Mary Midgley, née Scrutton, (b. 13 September 1919) is a British moral philosopher. She was a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, and is best known for her popular works on religion, science and ethics. She strongly opposes reductionist and scientistic philosophies and is especially concerned with attempts, as she sees it, to make science function as a substitute for the humanities, a role for which she claims it is wholly inadequate. Wikipedia
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But, as Mary Midgley points out, however much we learn about our brain, our genes, or our evolutionary history, we will not learn fully what it is to be human. www.kenanmalik.com/reviews/midgley_poetry.html
