# Mary Midgley

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Literary Festival 2014: Understanding the Self

Contributor(s): Mary Midgley, Jonathan Rée, Professor Raymond Tallis

Mary Midgley: An Introduction

In this episode we explore the thought of ethicist and philosopher Mary Midgley. Midgley was a key scholar of common-sense morality, and the most important ethicist of animals in the last century. Her ideas have enduring significance for people, animals and nature today. GUEST and Host Greg McElw…

Season 7: "Book Lunch" Metaphysical Animals

#poetry #philosophy #booklunch #MetaphysicalAnimals,This "Book Lunch" is a deep dive into the world of British philosophy of much of the twentieth century teeth century with a focus on 4 female philosophers who were giants in the arts as well as philosophy: Mary Midgley, Philippa Foot, Iris Murdoch…

The River and the Two Dams. Introducing the Participatory Cosmos.

The first episode of the Neidan Podcast and the load-bearing wall of every episode that follows. Co-hosted by Auge Eidos and Zhiyuan. The episode introduces the show and the controlling image of the forthcoming book The Participatory Cosmos: Daoist and Hermetic Witness Against the Dominion Frame. S…

Is philosophy becoming irrelevant? | Mary Midgley

Does philosophy still matter in today's world? If so, why are students less and less interested in studying in it? In a special episode from the IAI archives, Mary Midgley addresses the declining interest in philosophy among young people. Instead of an outdated discipline for old people with too mu…

Professor David Nutt and Philippa Perry

Professor David Nutt and psychotherapist Philippa Perry join Harriett Gilbert to discuss their favourite books by Aldous Huxley, Bernardine Evaristo and Mary Midgley. Island by Aldous Huxley Publisher: Vintage Mr Loverman by Bernardine Evaristo Publisher: Hamish Hamilton Animals and Why They Matt…

How Do Humans Fit into the Story of Life? ~ Jonathan Loh

“What a chimera then is man! What a novelty! What a monster, what a chaos, what a contradiction!” — Blaise Pascal. No moment in my teaching career has left a deeper impression on me than a biology class I gave in 2018. The topic was evolution and the tree of life. The pupils were ten-year-olds. “S…