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Oxford: Blackwell, 2004. Midgley , Mary. The Ethical Primate: Humans, Freedom, and Morality . New York: Routledge, 1996. Midgley, Mary. Beast and Man: The Roots of Human Nature . Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1978.

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The British philosopher Mary Midgley has used the metaphor of the maps recently in arguing for an approach to consciousness which is neither reductionist nor dualist . She argues that different sorts of mental phenomena - and aspects of

the coastlines’, as Mary Midgley suggests might enable us to see ‘consonances’ - places where the descriptions of reality offered by the two types of mapping seem to show a particularly close relation, when they (to change the

of atoms and forces. As Mary Midgley has recently emphasised, consciousness, and indeed society and politics and the like, are not any less real than the atoms of which they are made, and the maps drawn of them should not be regarded as

Continuum, 2006. Midgley , Mary. Evolution as a Religion: Strange Hopes and Stranger Fears . New York: Methuen, 1985. Moore, James R. The Post-Darwinian Controversies: A Study of the Protestant Struggle to Come to Terms with

University Press, 2001. Midgley , Mary. Science as Salvation: A Modern Myth and Its Meaning . New York: Routledge, 1992. Miller, Kenneth R. Finding Darwin ’s God: A Scientist’s Search for Common Ground Between God and