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Descartes: The Project Of Pure EnquiryISBN 0855279613 (0-85527-961-3)
Hardcover, Harvester Press
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Education and Values: The Richard Peters Lectures, Delivered at the Institute of Education, University of London, Spring Term, 1985by Anthony Quinton, Graham Haydon, Alasdair C. MacIntyre, Bernard Arthur Owen Williams , University of LondonISBN 0854732721 (0-85473-272-1)
Hardcover, The Institute
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In The Beginning Was The Deed: Realism And Moralism In Political Argumentby Geoffrey Hawthorn, Bernard Arthur Owen WilliamsISBN 0691124302 (0-691-12430-2)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Meditations on First Philosophy: With Selections from the Objections and Repliesby Rene Descartes, John Cottingham, Bernard Arthur Owen WilliamsISBN 0521558182 (0-521-55818-2)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Meditations on First Philosophy: With Selections from the Objections and Replies'Book summary:This authoritative translation by John Cottingham of the Meditations is taken from the much acclaimed three-volume Cambridge edition of the Philosophical Writings of Descartes. It is based on the best available texts and presents Descartes' central metaphysical writings in clear, readable modern English. [via]
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Moral Luck: Philosophical Papers, 1973-1980by Rene Descartes, John Cottingham, Bernard Arthur Owen WilliamsISBN 0521243726 (0-521-24372-6)
Hardcover, Cambridge University Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Moral Luck: Philosophical Papers, 1973-1980'Book summary:A new volume of philosophical essays by Bernard Williams. The book is a successor to Problems of the Self, but whereas that volume dealt mainly with questions of personal identity, Moral Luck centres on questions of moral philosophy and the theory of rational action. That whole area has of course been strikingly reinvigorated over the last deacde, and philosophers have both broadened and deepened their concerns in a way that now makes much earlier moral and political philosophy look sterile and trivial. Moral Luck contains a number of essays that have contributed influentially to this development. Among the recurring themes are the moral and philosophical limitations of utilitarianism, the notion of integrity, relativism, and problems of moral conflict and rational choice. The work presented here is marked by a high degree of imagination and acuity, and also conveys a strong sense of psychological reality. The volume will be a stimulating source of ideas and arguments for all philosophers and a wide range of other readers. [via]
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Morality:an Introduction to Ethics: An Introduction to Ethicsby Bernard Arthur Owen WilliamsISBN 0061316326 (0-06-131632-6)
Hardcover, Harper & Row
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Nietzsche: The Gay Scienceby Bernard Arthur Owen WilliamsISBN 0521636450 (0-521-63645-0)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nietzsche: The Gay Science'Book summary:Nietzsche wrote The Gay Science, which he later described as "perhaps my most personal book", when he was at the height of his intellectual powers, and the reader will find it an extensive and sophisticated treatment of the philosophical themes and views most central to Nietzsche's own thought and most influential on later thinkers. This volume presents the work in a new translation by Josefine Nauckhoff, with an introduction by Bernard Williams that elucidates the work's main themes and discusses their continuing importance. [via]
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Obscenity and Film Censorship: An Abridgement of the Williams Reportby Great Britain, Bernard Arthur Owen WilliamsISBN 0521242673 (0-521-24267-3)
Hardcover, Cambridge University Press
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Philosophy As a Humanistic Disciplineby Bernard Arthur Owen Williams , A. W. MooreISBN 0691124264 (0-691-12426-4)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Plato: The Invention of Philosophyby Bernard Arthur Owen WilliamsISBN 0753802155 (0-7538-0215-5)
Hardcover, Phoenix
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Politics, Ethics and Public Serviceby Bernard Arthur Owen Williams , Royal Institute of Public Administration StaffISBN 0900628375 (0-900628-37-5)
Softcover, Royal Institute of Public Administration - Tasmania
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The Practice Of Valueby Bernard Arthur Owen Williams , Royal Institute of Public Administration StaffISBN 0199261474 (0-19-926147-4)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Problems of the Self: Philosophical Papers 1956-1972by Bernard Arthur Owen WilliamsISBN 0521202256 (0-521-20225-6)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Report of the Committee on Obscenity and Film Censorshipby Bernard Arthur Owen WilliamsISBN 0101777205 (0-10-177720-5)
Softcover, Stationery Office, The
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The Sense of the Past: Essays in the History of Philosophyby Bernard Arthur Owen Williams , Myles BurnyeatISBN 0691124779 (0-691-12477-9)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Shame and Necessityby Bernard Arthur Owen WilliamsISBN 0520088301 (0-520-08830-1)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Truth & Truthfulness: An Essay in Genealogyby Bernard Arthur Owen WilliamsISBN 0691117918 (0-691-11791-8)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Truth & Truthfulness: An Essay in Genealogy'Book summary:At the heart of Truth and Truthfulness lie a number of questions about truth. What does it mean to be truthful? What role does truth play in our lives? What do we lose if we reject truthfulness? Bernard Williams sets out to answer these questions by identifying two prominent and conflicting currents of ideas in modern thought and culture. On the one hand there is the commitment to truthfulness and on the other there is a pervasive suspicion about truth itself. The suspicion amounts to a questioning of the idea that there is such a thing as truth and, if there is, a doubt as to whether it can be more than subjective or relative.
The commitment to the idea of truthfulness on the other hand relates to what Williams calls "the two basic virtues of truth", which he calls Accuracy and Sincerity: "you do the best you can to acquire true beliefs, and what you say reveals what you believe." The tension between truthfulness and truth is, Williams suggests, expressed in a familiar contrast between two different and opposed ways of doing philosophy. Williams highlights the strengths and weaknesses of both positions while giving his own virtuoso philosophical display during the course of the book.
The real problems for the reader begin with the overall explanatory framework. Having differentiated between "truth" and "truthfulness" and between the two different philosophical outlooks Williams states that his main concern throughout is with what "may summarily be called 'the value of truth'". It is with the introduction of this term that the equivocation--between "truth" understood as a philosophical term (the idea of "truth itself") and "truthfulness" understood as a virtue, or set of virtues--begins.
Williams talks as if "truth itself" and the virtue of truthfulness, while conceptually distinct, are somehow all of a piece. It is one thing to say, with Williams, that we (as individuals and as a society) stand to lose a great deal (and "possibly everything") if the virtues of being truthful were discarded throughout western liberal democracies. But it is quite another to say that to stop talking about "truth itself" would mean the end of liberal democracy. In other words it is difficult to share Williams' conviction that something as big and important as the fate of liberal democracy might depend on the resolution of these philosophical disputes.
For all the impressive display of philosophical expertise Williams' way of mapping the present philosophical terrain is not as useful as he might have hoped and the book as a whole requires a good deal of time and sustained concentration to get through to the end. Try reading Rorty's Truth and Progress alongside Williams' Truth and Truthfulness for illuminating contrast effects. --Larry Brown [via]
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Utilitarianism and Beyondby Amartya Sen, Bernard Arthur Owen WilliamsISBN 0521287715 (0-521-28771-5)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Utilitarianism: For and Againstby Bernard Arthur Owen Williams , John Jamieson Carswell SmartISBN 052109822X (0-521-09822-X)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Utilitarianism: For and Against'Book summary:Two essays on utilitarianism, written from opposite points of view, by J. J. C. Smart and Bernard Williams. In the first part of the book Professor Smart advocates a modern and sophisticated version of classical utilitarianism; he tries to formulate a consistent and persuasive elaboration of the doctrine that the rightness and wrongness of actions is determined solely by their consequences, and in particular their consequences for the sum total of human happiness. This is a revised version of Professor Smart's famous essay 'an outline of a system of utilitarian ethics', first published in 1961 but long unobtainable. In Part II Bernard Williams offers a sustained and vigorous critique of utilitarian assumptions, arguments and ideals. He finds inadequate the theory of action implied by utilitarianism, and he argues that utilitarianism fails to engage at a serious level with the real problems of moral and political philosophy, and fails to make sense of notions such as integrity, or even human happiness itself. Both authors are agreed on utilitarianism's importance: it cuts across a number of different philosophical disputes and combines a systematic account of mata-ethical problems with a distinctive and substantive moral stand. It thus is, or involves, philosophy in both the traditional and the narrower, professional sense of the word, and is a key topic (often the first topic) in introductory philosophy courses. This book should also be of interest to welfare economists, political scientists and decision-theorists. [via]
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La Philosophie Morale Britanniqueby Bernard Arthur Owen Williams , Monique Canto-SperberISBN 2130464114 (2-13-046411-4)
Hardcover, Presses universitaires de France
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