Philosophy as a Humanistic Discipline ：Philosophy as a Humanistic Discipline

Publication subTitle ：Philosophy as a Humanistic Discipline

Author： Williams Bernard;Moore A. W.;;  

Publisher： Princeton University Press‎

Publication year： 2009

E-ISBN: 9781400827091

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780691124261

Subject： B0 Philosophical Theory

Keyword： 哲学、宗教

Language： ENG

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What can--and what can't--philosophy do? What are its ethical risks--and its possible rewards? How does it differ from science? In Philosophy as a Humanistic Discipline, Bernard Williams addresses these questions and presents a striking vision of philosophy as fundamentally different from science in its aims and methods even though there is still in philosophy "something that counts as getting it right." Written with his distinctive combination of rigor, imagination, depth, and humanism, the book amply demonstrates why Williams was one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century.

Spanning his career from his first publication to one of his last lectures, the book's previously unpublished or uncollected essays address metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics, as well as the scope and limits of philosophy itself. The essays are unified by Williams's constant concern that philosophy maintain contact with the human problems that animate it in the first place. As the book's editor, A. W. Moore, writes in his introduction, the title essay is "a kind of manifesto for Williams's conception of his own life's work." It is where he most directly asks "what philosophy can and cannot contribute to the project of making sense of things"--answering that what philosophy can best help make sense of is "being human."

Philosophy as a Humanistic Discipline is one of three posthumous books by Williams to be published by Prince

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Contents

Preface

Introduction

PART ONE: Metaphysics and Epistemology

ONE: Tertullian’s Paradox (1955)

TWO: Metaphysical Arguments (1957)

THREE: Pleasure and Belief (1959)

FOUR: Knowledge and Reasons (1972)

FIVE: Identity and Identities (1995)

PART TWO: Ethics

SIX: The Primacy of Dispositions (1987)

SEVEN: The Structure of Hare’s Theory (1988)

EIGHT: Subjectivism and Toleration (1992)

NINE: The Actus Reus of Dr. Caligari (1994)

TEN: Values, Reasons, and the Theory of Persuasion (1996)

ELEVEN: Moral Responsibility and Political Freedom (1997)

TWELVE: Tolerating the Intolerable (1999)

THIRTEEN: The Human Prejudice (unpublished)

PART THREE: The Scope and Limits of Philosophy

FOURTEEN: Political Philosophy and the Analytical Tradition (1980)

FIFTEEN: Philosophy and the Understanding of Ignorance (1995)

SIXTEEN: Philosophy as a Humanistic Discipline (2000)

SEVENTEEN: What Might Philosophy Become? (unpublished)

Bernard Williams: Complete Philosophical Publications

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