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Mary Midgley

• johngossman 3y ago
  Thank you! I love Mary Midgley and now that you mention it, it makes sense. Of course, there's the Oxford connection, and Midgley was critical of reductionist materialism, though she was no Christian apologist. There are loops within loops here, such as the Anscombe connection to both of them. Your comment led me to this: https://www.lewisiana.nl/marymidgley/ https://www.lewisiana.nl/marymidgley/
• n4r9 3y ago
  Thank you. The name vaguely rings a bell but certainly not someone I know much about. The natural follow-up question -although probably hard to answer - is whether the existing philosophy faculty includes others like Midgley who have a positive view of Lewis, to the extent that it would influence this decision. I would have expected most of the philosophers there to be in the analytic tradition, but happy to be shown wrong.