Morality and agency : themes from Bernard Williams /
"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 theoreti...
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2022]
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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