"The book should immediately become a staple in the library of
anyone with an interest in contemporary English-language
philosophy. The collection contains many excellent essays that have
been hard to locate for a while, or which have not been previously
published. The title essay, 'Philosophy as a Humanistic Discipline,
' is a rich and remarkable essay, and this is a splendid
collection."--Richard Moran, Professor of Philosophy, Harvard
University, author of "Authority and Estrangement" (Princeton)
"Bernard Williams brought human life into philosophy, and so
into the philosophy of all of us. No one outdid him in his mastery
of those abstract complexities without which no real philosophy is
possible. But through all the intricate reasonings his eye was
always on what counts most: making the best sense of the lives of
human beings."--Barry Stroud, University of California at
Berkeley
"Williams was one of the most important philosophers of the late
twentieth century, who managed to combine an extraordinary
philosophical command with an equally impressive gift for keeping
in touch with the deepest issues of human life. These essays take
up questions about practical reason, the will to believe, and the
relation between belief and other mental states, whose modern
discussion was transformed by the power and originality of his
contributions. Central to all his work is a resistance to what
might be called the scientism of much analytical philosophy,
something that Williams always stood against in the spheres of
ethics and politics."--Kwame Anthony Appiah, Laurance S.
Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy, Princeton
University, and author of "The Ethics of Identity" (Princeton)
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