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Mary Midgley

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Midgley uses ethological studies of animal behavior to develop principles for morality that explicitly extend its concerns to include the welfare of non-human species.

Reading

Beast and Man: The Roots of the Human Nature. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1978. Hassocks, UK; St. Lucia, Q.: Harvester; University of Queensland Press, 1979. London; New York: Methuen; New American Library, 1980. London/New York: Routledge, 1995.

Wickedness: A Philosophical Essay (1984) 

Can't We Make Moral Judgements? (St. Martin's, 1993)

The Ethical Primate: Humans, Freedom, and Morality (1994)

Also see, and noesis.

Quotations

Other Publications

• Heart & Mind: The Varieties of Moral Experience. and John F. A. Sawyer, eds. Brighton; New York; London: Harvester Press; St. Martin's Press; Methuen, 1981.
  
  
• Perspectives on Suffering. 8 cassettes. Newcastle upon Tyne: Produced by the Dept. of Religious Studies and the Audio Visual Centre, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 1981.
  
  
• Women's Choices: Philosophical Problems Facing Feminism.  and Judith Hughes. New York; London: St. Martin's Press; Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1983.
  

  
  

• Animals and Why They Matter.
  Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1983. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1984.
  

  
  

• Biological and Cultural Evolution.
  Series: ICR Monograph Series; 20. Tunbridge Wells: Institute for Cultural Research, 1984.
  

  
  

• Wickedness: A Philosophical Essay.
  London/Boston: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1984, 1985, 1992. London: Ark Paperbacks, 1986.
  

  
  

• Evolution as Religion: Strange Hopes and Strange Fears.
  London/New York: Methuen, 1985.
  

  
  

• Wisdom, Information and Wonder: What is Knowledge For?
  London/New York: Routledge, 1989, 1991.
  

• Josei no Sentaku: Feminizumu o Kangaeru.
  Women's Choices: Philosophical Problems Facing Feminism in Japanese. Shiori Gojo and Yuko Nakamura, tr. Tokyo: Keisoshobo, 1990.
  

  
  

• Can't We Make Moral Judgements?
  Series: Mind Matters. Bristol: Bristol Press, 1991. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991, 1993.
  

• Science as Salvation: A Modern Myth and Its Meaning.
  Series: Gifford Lectures; 1990. London/New York: Routledge, 1992, 1994.
  

  
  

• The Ethical Primate: Humans, Freedom, and Morality.
  New York: Routledge, 1994, 1995, 1996.
  

  
  

• Utopias, Dolphins, and Computers: Problems in Philosophical Plumbing.
  London/New York: Routledge, 1996.
  

  
  

• "Conclusion." Perspectives on Suffering. Mary Midgley and John F. A. Sawyer, eds. 8 cassettes. Newcastle upon Tyne: Produced by the Dept. of Religious Studies and the Audio Visual Centre, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 1981.
  

  
  

• "Introduction." Perspectives on Suffering. Mary Midgley and John F. A. Sawyer, eds. 8 cassettes. Newcastle upon Tyne: Produced by the Dept. of Religious Studies and the Audio Visual Centre, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 1981.
  

  
  

• "Is It All a Mistake?" Perspectives on Suffering. Mary Midgley and John F. A. Sawyer, eds. 8 cassettes. Newcastle upon Tyne: Produced by the Dept. of Religious Studies and the Audio Visual Centre, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 1981.
  

  
  

• "Duties Concerning Islands." Environmental Ethics: A Collection of Readings. Robert Elliot, ed. St. Lucia, Queensland/New York: University of Queensland Press, 1983.
  

  
  

• "Philosophical Plumbing." The Impulse to Philosophise. Series: Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement; 33. A. Phillips Griffiths, ed. Cambridge/New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
  

  
  

• "The Mixed Community." The Animal Rights, Environmental Ethics Debate: The Environmental Perspective. Series: Philosophy and Biology. Eugene C. Hargrove, ed. Albany: SUNY Press, 1992.
  

  
  

• "The Significance of Species." The Animal Rights, Environmental Ethics Debate: The Environmental Perspective. Series: Philosophy and Biology. Eugene C. Hargrove, ed. Albany: SUNY Press, 1992.
  

  
  

• "Towards a More Humane View of the Beasts?" The Environment in Question: Ethics and Global Issues. David Edward Cooper and Joy Palmer, eds. London/New York: Routledge, 1992.
  

  
  

• "The Origin of Ethics." A Companion to Ethics. Peter Singer, ed. Series: Blackwell Companions to Philosophy. Oxford/Cambridge, MA: Blackwell Reference, 1993.
  

  
  

• "The End of Anthropocentrism." Philosophy and the Natural Environment. Robin Attfield and Andrew Belsey, eds. Series: Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement; 36. Cambridge, UK/New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
  

• Wisdom, Information and Wonder: What is Knowledge For? (Routledge, 1991) 

   

• "Duties Concerning Islands." Environmental Ethics. Robert Elliot, ed. Series: Oxford Readings in Philosophy. Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
  

• "Trouble with Families?" Introducing Applied Ethics. Brenda Almond, ed. Oxford/Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1995.
  

• "Visions, Secular and Sacred." The Hastings Center Report 25, 5 (Sept-Oct 95): 20-28.
  
  
  
• Science and Poetry (Routledge, 2001)

Commentaries

 John Black, Review of Mary Midgley's Beast and Man: the Roots of Human Nature, Revised Edition.