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Title:
Essays and reviews, 1959-2002 / Bernard Williams ; foreword by Michael Wood.
Author:
Williams, Bernard, 1929-2003.
Publication Information:
Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2014.
Call Number:
B1674 .W49451 2014
ISBN:
9780691159850
Physical Description:
xvii, 435 pages ; 24 cm
Contents:
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 René 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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