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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. 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.
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- Title Identity
- Author Henry Harris (Editor)
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First edition
- Pages 184
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher OUP Oxford, Fairlawn, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- Date 1995-05-25
- ISBN 9780198235255 / 0198235259
- Weight 0.78 lbs (0.35 kg)
- Dimensions 8.82 x 5.68 x 0.65 in (22.40 x 14.43 x 1.65 cm)
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- Chronological Period: Modern
- Library of Congress subjects Identity (Psychology), Gender identity
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 94038255
- Dewey Decimal Code 126
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