ABSTRACT
Mary Midgley is a philosopher of unusually wide-ranging interests – from the nature of human wickedness to the fallacies attached to the Anthropic Principle in cosmology. The present volume is an attempt to bring together a selection of her writings that show the continuity and connectedness of these diverse themes, so as to enable the reader to gain a grasp of her thought as a whole. In this Introduction I shall try to trace the connecting thread that leads from the initial impetus which motivated her writing through to her most recent work.
