Cambridge Minds
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Cambridge Minds

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Cambridge Minds

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This collection of essays by a group of leading authorities is addressed primarily to a non-specialist readership, with the aim of introducing people and achievements associated with the University of Cambridge over the past 150 years. It explains, in simple terms, what has been done in a wide variety of fields – including philosophy (Ray Monk on Russell, Peter Hacker on Wittgenstein, Robert Grant on Oakeshott); economics (Geoffrey Harcourt on Keynes); anthropology (Ernest Gellner on Frazer); the study of English (Stephen Heath on Richards and Leavis). Some who have made important contributions to Cambridge science describe their own work and discoveries - Max Perutz in molecular biology; Antony Hewish in radioastronomy; Simon Conway Morris in palaeontology. As a whole the book offers an intellectual portrait of many of modern Cambridge's most notable achievements which will be of interest to a broad range of readers within the University and far beyond.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Notes on contributors
  7. Preface
  8. 1 The effects of a broken home: Bertrand Russell and Cambridge
  9. 2 I. A. Richards, F. R. Leavis and Cambridge English
  10. 3 Emily Davies, the Sidgwicks and the education of women in Cambridge
  11. 4 Radioastronomy in Cambridge
  12. 5 Three Cambridge prehistorians
  13. 6 John Maynard Keynes
  14. 7 Mathematics in Cambridge and beyond
  15. 8 James Stuart: engineering, philanthropy and radical politics
  16. 9 The Darwins in Cambridge
  17. 10 How the Burgess Shale came to Cambridge; and what happened
  18. 11 Ludwig Wittgenstein
  19. 12 'Brains in their fingertips': physics at the Cavendish Laboratory 1880-1940
  20. 13 J. N. Figgis and the history of political thought in Cambridge
  21. 14 Molecular biology in Cambridge
  22. 15 James Frazer and Cambridge anthropology
  23. 16 Michael Oakeshott