Offers a new way of thinking about the relation between personal identity and practical interests, seeing persons as unified loci of practical interaction and defining the identity of a person in terms of the unity of acharacteristic kind of life.
Offers a new way of thinking about the relation between personal identity and practical interests, seeing persons as unified loci of practical interaction and defining the identity of a person in terms of the unity of a characteristic kind of life.
Identity has become a core concept of the social and cultural sciences. Bringing together perspectives from sociology, anthropology, psychology, history and literary criticism, this book offers a comprehensive and critical overview of its use.
"Identity" has become a core concept of the social and cultural sciences. Bringing together perspectives from sociology, anthropology, psychology, history, and literary criticism, this book offers a comprehensive and critical overview on how this concept is currently used and ho…
Identity and Discrimination, originally published in 1990 and the first book by respected philosopher Timothy Williamson, is now reissued and updated with the inclusion of significant new material. Williamson here proposes an original and rigorous theory linking identity, a rela…
Reason's Traces addresses some of the key questions in the study of Indian and Buddhist thought: the analysis of personal identity and of ultimate reality, the interpretation of Tantric texts and traditions, and Tibetan approaches to the interpretation of Indian sources. Drawing…
