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Mary Midgley says that branches of knowledge are like maps – each answers a different set of questions so they can’t necessarily all be ‘reduced’ to physics.
Mary Beatrice Midgley (née Scrutton; 13 September 1919 – 10 October 2018) was a British philosopher. A senior lecturer in philosophy at Newcastle University , she was known for her work on science, ethics and animal rights .
Oct 23, 2018 · She compared philosophy to drawing maps or chasing rabbits (as opposed to digging for golden nuggets of scientific truth). It was a way of standing back and looking at life as a whole. She called philosophy a practical art, one which brings together parts of our lives that, on the face of it, do not quite cohere.
www.pdcnet.org. Pluralism: The Many Maps Model. Mary Midgley
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Aug 1, 2021 · Alister McGrath explains the British philosopher Mary Midgley’s influential account of “maps of reality”, and shows how this can be used to help understand the relation of science and religion as different fields of knowledge with the potential to enrich and expand each other.
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Mary Midgley (1919-2018) Nat Dyer looks at the humanity of a philosopher who tried to make philosophy more human. Virtually all the famous philosophers in Western history were lifelong bachelors, pointed out Mary Midgley.
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Mapping the Quartet traces the legacy of four distinguished philosophers G.E.M. Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Iris Murdoch, and Mary Midgley.
