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Reading Bernard Williams

Author : Daniel Callcut
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Ethics
ISBN : 9780415771894

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When Bernard Williams died in 2003, the Times newspaper hailed him as 'the greatest moral philosopher of his generation'. This collection of essays on Williams' work is essential reading for anyone interested in Williams, ethics and moral philosophy and philosophy in general.

Reading Bernard Williams

Author : Daniel Callcut
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2008-11-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134002979

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When Bernard Williams died in 2003, the Times newspaper hailed him ‘as the greatest moral philosopher of his generation’. This outstanding collection of specially commissioned new essays on Williams's work is essential reading for anyone interested in Williams, ethics and moral philosophy and philosophy in general. Reading Bernard Williams examines the astonishing scope of his philosophy from metaphysics and philosophy of mind to ethics, political philosophy and the history of philosophy. An international line up of outstanding contributors discuss, amongst others, the following central aspects of Williams's work: Williams's challenge to contemporary moral philosophy and his criticisms of 'absolute' theories of morality reason and rationality the good life the emotions Williams and the phenomenological tradition philosophical and political agency moral and political luck ethical relativism Contributors : Simon Blackburn; John Cottingham; Frances Ferguson; Joshua Gert; Peter Goldie; Charles Guignon; Sharon Krause; Christopher Kutz; Daniel Markovits; Elijah Millgram; Martha Naussbaum; Carol Rovane

Reading Bernard Williams

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781134002986

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On Opera

Author : Bernard Williams
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780300142280

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A lifelong opera lover, Bernard Williams's articles and essays, talks for the BBC, contributions to the Grove Dictionary of Opera, and program notes for the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and the English National Opera, generated a devoted following. This volume brings together these widely scattered and largely unobtainable pieces, including two that have not been previously published. It covers an engaging range of topics from Mozart to Wagner, including essays on specific operas by those composers as well as Verdi, Puccini, Strauss, Debussy, Janacek, and Tippett. --From publisher's description.

Luck, Value, and Commitment

Author : Ulrike Heuer,Gerald Lang
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191631542

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Luck, Value, and Commitment comprises eleven new essays which engage with, or take their point of departure from, the influential work in moral and political philosophy of Bernard Williams (1929-2003). Various themes of Williams's work are explored and taken in new directions. In their essays, Brad Hooker, Philip Pettit, and Susan Wolf are all concerned with Williams's work on the viability or wisdom of systematic moral theory, and his criticism, in particular, of moral theory's preoccupation with impartiality. David Enoch, Joseph Raz, and R. Jay Wallace address Williams's work on moral luck, and his insistence that moral appraisals bear a disquieting sensitivity to various kinds of luck. Wallace makes further connections between moral luck and the 'non-identity problem' in reproductive ethics. Michael Smith and Ulrike Heuer investigate Williams's defence of 'internalism' about reasons for action, which makes our reasons for action a function of our desires, projects, and psychological dispositions. Smith attempts to plug a gap in Williams's theory which is created by Williams's deference to imagination, while Heuer connects these issues to Williams's accommodation of 'thick' ethical concepts as a source of knowledge and action-guidingness. John Broome examines Williams's less-known work on the other central normative concept, 'ought'. Jonathan Dancy takes a look at Williams's work on moral epistemology and intuitionism, comparing and contrasting his work with that of John McDowell, and Gerald Lang explores Williams's work on equality, discrimination, and interspecies relations in order to reach the conclusion, similar to Williams's, that 'speciesism' is very unlike racism or sexism.

Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy

Author : Bernard Williams
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781136807244

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With a new foreword by Jonathan Lear 'Remarkably lively and enjoyable...It is a very rich book, containing excellent descriptions of a variety of moral theories, and innumerable and often witty observations on topics encountered on the way.' - Times Literary Supplement Bernard Williams was one of the greatest philosophers of his generation. Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy is not only widely acknowledged to be his most important book, but also hailed a contemporary classic of moral philosophy. Drawing on the ideas of the Greek philosophers, Williams reorients ethics away from a preoccupation with universal moral theories towards ‘truth, truthfulness and the meaning of an individual life’. He explores and reflects upon the most difficult problems in contemporary philosophy and identifies new ideas about central issues such as relativism, objectivity and the possibility of ethical knowledge. This edition also includes a commentary on the text by A.W.Moore. At the time of his death in 2003, Bernard Williams was hailed by the Times as 'the outstanding moral philosopher of his age.' He taught at the Universities of Cambridge, Berkeley and Oxford and is the author of many influential books, including Morality; Descartes: The Project of Pure Enquiry (available from Routledge) and Truth and Truthfulness.

Plato

Author : Bernard Arthur Owen Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:49015002525609

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Takes the reader back to first principles, re-reading the key texts to reveal what the philosopher actually said.

Utilitarianism

Author : J. J. C. Smart,Bernard Williams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 052109822X

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A serious and controversial work in which the authors contribute essays from opposite points of view on utilitarian assumptions, arguments and ideals.

Making Sense of Humanity

Author : Bernard Williams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1995-06-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521478685

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Collection of philosophical papers

Truth and Truthfulness

Author : Bernard Williams
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781400825141

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What does it mean to be truthful? What role does truth play in our lives? What do we lose if we reject truthfulness? No philosopher is better suited to answer these questions than Bernard Williams. Writing with his characteristic combination of passion and elegant simplicity, he explores the value of truth and finds it to be both less and more than we might imagine. Modern culture exhibits two attitudes toward truth: suspicion of being deceived (no one wants to be fooled) and skepticism that objective truth exists at all (no one wants to be naive). This tension between a demand for truthfulness and the doubt that there is any truth to be found is not an abstract paradox. It has political consequences and signals a danger that our intellectual activities, particularly in the humanities, may tear themselves to pieces. Williams's approach, in the tradition of Nietzsche's genealogy, blends philosophy, history, and a fictional account of how the human concern with truth might have arisen. Without denying that we should worry about the contingency of much that we take for granted, he defends truth as an intellectual objective and a cultural value. He identifies two basic virtues of truth, Accuracy and Sincerity, the first of which aims at finding out the truth and the second at telling it. He describes different psychological and social forms that these virtues have taken and asks what ideas can make best sense of them today. Truth and Truthfulness presents a powerful challenge to the fashionable belief that truth has no value, but equally to the traditional faith that its value guarantees itself. Bernard Williams shows us that when we lose a sense of the value of truth, we lose a lot both politically and personally, and may well lose everything.

World, Mind, and Ethics

Author : James Edward John Altham,Ross Harrison
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1995-04-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521479304

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World, Mind, and Ethics by James Edward John Altham,Ross Harrison Pdf

A distinguished international team of philosophers offer responses to the work of Bernard Williams, followed by the author's reply.

Reasons and Persons

Author : Derek Parfit
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1986-01-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191622441

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This book challenges, with several powerful arguments, some of our deepest beliefs about rationality, morality, and personal identity. The author claims that we have a false view of our own nature; that it is often rational to act against our own best interests; that most of us have moral views that are directly self-defeating; and that, when we consider future generations the conclusions will often be disturbing. He concludes that moral non-religious moral philosophy is a young subject, with a promising but unpredictable future.

Philosophy as a Humanistic Discipline

Author : Bernard Williams
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2009-02-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781400827091

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What can--and what can't--philosophy do? What are its ethical risks--and its possible rewards? How does it differ from science? In Philosophy as a Humanistic Discipline, Bernard Williams addresses these questions and presents a striking vision of philosophy as fundamentally different from science in its aims and methods even though there is still in philosophy "something that counts as getting it right." Written with his distinctive combination of rigor, imagination, depth, and humanism, the book amply demonstrates why Williams was one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century. Spanning his career from his first publication to one of his last lectures, the book's previously unpublished or uncollected essays address metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics, as well as the scope and limits of philosophy itself. The essays are unified by Williams's constant concern that philosophy maintain contact with the human problems that animate it in the first place. As the book's editor, A. W. Moore, writes in his introduction, the title essay is "a kind of manifesto for Williams's conception of his own life's work." It is where he most directly asks "what philosophy can and cannot contribute to the project of making sense of things"--answering that what philosophy can best help make sense of is "being human." Philosophy as a Humanistic Discipline is one of three posthumous books by Williams to be published by Princeton University Press. In the Beginning Was the Deed: Realism and Moralism in Political Argument was published in the fall of 2005. The Sense of the Past: Essays in the History of Philosophy is being published shortly after the present volume.

Problems of the Self

Author : Bernard Williams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0521290600

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This is a volume of philosophical studies, centred on problems of personal identity and extending to related topics in the philosophy of mind and moral philosophy.

Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity

Author : Richard Rorty
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1989-02-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521367816

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In this 1989 book Rorty argues that thinkers such as Nietzsche, Freud, and Wittgenstein have enabled societies to see themselves as historical contingencies, rather than as expressions of underlying, ahistorical human nature or as realizations of suprahistorical goals. This ironic perspective on the human condition is valuable on a private level, although it cannot advance the social or political goals of liberalism. In fact Rorty believes that it is literature not philosophy that can do this, by promoting a genuine sense of human solidarity. A truly liberal culture, acutely aware of its own historical contingency, would fuse the private, individual freedom of the ironic, philosophical perspective with the public project of human solidarity as it is engendered through the insights and sensibilities of great writers. The book has a characteristically wide range of reference from philosophy through social theory to literary criticism. It confirms Rorty's status as a uniquely subtle theorist, whose writing will prove absorbing to academic and nonacademic readers alike.