Shame and Necessity
- N. Austin, B. Williams
- Philosophy, Psychology
- 1993
We tend to suppose that the ancient Greeks had primitive ideas of the self, of responsibility, freedom, and shame, and that now humanity has advanced from these to a more refined moral consciousness.…
Moral Luck: Internal and external reasons
- B. Williams
- Philosophy
- 1 December 1981
Sentences of the forms ‘ A has a reason to φ’ or ‘There is a reason for A to φ’ (where ‘φ’ stands in for some verb of action) seem on the face of it to have two different sorts of interpretation. On…
Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy
- B. Williams
- Philosophy
- 1 March 1988
Foreword to The Routledge Classics Edition Preface 1. Socrates' Question 2.The Archimedian Point 3. Foundations: Well-Being 4. Foundations: Practical Reason 5. Styles of Ethical Theory 6. Theory and…
Truth and Truthfulness: An Essay in Genealogy
- B. Williams
- Philosophy
- 25 August 2002
In the late twentieth century, the humanities were wracked by dissent about the status of truth. Relativists, postmodernists, and cynics called into question the very possibility of truth, arguing…
Responsibility
- B. Williams
- PsychologyMental Health
- 31 July 2021
?2.25 45s Philosophical discussions of responsibility , freedom of the will and such subjects seem often to stand at an enormous distance from the more immediate problems of psychiatry and the law.…
Realism and Moralism in Political Theory
- B. Williams
- Computer Science
- 2005
This book aims to provide a history of web exceptionalism from 1989 to 2002, a period chosen in order to explore its roots as well as specific cases up to and including the year in which descriptions of “Web 2.0” began to circulate.
In the Beginning Was the Deed: Realism and Moralism in Political Argument
- B. Williams
- Philosophy
- 9 February 2009
Preface by Patricia Williams vii Introduction by Geoffrey Hawthorn xi CHAPTER ONE: Realism and Moralism in Political Theory 1 CHAPTER TWO: In the Beginning Was the Deed 18 CHAPTER THREE: Pluralism,…
Moral Luck: Philosophical Papers 1973–1980
- B. Williams
- Philosophy
- 3 December 1981
Preface Acknowledgements 1. Persons, character and morality 2. Moral luck 3. Utilitarianism and moral self-indulgence 4. Politics and moral character 5. Conflicts of values 6. Justice as a virtue 7.…
Problems of the self : philosophical papers, 1956-1972
- B. Williams
- Philosophy, Psychology
- 14 June 1973
Preface 1. Personal identity and individuation 2. Personal identity and bodily continuity 3. Imagination and the self 4. The self and the future 5. Are persons bodies? 6. The Makropulos case:…
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