Identity: Essays Based on Herbert Spencer Lectures Given in the University of Oxford [Reprint ed.] 9780198235255, 0198235259

Who am I, and what am I? The question is one asked through the ages, answered in various ways in different disciplines.

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Identity: Essays Based on Herbert Spencer Lectures Given in the University of Oxford [Reprint ed.]
9780198235255, 0198235259

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Henry Harris (editor)

Table of contents :
Chapter 1 - Identity and Identities- Bernard Williams
Chapter 2 - The UnImportance of Identity - Derek Parfit
Chapter 3 - An Experimentalist look at Identity - Henry Harris
Chapter 4 - Sexual Identity: Reality or Construction - Michael Ruse
Chapter 5 - Fictional Identity - Terence Cave
Chapter 6 - The Formation of national Identity -Anthony D. Smith

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