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- catalog abstract "The essays that follow offer perspectives from outside philosophy: Michael Ruse considers homosexual identity and to what extent it is reasonable to claim that homosexuality is a social construct. Terence Cave looks at personal identity through the eye of literature and fiction, and portrays identity as generated through the narratives that one weaves about oneself or about other people. Finally, Anthony D. Smith looks at national identities and how they are formed, analysing how this process is shaped by the interplay of cultural inheritance, political expediency, and myth. Identity contains essays by six internationally famous contributors, focusing on different facets of identity from the viewpoints of their various disciplines. Two philosophers, Bernard Williams and Derek Parfit, discuss, respectively, numerical identity (when can we say that two phenomena observed at different times are one and the same thing?) and personal identity (how far can the concept of 'I' be stretched, and does it always matter whether we can say if that would still be me?). Henry Harris looks at philosophical discussions of identity from the perspective of an experimentalist, and discusses whether philosophical thought-experiments have any basis in scientific reality.".
- catalog contributor b7472960.
- catalog contributor b7472961.
- catalog created "1995.".
- catalog date "1995".
- catalog date "1995.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1995.".
- catalog description "1. Identity and Identities / Bernard Williams -- 2. The Unimportance of Identity / Derek Parfit -- 3. An Experimentalist Looks at Identity / Henry Harris -- 4. Sexual Identity: Reality or Construction? / Michael Ruse -- 5. Fictional Identities / Terence Cave -- 6. The Formation of National Identity / Anthony D. Smith.".
- catalog description "Identity contains essays by six internationally famous contributors, focusing on different facets of identity from the viewpoints of their various disciplines. Two philosophers, Bernard Williams and Derek Parfit, discuss, respectively, numerical identity (when can we say that two phenomena observed at different times are one and the same thing?) and personal identity (how far can the concept of 'I' be stretched, and does it always matter whether we can say if that would still be me?). Henry Harris looks at philosophical discussions of identity from the perspective of an experimentalist, and discusses whether philosophical thought-experiments have any basis in scientific reality.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "The essays that follow offer perspectives from outside philosophy: Michael Ruse considers homosexual identity and to what extent it is reasonable to claim that homosexuality is a social construct. Terence Cave looks at personal identity through the eye of literature and fiction, and portrays identity as generated through the narratives that one weaves about oneself or about other people. Finally, Anthony D. Smith looks at national identities and how they are formed, analysing how this process is shaped by the interplay of cultural inheritance, political expediency, and myth.".
- catalog extent "xi, 170 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0198235259 (alk. paper) :".
- catalog isPartOf "Herbert Spencer lecture.".
- catalog issued "1995".
- catalog issued "1995.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog subject "126 20".
- catalog subject "BF697 .I345 1995".
- catalog subject "Gender identity.".
- catalog subject "Group identity.".
- catalog subject "Identity (Psychology)".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Identity and Identities / Bernard Williams -- 2. The Unimportance of Identity / Derek Parfit -- 3. An Experimentalist Looks at Identity / Henry Harris -- 4. Sexual Identity: Reality or Construction? / Michael Ruse -- 5. Fictional Identities / Terence Cave -- 6. The Formation of National Identity / Anthony D. Smith.".
- catalog title "Identity : essays based on Herbert Spencer lectures given in the University of Oxford / edited by Henry Harris.".
- catalog type "text".