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  title info:
    title: Morality and agency
    sub title: themes from Bernard Williams
  name:
    name part: Szigeti, András
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Talbert, Matthew
    role:
      role term: editor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2022
    copyright date: 2022
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (x, 320 pages).
  abstract: "Bernard Williams (1929-2003) was one of the great philosophical figures of the second half of the twentieth century. This collection, devoted to Williams's ethical thought, is divided into two sections. The papers in the first section deal with Williams's attempts to explore theoretical options beyond the confines of what he called the "morality system." These papers show how, through a critical confrontation with this system, Williams found new ways to think about moral obligation, morally relevant emotions such as shame, the relevance of the history of philosophy, and also how these new ways of thinking are linked to Williams's novel metaethical ideas concerning the possibility and limits of moral knowledge. In the book's second section, readers will find papers related to Williams's discussions of freedom and responsibility, the role of luck in our moral lives, and the reasons that agents can be said to have. Williams's concerns about the morality system still loom large here. For example, Williams was skeptical about the prospects of putting our responsibility practices, and the conception of free will with which they are associated, on a firm footing. But as more than one author shows, Williams's skepticism is largely confined to conceptions of free will and responsibility that are conditioned by the morality system's uneasiness with luck. Williams has a more vindicatory story to tell about the prospects for freedom and responsibility once these concepts have been untethered from the assumptions of this system"--
  table of contents: Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Introduction -- AndraÌ#x81;s Szigeti and Matthew Talbert -- Part IThe Morality System and Its DisContents: 1. Bernard Williams's Debt to Nietzsche: Real or Illusory? -- Brian Leiter -- 2. Virtue, Luck, and Other Goods: On Williams's Question and the Demandingness of Ancient Ethics -- Marcel van Ackeren -- 3. Shame and the Ethical in Williams -- Stephen Bero and Aness Kim Webster -- 4. Williams, Kant, and Morality's "Peculiarity" -- Stephen Darwall -- 5. Confidence: On the Possibility of Ethical Knowledge -- Agata Å#x81;ukomska -- 6. Moral Realism with a Human Face: Objectivity in Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy -- Gideon Rosen -- Part IIAgency, Blame, and Luck -- 7. Free Will and the Tragic Predicament: Making Sense of Williams -- Paul Russell -- 8. A Shelter from Luck: The Morality System Reconstructed -- Matthieu Queloz -- 9. Luck and Responsibility According to Bernard Williams -- Ulrike Heuer -- 10. Relation-Regret and Associative Luck: On Rationally Regretting What Another Has Done -- Daniel Telech -- 11. Bernard Williams as a Philosopher of Ethical Freedom -- Miranda Fricker -- 12. Blame Without Reasons -- Geraldine Ng -- Index
  note: edited by András Szigeti, Matthew Talbert.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Williams, Bernard
      name part: 1929-2003
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Williams, Bernard
      name part: 1929-2003
  subject:
    topic: Ethics
  subject:
    topic: Agent (Philosophy)
  subject:
    topic: Morale
  subject:
    topic: ethics (philosophy)
  subject:
    topic: Epistemology
  subject:
    topic: PHILOSOPHY
  subject:
    topic: Ethics & Moral Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Agent (Philosophy)
  subject:
    topic: Ethics
  classification: BJ604.W553 M67 2022
  classification: BJ604.W55 M67 2022
  classification: 170.92
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Morality and agency
    origin info:
      publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2022]
    identifier: (DLC) 2022936410
    identifier: (OCoLC)1304244006
  identifier: 9780197626573
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  identifier: 0197626564
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  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 220822
    record change date: 20260318163319.6
    record identifier: in00005696049
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng