The myths we live by [electronic resource] / Mary Midgley.

How myths work
Our place in the world
Progress, science and modernity
Thought has many forms
The aims of reduction
Dualistic dilemmas
Motives, materialism and megalomania
What is action
Tidying the inner scene : why memes?
The sleep of reason produces monsters
Getting rid of the ego
Cultural evolution?
Selecting the selectors
Is reason sex-linked?
The journey from freedom to desolation
Biotechnology and the yuk factor
The new alchemy
The supernatural engineer
Heaven and earth, an awkward history
Science looks both ways
Are you an animal?
Problems about parsimony
Denying animal consciousness
Beasts versus the biosphere?
Some practical dilemmas
Problems of living with otherness
Changing ideas of wildness