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Sir Bernard Arthur Owen Williams, FBA (21 September 1929 – 10 June 2003) was an English moral philosopher. His publications include Problems of the Self (1973), Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy (1985), Shame and Necessity (1993), and Truth and Truthfulness (2002).
Feb 1, 2006 · Bernard Williams (1929–2003) was a leading influence in philosophical ethics in the latter half of the twentieth century. He rejected the codification of ethics into moral theories that views such as Kantianism and (above all) utilitarianism see as essential to philosophical thinking about ethics, arguing that our ethical life is too untidy ...
Jun 6, 2024 · Bernard Williams (born September 21, 1929, Westcliff, Essex, England—died June 10, 2003, Rome, Italy) was an English philosopher, noted especially for his writings on ethics and the history of Western philosophy, both ancient and modern.
Bernard Williams, in full Sir Bernard Arthur Owen Williams, (born Sept. 21, 1929, Westcliff, Essex, Eng.—died June 10, 2003, Rome, Italy), English philosopher. He studied at the University of Oxford and served in the Royal Air Force (1951–53).
Jun 6, 2024 · Bernard Williams - Morality, Objectivity, Philosophy: Some philosophers, in the tradition of David Hume (1711–76), have denied that there can be objective truth in ethics on the ground that this would have to mean, very implausibly, that moral propositions are true because they represent moral entities or structures that are part of the ...
Jun 10, 2003 · Bernard Arthur Owen Williams (September 21, 1929 – June 10, 2003) was a British philosopher, widely cited as the most important British moral philosopher of his time. He was Knightbridge Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge for over a decade, and Provost of King's College, Cambridge for almost as long, before becoming ...
Oct 27, 2016 · For half a century, the English philosopher Bernard Williams (b. 1929–d. 2003) was a distinctive and individual voice in Anglophone philosophy. He made major original contributions to the history of philosophy, epistemology, the philosophy of personal identity, and ethics.
Jun 14, 2003 · June 14, 2003. Sir Bernard Williams, the lightning-witted Oxford professor who is credited with reviving the field of moral philosophy and was considered by some to be the greatest British...
Bernard Arthur Owen Williams (1929–2003) was an English philosopher born in Essex. Educated at Oxford, Williams went on to become a leading figure in twentieth-century philosophy, influencing the fields of moral philosophy, personal identity and the self, moral psychology, and political theories of equality.
Professor Sir Bernard Williams was one of the greatest twentieth-century British philosophers, renowned especially for his work in moral philosophy. He was born on 21 September 1929.
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