Are you an illusion? /
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Author / Creator: | Midgley, Mary, 1919-2018 author. |
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Imprint: | Durham : Acumen, 2014. |
Description: | viii, 167 pages ; 20 cm. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Heretics Heretics (Durham, England) |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9981724 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction : are we losing ourselves?
- Changing relations to the cosmos
- Sciencephobia and its sources
- Transcendent numbers : Pythagoras and Plato
- What explanation is
- Why the idea of purpose won't go away
- Is sexual selection natural?
- The search for senselessness
- The beasts that perish
- Free will, not just free won't
- How divided selves live
- Hemispheres and holism
- The supernatural aspects of physics
- Conclusion : on being still here.