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Reading Bernard Williams / edited by Daniel Callcut.
Van Pelt Library BJ604.W553 R43 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Williams, Bernard, 1929-2003.
- Williams, Bernard.
- Ethics.
- Philosophy, Modern--20th century.
- Philosophy, Modern.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 292 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2009.
- Summary:
- 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 work will be 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 conduct a wide-ranging discussion of the central aspects of Williams' work, including:
- Williams' 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
- Contents:
- Introduction / Daniel Callcut
- Ethics and metaphysics
- The absolute conception : Putnam vs Williams / Simon Blackburn
- The good life and the "radical contingency of the ethical" / John Cottingham
- Did Williams find the truth in relativism? / Carol Rovane
- Human reasons
- Williams on reasons and rationality / Joshua Gert
- Thick concepts and emotion / Peter Goldie
- The architecture of integrity / Daniel Markovits
- Stories and self-conceptions
- D'où venons-nous, que sommes nous, où allons-nous? / Elijah Millgram
- Williams and the phenomenological tradition / Charles Guignon
- Bernard Williams and the importance of being literarily earnest / Frances Ferguson
- Political realism
- Bernard Williams : tragedies, hope, justice / Martha Nussbaum
- Against political luck / Christopher Kutz
- Political agency and the actual / Sharon R. Krause.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 9780415771894
- 0415771897
- 9780415771900
- 0415771900
- 9780203882597
- 0203882598
- OCLC:
- 166379168
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