Identity / edited by Giselle Walker, Elisabeth Leedham-Green.
"There is a spectrum of identities: from the mathematical, through cases where specific criteria matter, to the complex or intuitive cases where we can recognise identity but don't know what the criteria should be. In a series of essays by senior figures in the sciences and humanities, this book exa...
| Uniform Title: | Darwin College lectures.
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2010.
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| Series: | Darwin College lectures.
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| Physical Description: | x, 217 pages : illustrations. |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. Identity of meaning Adrian Poole; 2. Identity and the law Lionel Bently; 3. Species-identity Peter Crane; 4. Mathematical identity Marcus Du Sautoy; 5. Immunological identity Philippa Marrack; 6. Visualizing identity Ludmilla Jordanova; 7. Musical identity Christopher Hogwood; 8. Identity and the mind Raymond Tallis; Notes on the contributors; Index.