Mary Midgley, a leading British moral philosopher who became an accessible, persistent and sometimes witty critic of the view that modern science should be the sole arbiter of reality, died on ...

For a subject that is supposed to grapple with timeless questions, philosophy is chronically vulnerable to changing fashions. Trends come and go, one philosopher is all the rage, then the moment ...

Mary Midgley, aged 81, may be the most frightening philosopher in the country: the one before whom it is least pleasant to appear a fool. One moment she sits by her fire in Newcastle like a ...

Myths We Live By by Mary Midgley 192pp, Routledge, £19.99 Beware big ideas. They may beguile by seeming to explain a whole bunch of stuff from a single, simple standpoint. But they will mislead you in ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In 2014, the philosopher Mary Midgley, who has died aged 99, told the Financial Times: “Shouting and protesting ...

We celebrate the thought of Mary Midgley, whose writing ranges across animal ethics, religion, science, and the natural world, connecting philosophical thought to lived experience. A fierce opponent ...

You are a figment of your own imagination; an impotent spectre conjured by the workings of millions of tiny brain cells. What you think of as yourself – and the selves of your loved ones too – are ...

The only really dangerous ground in philosophy is the middle ground. Arguing the esoteric and contentious defines you as a star player, while striving for consensus tends to mark you out as thoroughly ...

We celebrate the thought of Mary Midgley, whose writing ranges across animal ethics, religion, science, and the natural world, connecting philosophical thought to lived experience. A fierce opponent ...