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  • Descartesby Bernard Williams

    Taylor and Francis 2005; US$ 26.95

    Descartes has often been called the 'father of modern philosophy'.His attempts to find foundations for knowledge, and to reconcile the existence of the soul with the emerging science of his time, are among the most influential and widely studied in the history of philosophy. This is a classic and challenging introduction to Descartes by one of the... more...

  • Ethics and the Limits of Philosophyby Bernard Williams

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 29.95

    By the time of his death in 2003, 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. Presenting a sustained critique of moral theory from Kant onwards, Williams... more...

  • Truth and Truthfulnessby Bernard Williams

    Princeton University Press 2010; US$ 35.00

    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... more...

  • Problems of the Selfby Bernard Williams

    Cambridge University Press 1973; US$ 32.00

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

  • Making Sense of Humanityby Bernard Williams

    Cambridge University Press 1995; US$ 34.00

    Like the two earlier volumes of Bernard Williams's papers published by CUP, Problems of the Self and Moral Luck, this book will be welcomed by all readers with a serious interest in philosophy. more...

  • Ethics and the Limits of Philosophyby Bernard Williams

    Taylor and Francis 2011; US$ 22.95

    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.... more...

  • The Great Philosophers: Platoby Professor Bernard Williams

    Orion 2011; US$ 9.96

    Plato c428 ? c348BC Without the work of Plato, western thought is, quite literally, unthinkable. No single influence has been greater, in every age and in every philosophic field. Even those thinkers who have rejected Plato?s views have found themselves working to an agenda he set. Yet between the neo-platonist interpretations and the anti-platonist... more...

  • In the Beginning Was the Deedby Bernard Williams; Geoffrey Hawthorn

    Princeton University Press 2009; US$ 26.95

    Bernard Williams is remembered as one of the most brilliant and original philosophers of the past fifty years. Widely respected as a moral philosopher, Williams began to write about politics in a sustained way in the early 1980s. There followed a stream of articles, lectures, and other major contributions to issues of public concern--all complemented... more...

  • Philosophy as a Humanistic Disciplineby Bernard Williams; A. W. Moore

    Princeton University Press 2009; US$ 26.95

    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... more...

  • The Sense of the Pastby Myles Burnyeat; Bernard Williams

    Princeton University Press 2009; US$ 26.95

    Before his death in 2003, Bernard Williams planned to publish a collection of historical essays, focusing primarily on the ancient world. This posthumous volume brings together a much wider selection, written over some forty years. His legacy lives on in this masterful work, the first collection ever published of Williams's essays on the history of... more...