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Bernard Williams
Researcher at University of Oxford
Publications - 126
Citations - 15851
Bernard Williams is an academic researcher from University of Oxford. The author has contributed to research in topics: Morality & Moral psychology. The author has an hindex of 37, co-authored 124 publications receiving 15523 citations. Previous affiliations of Bernard Williams include Keele University & University of Cambridge.
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Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy
TL;DR: The Routledge Classics Edition Preface 1. Socrates' Question 2.The Archimedian Point 3. Foundations: Well-Being 4. Style of Ethical Theory 5. Theory and Prejudice 7. The Linguistic Turn 8. Knowledge, Science, Convergence 9. Relativism and Reflection as mentioned in this paper.
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Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy
Alan Gewirth,Bernard Williams +1 more
TL;DR: The Routledge Classics Edition Preface 1. Socrates' Question 2.The Archimedian Point 3. Foundations: Well-Being 4. Style of Ethical Theory 5. Theory and Prejudice 7. The Linguistic Turn 8. Knowledge, Science, Convergence 9. Relativism and Reflection as discussed by the authors.
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Shame and Necessity
Norman Austin,Bernard Williams +1 more
TL;DR: The authors argues that we are more like the ancients than we are prepared to acknowledge, and only when this is understood can we properly grasp our most important differences from them, such as our rejection of slavery.
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Utilitarianism: For and Against
J. J. C. Smart,Bernard Williams +1 more
TL;DR: Two essays on utilitarianism, written from opposite points of view, by J. C. Smart and Bernard Williams as mentioned in this paper, argue that the rightness and wrongness of actions is determined solely by their consequences, and in particular their consequences for the sum total of human happiness.
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Utilitarianism and Beyond
Amartya Sen,Bernard Williams +1 more
TL;DR: The economic uses of utilitarianism J. A. Harsanyi and T. M. Scanlon as discussed by the authors have discussed the relationship between contractualism and utilitarianism in the context of economics.