Space may be limited, but if you wish to attend this lecture please contact the
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2003 Colston Lecture on Science and Society
Wednesday, 10th December 2003
4.15 pm Fletcher Hall, NIMR
Professor Mary Midgley
"Taking the planet seriously"
The National Institute for Medical Research at Mill Hill, London, is launching a new
annual lecture ("The Colston Lecture") on the theme of Science and Society. The
intention is that the lecture will provide a focal point at NIMR for discussion of
Science & Society issues and will stimulate greater awareness amongst scientists
of the need for dialogue with the public.
Mary Midgley is a professional philosopher whose special interests are in the
relations of humans to the rest of nature (particularly in the status of animals) in the
sources of morality, and in the relation between science and religion (particularly
in cases where science becomes a religion). In recent years she has become
particularly interested in the concept of Gaia, in which all these central concerns
come together.
Until retirement she was a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of
Newcastle on Tyne in England, where she still lives. She is a widow. Her husband
was another philosopher, Geoffrey Midgley, and she has three sons.
Her best-known books are:
· Beast And Man
· Evolution As A Religion
· Science As Salvation
· Wickedness, Science and Poetry (in the last chapter of which she deals directly
with the concept of Gaia)
· The Myths We Live By (her most recent work)
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