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Philosopher
Moral philosopher (1919–2018)
Newcastle University · United Kingdom · d. 13 September 1919 (Dulwich, London) — 10 October 2018
Began publishing books in her late fifties and spent four decades arguing that human beings are best understood as animals with a complex nature, not as machines or as bundles of genes. A persistent critic of scientism and reductionism, she taught philosophy at Newcastle University, retiring as senior lecturer in 1980.
Mary Midgley was born on 13 September 1919, Montaigne died on 13 September 1592 and Feuerbach on 13 September 1872. Three thinkers, one suspicion: that we manufacture gods, myths and certainties, then treat them as though they had arrived from somewhere else.
Mary Midgley, Ludwig Feuerbach
