Book - Themes and reading

If you'd like to stage conversations with your class, book club or reading group, here are some suggested readings (thanks to Amber Donovan!)  - and of course, biscuits are mandatory! Please upload photos of yours to our Instagram using the hashtags #notesfromabiscuittin and #slowphilosophy.

Love

The Ethical Primate
London: Routledge (1994), Chapters 12 & 13, 128-140

The Solitary Self
Durham: Acumen (2010), 61-62

The Self

Science and Poetry
London: Routledge (2006), Chapter 7, 111-121

Are You an Illusion?
Oxon: Routledge (2014), Chapter 11, 127-133

Science and Poetry
London: Routledge (2006), 200-205

Poetry

‘Philosophical Plumbing’
Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement, vol. 33 (1992), 139-151

Science and Poetry
Oxon: Routledge (2001), Introduction, 1-19

Reason

Beast and Man
London: Routledge (2002), Chapter 11, 250-272

Midgley, M. and Hughes, J. Women’s Choices
London: George Weidenfeld & Nicolson Limited (1983), 69-95

Science and Poetry 
London: Routledge (2006), Chapters 3 & 4, 51-79 OR 51-7 & 63-77

Holism

What Is Philosophy For?
London: Bloomsbury Publishing (2018), Chapters 1, 3 & 4, 3-6 & 15-30

Instinct

'Concept of Beastliness: Philosophy, Ethics and Animal Behaviour'
Philosophy, vol. 48 (1973), 111-135
View Japanese translation

Heart and Mind
Brighton: The Harvester Press Limited (1981), Chapter 9, 151-166

Scientism

Science and Poetry
London: Routledge (2001)

Language

Wisdom, Information and Wonder
London: Routledge (1989), Chapters 21 & 22, 217-38

Beasts

'Concept of Beastliness: Philosophy, Ethics and Animal Behaviour'
Philosophy, vol. 48 (1973), 111-135

Beast and Man
London: Routledge (2002), Chapter 2, 24-48

Myth

The Myths We Live By
London: Routledge (1990)

The Domestic

Midgley, M. and Hughes, J. Women’s Choices
London: George Weidenfeld & Nicolson Limited (1983), 167-84

OR

‘Rings and Books’, a rejected radio script, originally written in the mid-1950s
First published online at www.womeninparenthesis.co.uk