Individualism and the concept of Gaia

Review of International Studies

Volumn 26, Issue SPEC. ISS., 2000, Pages 29-44

  Midgley, Mary ^a  

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EID: 25444503008     PISSN: 02602105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0260210500000292     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. Plato, Timaeus, § 33.
2. Karl Popper, 'Of Clouds And Clocks', in Objective Knowledge; An Evolutionary Approach (Oxford University Press, 1972), p. 222.
3. James Lovelock, The Ages of Gaia (Oxford University Press, 1988), p. 5.
4. Lovelock, Gaia: The Practical Science of Planetary Medicine (London, Gaia Books, 1991), pp. 21-2. Emphasis mine.
5. Gaia: The Practical Science of Planetary Medicine Ibid., p. 111.
6. Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan, What is Life? (London: Weidenfeld, 1995), p. 26. Emphasis mine.
7. For a review of recent discussions see Timothy M. Lenton, 'Gaia And Natural Selection', in Nature, 394, 30 July 1998.
8. Lewis Thomas, The Lives Of A Cell (London: Futura, 1976), p. 170.
9. Lovelock, Gaia: The Practical Science of Planetary Medicine, p. 131.
10. See, for instance, Keith Devlin in Goodbye Descartes; The End of Logic and the Search for a New Cosmology of the Mind (New York, John Wiley & Sons, 1997) and the entire works of Richard Rorty.
11. For examples, see John Passmore, Man's Responsibility For Nature (London: Duckworth, 1974), ch. 1.
12. There is now a thriving Journal of Consciousness Studies - something that would have been inconceivable twenty years ago.
13. On the radical interdependence between their religious and scientific thinking see Margaret Wertheim, Pythagoras' Trousers, God, Physics and the Gender Wars (London: Fourth Estate, 1997), chs. 5 and 6.
14. This is the topic of his book Gaia, The Practical Science of Planetary Medicine.