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BERNARD WILLIAMS (1929 - 2003)

CONFERENCES

• Themes from the Ethics of Bernard Williams, Department of Philosophy, University of Leeds, June 30-July 2

SOURCES: PRIMARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:
  • The Sense of the Past: Essays in the History of Philosophy.  Ed. Myles Burnyeat.  Princeton: Princeton UP, 2006.
  • Philosophy as a Humanistic Discipline.  Ed. A. W. Moore.  Princeton: Princeton UP, 2006.
  • In the Beginning Was the Deed: Realism and Moralism in Political Argument.  Ed. Geoffrey Hawthorn.  Princeton: Princeton UP, 2005.
  • Problems of the Self: Philosophical Papers, 1956-1972.  Cambridge: CUP, 1972.
• Selected Individual Works:
  • Truth and Truthfulness: an Essay in Genealogy.  Princeton: Princeton UP, 2002.
  • Making Sense of Humanity.  Cambridge: CUP, 1995.
  • "Philosophy As a Humanistic Discipline," Philosophy 75.294 (2000): 477-496.
  • "Understanding Homer: Literature, History and Ideal Anthropology."  Being Humans: Anthropological Universality and Particularity in Transdisciplinary Perspectives.  Ed. Neil Roughley.  Berlin: de Gruyter, 2000.
  • "Tolerating the Intolerable."  The Politics of Toleration.  Ed. Susan Mendes.  Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1999.
  • "Moral Responsibility and Political Freedom."  Cambridge Law Journal 56 (1997): .
  • "Stoic Philosophy and the Emotions: Reply to Richard Sorabji."  Aristotle and After.  Ed. R. Sorabji.  Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies Supplement 68 (1997): .
  • "Contemporary Philosophy: a Second Look."  The Blackwell Companion to Philosophy.  Ed. N. F. Bunnin.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1996.
  • "History, Morality, and the Test of Reflection."  The Sources of Normativity.  Ed. Onora O'Neill.  Cambridge: CUP, 1996.
  • "The Politics of Trust."  The Geography of Identity.  Ed. Patricia Yeager.  Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1996.
  • "The Women of Trachis: Fictions, Pessimism, Ethics."  The Greeks and Us.  Ed. R. B. Louden and P. Schollmeier.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1996.
  • "Truth, Politics and Self-Deception."  Social Research 63.3 (1996): .
  • "Toleration: An Impossible Virtue?"  Toleration: An Exclusive Virtue.  Ed. David Heyd.  Princeton: Princeton UP, 1996.
  • "Reasons, Values and the Theory of Persuasion."  Ethics, Rationality and Economic Behavior.  Ed. Francesco Farina, Frank Hahn and Stafano Vannucci.  Oxford: OUP, 1996.
  • "Truth in Ethics."  Ratio 8.3 (1995): 227-42.
  • "Acting as the Virtuous Person Acts."  Aristotle and Moral Realism.  Ed. Robert Heinaman.  Boulder: Westview, 1995.
  • "Ethics."  Philosophy: a Guide Through the Subject.  Ed. A. C. Grayling.  Oxford: OUP, 1995.
  • "Identity and Identities."  Identity: Essays Based on Herbert Spencer Lectures Given in the University of Oxford.  Ed. Henry Harris.  Oxford: OUP, 1995.
  • "Cratylus' Theory of Names and Its Refutation."  Language.  Ed. Stephen Everson.  Cambridge: CUP, 1994.
  • "Descartes and the Historiography of Philosophy."  Reason, Will and Sensation: Studies in Descartes's Metaphysics.  Ed. John Cottingham.  Oxford: OUP, 1994.
  • "The Actus Reus of Dr. Caligari."  Pennsylvania Law Review 142 (1994): .
  • "Pagan Justice and Christian Love."  Apeiron 26.3-4 (1993): 195-207.
  • Shame and Necessity.  Berkeley: U of California P, 1993.
  • Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy.  Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1985.
  • Moral Luck.  Cambridge: CUP, 1981.
  • Descartes: the Project of Pure Enquiry.  Hassocks: Harvester, 1978.
  • "A Critique of Utilitarianism."  Utilitarianism: For and Against.  By Williams and J. J. C. Smart.  Cambridge: CUP, 1973.
  • Problems of the Self.  Cambridge: CUP, 1973.
  • Morality: an Introduction to Ethics.  New York: Harper and Row, 1972.

On-Line:

SOURCES: SECONDARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:

  • Thomas, Alan, ed.  Bernard Williams.  Cambridge: CUP, 2007.

• Selected Individual Works:

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On-Line:

• Chappell, Timothy: Bernard Williams (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

• Wikipedia Encyclopedia: Bernard Williams

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