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Vor einem Tag · Both look at how Philippa Foot, alongside Elizabeth Anscombe, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch, shaped the intellectual history of the 20th century. According to Brown, Foot would not have much liked being thought of as being part of a shared project like this – although the four women were friends, there is an immense diversity to their work and views. In large part, what connected them was ...
Vor 3 Tagen · Diese 20 Philosophinnen muss man kennen – Rebecca Buxton und Lisa Whiting haben Porträts der wichtigsten Denkerinnen aus allen Epochen und Erdteilen zusammengestellt. Ein Einsteigerbuch für Feministinnen und alle, die es werden wollen. Mit Texten über: Hypatia, Diotima, Ban Zhao, Mary Wollstonecraft, Lalla, Mary Astell, Harriet ...
Vor einem Tag · He instead provides a more reliable account of the myriad functions of doctrine, utilising Mary Midgley’s concept of ‘mapping’ as a means of coordinating the multiple aspects of complex phenomena. McGrath’s approach also employs Karl Popper’s ‘Three Worlds’, allowing the theoretical, objective, and subjective aspects of doctrine to be seen as essential and interconnected.
Vor 3 Tagen · Two of the most influential thinkers of our time, Peter Singer, Australian philosopher, Princeton professor and author of Animal Liberation, and the late Mary Midgley, described by the Guardian as "UK's foremost scourge of scientific pretention" go head to head on the future of bio-ethics. Roger Bolton hosts.
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Vor 5 Tagen · To the question of knowing whether it is better to have intelligence or a good character, we reply: a good character. Why? Because, when this question is asked, one is never thinking of integral intelligence, which essentially implies self-knowledge; conversely, a good character always implies an element of intelligence, obviously on condition that the virtue be real and not compromised by an ...
Vor 5 Tagen · I’ve read another book on Elizabeth Anscombe, Iris Murdoch, Philippa Foot and Mary Midgley – Benjamin J. B. Lipscomb’s The Women are Up to Something, published a year earlier than Metaphysical Animals. I found it a much easier read overall, and it had more thematic and structural coherence.
Vor 2 Tagen · So, building a hugely complex computer can only ever make a metaphorical brain. Or as Mary Midgley argues in Science as Salvation, the problem isn’t that we are operating with myths, the problem is that we have recategorised myth as fact, and therefore inevitable.
