrote to well.
	www.darwinwars.com /sample_mary.html (574 words)

	Midgley's of the East Riding of Yorkshire
		He was the son of Richard Midgley, grandson of John Midgley, great-grandson of Richard Midgley of Breary [Breary Hall near Bramhope] and GG grandson of Edward Midgley of Midgley near Halifax.
		Midgley, appointed attorney in the cause, be empowered to effect a compromise if necessary, on Jefferson executing a proper instrument paying his own costs and recognising Beverley freemen’s right of exemption from tolls.
		Midgley born 1871 at Otley, and Frederick, William Midgley born abt.
	members.tripod.com /~midgley/eastyorks.html (3737 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Essential Mary Midgley: Books: Mary Midgley,James Lovelock,David Midgley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Feared and admired in equal measure, Mary Midgley has carefully yet profoundly challenged many of the scientific and moral orthodoxies of the twentieth century.
		Between the passion of Peter Singer and the academic prop-forwardry of Colin McGinn, Mary writes that while she and her sons became vegetarians, her husband, Geoff, remained steadfastly carnivorous, and that she remains of the view that preventing animals suffering is more important than not eating them.
		In amongst the strange people, Mary is an island of compassionate sanity, always calling on her real experience - of babies, boys and animals (which she doesn't think are significantly different) - and finding peculiar the longings of those who imbue experience they haven't had with deep significance.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Essential-Mary-Midgley/dp/0415346428 (827 words)

	Midgley genealogy for West Yorkshire
		In the 1881 census George MIDGLEY, a Joiner, born in Gomersal and his wife Sarah MIDGLEY (WATSON) born Eshem Denison were living at 10 Hodgson Square Bradford with their children Annie 21, Thompson 17, John Birkby 15, Harry 13, James Watson 6, Martha Jane 1.
		Mary Midgley of Oldfield married James Hall, Yeoman of Newsholme near Keighley, (to be proved) daur of Nathan Midgley.
		MARY2 MIDGLEY (NATHAN1) was born 1693 in Keighley?, and died April 14, 1758 in Newsholme.
	members.tripod.com /~midgley/westyorks.html (3633 words)

	Amazon.com: Science and Poetry (Routledge Classics): Books: Mary Midgley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		But for Mary Midgley, science, while undeniably a key element in this quest, can never be the whole story as it cannot truly explain what it means to be human.
		Mary Midgley's book is mainly a critique of the relevance of atomism, that great legacy of the enlightenment that made us individuals and claimed that every aspect of the world could be reduced to collections of minute, interacting but passive particles.
		Midgley believes that different domains require distinct analytical frameworks and that atomism with its need for clearly quantifiable elemental particles is just one approach.
	www.amazon.com /Science-Poetry-Routledge-Classics-Midgley/dp/0415378486 (1888 words)

	Leiter Reports: A Group Blog: Mary Midgley's Oxford (Edmundson)
		There is a striking story from her time at Oxford, where she was an undergraduate between 1938 and 1942, and [for a time] after the war.
		She was part of an extraordinarily talented cohort of students that included Mary Warnock, Iris Murdoch, Philippa Foot and Elizabeth Anscombe, all of whom remained lifelong friends.
		Midgley reflects: “People who go about treading on other people’s toes are peculiarly unaware of what it is like to be trodden on, so that they are naturally much surprised when it happens to themselves”.
	leiterreports.typepad.com /blog/2006/04/mary_midgleys_o.html (607 words)

	KLI Theory Lab - Authors - Mary Midgley
		Midgley, M. Science As Salvation: A Modern Myth and Its Meaning.
		Midgley, M. Evolution as religion: A comparison of prophecies.
		Midgley, M. Evolution As a Religion: Strange Hopes and Stranger Fears.
	www.kli.ac.at /theorylab/AuthPage/M/MidgleyM.html (177 words)

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