The Last Baby Ever Born in the White House

Mary midgley is an outlier in some ways, because she comes to philosophy very late. Her career has this really odd shape, which makes it easy to not see how she's connected to the rest of her university friends as they all were. She takes off the 19 fifties to raise her three boys, and gets back to picking up some teaching at the university of newcastle in the mid sixties. But at that point she spent these off year s reading all the animal behaviour studies she can get her hands on. And so when she starts teaching and writing again in the late sixties, early seventies, she is synthesizing biology and the moral philosophy that her friends