The Concept of Beastliness Translated into Japanese
Mary Midgley’s “The Concept of Beastliness: Philosophy, Ethics and Animal Behaviour” has been translated into Japanese for the Tokyo leg of our project, Notes from a Biscuit Tin. Transalted by Shoko Kinoshita, our Japanese readers can download the text here. We’re so thrilled to be able to host this and thank the Geoff and Mary Midgley […]
‘Rings and Books’ by Mary Midgley
Midgley wrote this essay in the mid-1950s for BBC radio. In her memoir The Owl of Minerva, she recalls:
“I wrote it because I had suddenly been struck by the fact that nearly all the famous philosophers whose lives we know about were lifelong bachelors…
Philippa Foot ‘Sir’ letter
In May 1983, Philippa Foot was elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She was sent a rather grand certificate informing her of the honor. As you may notice, the certificate is addressed: ‘Sir’. In 1983! Foot wrote this wonderful letter to the AAAS in reply. Photo of Certificate, Photo of […]
Then and Now
by Mary Midgley Mary Midgley Considers How What Is Called Philosophy Has Changed Since She And Her Friends First Plunged Into It Changes In World-Pictures. When we four people started studying Philosophy at Oxford in the early 1940s, quite a lot of the topics that we might have expected to discuss – most importantly, Human […]
Philippa Foot’s response to being addressed as ‘Sir’
In May 1983, Philippa Foot was elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She was sent a rather grand certificate (click to enlarge) informing her of the honor: As you may notice, the certificate is addressed: ‘Sir’. In 1983! Foot wrote this wonderful letter to the AAAS in reply. […]