Bernard Williams

In the LRB Archive:

• Why Philosophy Needs History: On Truth · 17 October 2002

• On Hating and Despising Philosophy · 18 April 1996

• Do not disturb · 20 October 1994

  • The Therapy of Desire: Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics by Martha Nussbaum

• Drawing lines · 12 May 1994

  • Only Words by Catharine MacKinnon

• Freer than others · 18 November 1993

  • Inequality Examined by Amartya Sen

• A Fair State · 13 May 1993

  • Political Liberalism by John Rawls

• Saint-Just’s Illusion – Interpretation and the Powers of Philosophy · 29 August 1991

• Terrestrial Thoughts, Extraterrestrial Science · 7 February 1991

  • Realism with a Human Face by Hilary Putnam

• Getting it right · 23 November 1989

  • Contingency, Irony and Solidarity by Richard Rorty

• Modernity · 5 January 1989

  • Whose justice? Which rationality? by Alasdair MacIntyre

• A Passion for the Beyond · 7 August 1986

  • The View from Nowhere by Thomas Nagel

• Consequences · 17 April 1986

  • A Matter of Principle by Ronald Dworkin

• Resisting the avalanche · 6 June 1985

  • Ordinary Vices by Judith Shklar
  • Immorality by Ronald Milo

• Letting it get out · 18 October 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

• Personal Identity · 7 June 1984

  • Reasons and Persons by Derek Parfit

• Pornography and Feminism · 17 March 1983

• Nietzsche’s Centaur · 4 June 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

• How shall we sing the Lord’s song? · 2 April 1981

  • Religion and Public Doctrine in England by Maurice Cowling

• Modern Discontent · 17 July 1980

  • The Culture of Narcissism by Christopher Lasch
  • Nihilism and Culture by Johan Goudsblom

• Jon Elster’s Brisk Meditations · 1 May 1980

  • Logic and Society by Jon Elster
  • Ulysses and the Sirens by Jon Elster

• Knocking Through · 6 March 1980

  • Rubbish Theory by Michael Thompson

• Ryle Remembered · 22 November 1979

  • On Thinking by Gilbert Ryle, edited by Konstantin Kolenda

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