Cambridge Minds

Cambridge University Press, 10/12/2010
EAN 9780521456258, ISBN10: 0521456258

Paperback, 252 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.6 cm
Language: English

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.

Introduction
Notes on contributors
1. The effects of a broken home
Bertrand Russell and Cambridge Ray Monk
2. I. A. Richards, F. R. Leavis and Cambridge English Stephen Heath
3. Emily Davies, the Sidgwicks and the education of women in Cambridge Gillian Sutherland
4. Radioastronomy in Cambridge Antony Hewish
5. Three Cambridge prehistorians Colin Renfrew
6. John Maynard Keynes Geoffrey Harcourt
7. Mathematics in Cambridge and beyond Jeremy Gray
8. James Stuart
engineering, philanthropy and radical politics Paul McHugh
9. The Darwins in Cambridge Richard Keynes
10. How the Burgess Shale came to Cambridge
and what happened Simon Conway Morris
11. Ludwig Wittgenstein P. M. S. Hacker
12. 'Brains in their fingertips'
physics at the Cavendish Laboratory 1880–1940 Jeffrey Hughes
13. J. N. Figgis and the history of political thought in Cambridge Mark Goldie
14. Molecular biology in Cambridge M. F. Perutz
15. James Frazer and Cambridge anthropology Ernest Gellner
16. Michael Oakeshott Robert Grant.