Essays and Reviews : 1959-2002 /

Bernard Williams was one of the most important philosophers of the last fifty years, but he was also a distinguished critic and essayist with an elegant style and a rare ability to communicate complex ideas to a wide public. This is the first collection of Williams's popular essays and reviews,...

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Autor principal: Williams, Bernard, 1929-2003
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Williams, Bernard > 1929-2003
Filosofi.
Rezension
Philosoph
Philosophy, English.
Philosophy, British.
Philosophie britannique > 20e siecle.
Philosophie anglaise > 20e siecle.
Philosophy, British > 20th century.
Philosophy, English > 20th century.
Storbritannien.
Electronic books.
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  • Plato Today, by R.H.S. Crossman, Spectator (1959)
  • English Philosophy since 1900, by G.J. Warnock, Philosophy (1959)
  • Thought and Action, by Stuart Hampshire, Encounter (1960)
  • The Theological Appearance of the Church of England: An External View, Prism (1960)
  • The Four Loves, by C.S. Lewis, Spectator (1960)
  • Discourse on Method, by Rene Descartes, translated by Arthur Wollaston, Spectator (1960)
  • The Individual Reason: L'esprit laïc, BBC Radio 3 talk, Listener (1961)
  • What Is Existentialism? BBC World Service talk broadcast in Vietnamese (1962)
  • Sketch for a Theory of the Emotions, by Jean-Paul Sartre, translated by Philip Mairet, Spectator (1962)
  • Sense and Sensibilia, by J.L. Austin, reconstructed by G.J. Warnock; Philosophical Papers, edited by J.O. Urmson and G.J. Warnock, Oxford Magazine (1962)
  • The Concept of a Person, by A.J. Ayer, New Statesman (1963)
  • Two Faces of Science, BBC Radio 3 talk in the series Personal View, Listener (1963)
  • The English Moralists, by Basil Willey, New York Review of Books (1965)
  • Universities: Protest, Reform and Revolution, Lecture in celebration of the foundation of Birkbeck College (1968)
  • Has 'God' a Meaning? Question (1968)
  • Russell and Moore: The Analytical Heritage, by A.J. Ayer (1971)
  • Immanuel Kant, by Lucien Goldmann, Cambridge Review (1972)
  • A Theory of Justice, by John Rawls, Spectator (1972)
  • Beyond Freedom and Dignity, by B.F. Skinner, Observer (1972)
  • What Computers Can't Do: A Critique of Artificial Reason, by Hubert L. Dreyfus, New York Review of Books(1973)
  • Wisdom: Twelve Essays, edited by Renford Bambrough, Times Literary Supplement (1974)
  • The Socialist Idea, edited by Stuart Hampshire and L. Kolakowski, Observer (1975)
  • Anarchy, State, and Utopia, by Robert Nozick, Political Philosophy (1975)
  • The Ethics of Fetal Research, by Paul Ramsey, Times LiterarySupplement (1975)
  • The Moral View of Politics, BBC Radio 3 talk in the series Current Trends in Philosophy, Listener (1976)
  • The Life of Bertrand Russell, by Ronald W. Clark; The Tamarisk Tree: My Quest for Liberty and Love, by Dora Russell; My Father Bertrand Russell, by Katharine Tait; Bertrand Russell, by A.J. Ayer, New York Review of Books (1976)
  • Reflections on Language, by Noam Chomsky; On Noam Chomsky: Critical Essays, edited by Gilbert Harman, New York Review of Books (1976)
  • The Selfish Gene, by Richard Dawkins, New Scientist (1976)
  • The Fire and the Sun: Why Plato Banished the Artists, by Iris Murdoch, New Statesman (1977)
  • The Logic of Abortion, BBC Radio 3 talk, Listener (1977)
  • On Thinking, by Gilbert Ryle, edited by Konstantin Kolenda, London Review of Books (1979)
  • Rubbish Theory, by Michael Thompson, London Review of Books (1980)
  • Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life, by Sissela Bok, Political Quarterly (1980)
  • Logic and Society and Ulysses and the Sirens, by Jon Elster, London Review of Books (1980)
  • The Culture of Narcissism, by Christopher Lasch; Nihilism and Culture, by Johan Goudsblom, London Review of Books (1980)
  • Religion and Public Doctrine in England, by Maurice Cowling, London Review of Books (1981)
  • Nietzsche on Tragedy, by M.S. Silk and J.P. Stern; Nietzsche: A Critical Life, by Ronald Hayman; Nietzsche, vol. 1, The Will to Power as Art, by Martin Heidegger, translated by David Farrell Krell, London Review of Books (1981).
  • After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory, by Alasdair MacIntyre, Sunday Times (1981)
  • Philosophical Explanations, by Robert Nozick, New York Review of Books (1982)
  • The Miracle of Theism: Arguments for and against the Existence of God, by J.L. Mackie, Times Literary Supplement (1983)
  • Offensive Literature: Decensorship in Britain, 1960-1982, by John Sutherland, London Review of Books (1983)
  • Consequences of Pragmatism (Essays 1972-1980), by Richard Rorty, New York Review of Books (1983)
  • The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell, vol. I, Cambridge Essays 1888-99, edited by Kenneth Blackwell and others, Observer (1984)
  • Reasons and Persons, by Derek Parfit, London Review of Books (1984)
  • Wickedness: A Philosophical Essay, by Mary Midgley, Observer (1984)
  • Secrets: On the Ethics of Concealment and Revelation, by Sissela Bok; The Secrets File: The Case for Freedom of Information in Britain Today, edited by Des Wilson, foreword by David Steel, London Review of Books (1984)
  • Choice and Consequence, by Thomas C. Schelling, Economics and Philosophy (1985)
  • Privacy: Studies in Social and Cultural History, by Barrington Moore, Jr., New York Review of Books (1985)
  • Ordinary Vices, by Judith Shklar; Immorality, by Ronald Milo, London Review of Books (1985)
  • The Right to Know: The Inside Story of the Belgrano Affair, by Clive Ponting; The Price of Freedom, by Judith Cook, Times Literary Supplement (1985)
  • Taking Sides: The Education of a Militant Mind, by Michael Harrington, New York Times Book Review(1986)
  • A Matter of Principle, by Ronald Dworkin (1986)
  • The View from Nowhere, by Thomas Nagel, London Review of Books (1986)
  • What Hope for the Humanities? Times Educational Supplement (1987) (edited version of the Raymond Priestley Lecture [1986])
  • The Society of Mind, by Marvin Minsky, New York Review of Books (1987)
  • Whose Justice? Which Rationality? by Alasdair MacIntyre, London Review of Books (1989)
  • Intellectuals, by Paul Johnson, New York Review of Books (1989)
  • Contingency, Irony and Solidarity, by Richard Rorty, London Review of Books (1989)
  • Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity, by Charles Taylor, New York Review of Books(1990)
  • The Need to Be Sceptical, Times Literary Supplement (1990)
  • The Saturated Self: Dilemmas of Identity in Contemporary Life, by Kenneth J. Gergen, New York Times Book Review (1991)
  • Realism with a Human Face, by Hilary Putnam, London Review of Books (1991)
  • Political Liberalism, by John Rawls, London Review of Books (1993)
  • Inequality Reexamined, by Amartya Sen, London Review of Books (1993)
  • The Therapy of Desire: Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics, by Martha Nussbaum, London Review of Books (1994)
  • Only Words, by Catharine MacKinnon, London Review of Books (1994)
  • The Limits of Interpretation, by Umberto Eco; Interpretation and Overinterpretation, by Umberto Eco, with Richard Rorty, Jonathan Culler, and Christine Brooke-Rose, edited by Stefan Collini; Six Walks in the Fictional Woods, by Umberto Eco; Apocalypse Postponed, by Umberto Eco, translated and edited by Robert Lumley;Misreadings, by Umberto Eco, translated by William Weaver; How to Travel with a Salmon & Other Essays, by Umberto Eco, translated by William Weaver, New York Review of Books (1995)
  • On Hating and Despising Philosophy, London Review of Books (1996)
  • The Last Word, by Thomas Nagel, New York Review of Books (1998)
  • Wagner and the Transcendence of Politics, New York Review of Books (2000)
  • Why Philosophy Needs History, London Review of Books (2002).

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