Mary Midgley bibliography

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Mary Midgley has kindly provided a list of some recent articles, which will serve as a "starter" for this page. Midgley scholars and fans, please additional material as you come across it. See help if you are new to Wikis.

Ideally all citations will follow the standard format given for Beast and Man, below, with links to journal/database/amazon pages if available. It would also be nice to have each section organized chronologically. Really nice would be brief summaries.

Books

Midgley, Mary (1978). Beast and Man: The Roots of Human Nature. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, pp. 1-377. Amazon

Journals

Biotechnology and Monstrosity; Why We Should Pay Attention to the `Yuk Factor'. Hastings Center Report, vol. 30, no.5, September-October 2000

Alchemy Revived (Review of books on Genetic Engineering). Hastings Center Report', Vol. 30 no.2, March-April 2000

Sustainability and Moral Pluralism. Ethics And The Environment, Vol 1, No. 1, Spring 1996

`The Four-Leggeds, The Two-Leggeds and the Wingeds'. 'Society and Animals', Vol.1, No.1, 1993

Duties Concerning Islands. Encounter LX (Feb. 1983). Reprinted in People, Penguins and Plastic Trees, ed. Donald Vandeveer and Christine Pierce, Wadsworth, California, 1986. Also in Environmental Ethics', ed. Robert Elliot, Oxford U.P 1995, in Ethics, ed.. Peter Singer, Oxford U.P. 1994, and elsewhere.

Being Scientific About Our Selves Journal of Consciousness Studies, Vol. 6, April 1999. Reprinted in Models of the Self, ed. Shaun Gallagher and Jonathan Shear, Imprint Academic 1999

One World - But A Big One. Journal of Consciousness Studies, Vol. 3, no. 5/6, 1996

Can Education Be Moral? Res Publica. Vol. II, no.1, 1996. Reprinted in Teaching Right and Writing, Moral Education In The Balance, ed. Richard Smith and Paul Standish, Trentham Books 1997

Can Specialization Damage Your Health? International Journal of Moral and Social Studies, Vol.2, No.1, Spring 1987

Individualism and the Concept of Gaia. Review of International Studies, (2000) 26, 29-44.

Being Objective. Nature, Vol. 410,12 April 2001, p. 753

Heaven And Earth, An Awkward History. Philosophy Now, Issue 34, Dec. 2001-Jan.2002, p. 18

Pluralism; The Many-Maps Model. Philosophy Now, Issue 35, Feb-March 2002 (forthcoming)

Choosing the Selectors. Proceedings of the British Academy, 112, 00-00 (forthcoming), 2002

Does the Earth Concern Us? Gaia Circular, Winter 2001-Spring 2002, p.4

Zombies and the Turing Test. Journal of Consciousness Studies, Vol.2, No.4,1995, pp. 351-2

The Origins of Don Giovanni. Philosophy Now, Winter 1999-2000, p.32

Gene-Juggling. Philosophy, Vol.54, No 210 (Oct. 1979) pp.108-134

Is the Biosphere a Luxury? Hastings Center Report, May-June 1992

Science In The World. Science Studies, Vol.9, no.2, 1996

Beasts Versus the Biosphere. Environmental Values, 1.1, 1992, p.113-121

De-Dramatizing Darwinism. The Monist, April 1984, Vol.67, No.2

Wickedness. The Philosophers' Magazine, Spring 2001 (pp.23-5) and Autumn 2001 (pp.23-5)

Book chapters

On Trying Out One's New Sword on a Chance Wayfarer. In Heart and Mind (by MM, Methuen 1981). Reprinted in Ethics, Theory and Contemporary Issues, Third edition, ed. Barbara MacKinnon, Univ. of San Francisco, 2001

Towards a More Humane View of the Beasts? In The Environment in Question, ed. David E. Cooper and Joy A. Palmer, Routledge, London, 1992

The Myths We Live By. In The Values of Science, Oxford Amnesty Lectures 1997. Ed. Wes Williams, Westview Press 1999

Beasts, Brutes and Monsters. In What Is An Animal?, ed. Tim Ingold, London, Unwin Hyman 1988

The End of Anthropocentrism? In Philosophy and the Natural Environment, ed. Robin Attfield and Andrew Belsey, Cambridge U.P. 1994

Consciousness, Fatalism and Science. In The Human Person in Science and Theology, ed. Niels Hendrik Gregerson, Willem B.Drees and Ulf Gorman, Edinburgh, T&T Clark, 2000

Towards an Ethic of Global Responsiblity. In Human Rights in Global Politics, ed. Tim Dunne and Nicholas J. Wheeler, Cambridge U.P, 1999

Visions of Embattled Science. In Science Today, Problem or Crisis? Ed. Ralph Levinson and Jeff Thomas. London, Routledge 1997.

Human Nature, Human Variety, Human Freedom. In Being Humans; Anthropological Universality and Particularity. Ed. Neil Roughley. Berlin and New York, Walter de Gruyter, 2000

Earth Matters; Thinking About The Environment, In The Age of Anxiety, ed. Sarah Dunant and Roy Porter. London, Virago 1996.

The Soul's Successors; Philosophy and `the Body'. In Religion And The Body, ed. Sarah Coakley, Cambridge U.P 1997

Keeping Species on Ice. In Beyond the Bars, The Zoo Dilemma. Ed. Virginia MacKenna, Will Travers, Jonathan Wray. Thorsons 1987

Putting Ourselves Together Again. In Consciousness And Human Identity, ed. John Cornwell, Oxford U.P. 1998

Reductive Megalomania. In Nature's Imagination; The Frontiers of Scientific Vision, ed. John Cornwell, Oxford u.p. 1995

Teleological Theories of Morality. Article in An Encyclopaedia Of Philosophy, ed. G.H.R.Parkinson, London, Routledge 1988

The Significance of Species. In The Moral Life, ed. Stephen Luper-Foy and Curtis Brown, Harcourt Brace Jovanovitch 1992. Also in The Animal Rights/Environmental Ethics Debate, The Environmental Perspective. Ed. Eugene C. Hargrove, State University of New York Press, 1992

The Origin of Ethics. In A Companion To Ethics, ed. Peter Singer, Oxford, Blackwell, 1991.

Why Memes? In Alas, Poor Darwin, ed. Hilary and Steven Rose, London, Jonathan Cape 2000.

Strange Contest, Science versus Religion. In The Gospel and Contemporary Culture, ed. Hugh Montefiore, London, Mowbray 1992

Philosophical Plumbing. In The Impulse to Philosophise, ed. A Phillips Griffiths, Cambridge U.P. ,1992

The Need for Wonder. In God For The 21st Century, ed. Russell Stannard, Templeton Foundation Press 2000

Darwinism and Ethics. In Medicine And Moral Reasoning, ed. K.W.M.Fulford, Grant Gillett and Janet Martin Soskice. Cambridge U.P. 1994

Why Knowledge Matters. In Animals In Research, New Perspectives in Animal Experimentation, ed. David Sperlinger, John Wiley and Sons, 1981

The Problem of Humbug. In Media Ethics, ed. Matthew Kieran., London, Routledge 1998.

Why Smartness Is Not Enough. In Rethinking the Curriculum; Towards an Integrated, Interdisciplinary College Education, ed. Mary E.Clark and Sandra A.Wawritko. New York, Greenwood Press 1990.

Trouble with Families? (M.Midgley and Judith Hughes) In Introducing Applied Ethics, ed. Brenda Almond, Oxford, Blackwell 1995

The View from Britain; What Is Dissolving Families? M.Midgley and Judith Hughes. American Philosophical Association, Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy. Issue no. 96.1, Fall 1996

The Problem of Living With Wildness. In Wolves and Human Communities, Biology, Politics and Ethics, ed. Virginia A.Sharpe, Bryan Norton and Strachan Donelley, Washington, Island Press 2001

On Not Being Afraid Of Natural Sex Differences. In Feminist Perspectives in Philosophy, ed. Morwenna Griffiths and Margaret Whitford, London, MacMillan 1988

Bridge-Building At Last. In Animals And Human Society, ed. Aubrey Manning and James Serpell,, London, Routledge 1994

The Challenge of Science, Limited Knowledge Or A New High Priesthood? In True To This Earth, ed. Alan Race and Roger Williamson, Oneworld Publications, 1995

The Mixed Community. In Earth Ethics, Environmental Ethics, Animal Rights and Practical Applications. Ed. James P.Sterba. New Jersey, Prentice Hall 1995

Are You An Animal? In Animal Experimentation; The Consensus Changes. Ed. Gill Langley, Macmillan, 1989