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610Midgley at the intersection of animal and environmental ethicsLes Ateliers de l'Éthique / the Ethics Forum 13 (1): 143-158. 2018.GREGORY McELWAIN | : This paper explores the intersection of animal and environmental ethics through the thought of Mary Midgley. Midgley’s work offers a shift away from liberal individualist animal ethics toward a relational value system involving interdependence, care, sympathy, and other components of morality that were often overlooked or marginalized in hyperrationalist ethics, though which are now more widely recognized. This is most exemplified in her concept of “the mixed community,” whi…Read more
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518Ethics of animal use (review)Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 22 (3): 291-293. 2009.
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283The Mixed CommunityIn Ian James Kidd & Liz McKinnell (eds.), Science and the Self: Animals, Evolution, and Ethics: Essays in Honour of Mary Midgley, Routledge. pp. 41-51. 2016.
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165Mary Midgley: An IntroductionBloomsbury Academic Press. 2020.For over 40 years, Mary Midgley made a forceful case for the relevance and importance of philosophy. With characteristic wit and wisdom, she drew special attention to the ways in which our thought influences our everyday lives. Her wide-ranging explorations of human nature and the self; our connections with animals and the natural world; and the complexities of morality, gender, science, and religion all contributed to her reputation as one of the most expansive and compelling moral philosophers…Read more
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30Relationality in the Thought of Mary MidgleyRoyal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 87 235-248. 2020.For over 40 years, Mary Midgley has been celebrated for the sensibility with which she approached some of the most challenging and pressing issues in philosophy. Her expansive corpus addresses such diverse topics as human nature, morality, animals and the environment, gender, science, and religion. While there are many threads that tie together this impressive plurality of topics, the thread of relationality unites much of Midgley's thought on human nature and morality. This paper explores Midgl…Read more
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14Mary Midgley: Philosophical PlumberTimes Literary Supplement: Footnotes to Plato. 2021.The ethicist who insisted that humans are inherently interconnected.
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Mary Midgley on What Matters: Conversations on Science, Ethics, and Nature (Forthcoming)Bloomsbury Academic Press. forthcoming.Preliminary Abstract: The late Mary Midgley (1919-2018) was one of the most relevant and wide-ranging moral philosophers of the last century. For over forty years, she drew attention to the necessity of philosophy in everyday life while making significant contributions on such topics as human nature, ethics, animals and the environment, science, religion, and other real-world issues. Midgley’s remarkable career saw the publication of over 250 books, journal articles, pamphlets, and other materia…Read more
Gregory McElwain
The College Of Idaho
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The College Of IdahoPhilosophy and Religious StudiesProfessor
Areas of Specialization
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Environmental Ethics |
Animal Ethics |
Philosophy of Religion |
General Philosophy of Science |
Religious Studies |
Ethical Theories, Miscellaneous |