Morality and Agency
Themes from Bernard Williams
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 4 October 2022
- ISBN 9780197626566
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages336 pages
- Size 162x242x26 mm
- Weight 581 g
- Language English 401
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Short description:
Bernard Williams (1929-2003), one of the great philosophers of the latter half of the 20th century, continues to exert a profound influence on contemporary ethical theory. This edited volume brings together new articles from prominent scholars that focus on the innovative ideas and methods that Williams developed as part of his distinctive "outlook" in ethics. The volume provides a fresh, up to date portrait of Williams's philosophy as a fully-fledged alternative approach in ethics.
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Bernard Williams (1929-2003) was one of the great philosophical figures of the second half of the 20th century and remains deeply influential. This edited volume brings together new articles from prominent scholars that focus on the innovative ideas and methods that Williams developed as part of his distinctive "outlook" in ethics.
The chapters in the first section examine Williams's attempts to explore theoretical options beyond the confines of what he called the "morality system." The contributors 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 second section, contributors explore 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 contributor 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.
With a cast of well known contributors, and an introduction by the editors placing Williams's work in broad context, this volume should appeal to a wide range of ethicists and moral philosophers.
Table of Contents:
Introduction by András Szigeti and Matthew Talbert
Part I: The Morality System and its Discontents
Chapter 1. Bernard Williams's Debt to Nietzsche: Real or Illusory?
Brian Leiter
Chapter 2. Virtue, Luck and Other Goods: On Williams's Question and the Demandingness of Ancient Ethics
Marcel van Ackeren
Chapter 3. Shame and the Ethical in Williams
Stephen Bero and Aness Webster
Chapter Stephen Darwall
Chapter 5. Confidence: On the Possibility of Ethical Knowledge
Agata Lukomska
Chapter 6. Moral Realism with a Human Face: Objectivity in Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy
Gideon Rosen
Part II: Agency, Blame, and Luck
Chapter 7. Free Will and the Tragic Predicament: Making Sense of Williams
Paul Russell
Chapter 8. A Shelter from Luck: The Morality System Reconstructed
Matthieu Queloz
Chapter 9. Luck and Responsibility According to Bernard Williams
Ulrike Heuer
Chapter 10. Relation-Regret and Associative Luck: On Rationally Regretting What Another Has Done
Daniel Telech
Chapter 11. Bernard Williams as a Philosopher of Ethical Freedom
Miranda Fricker
Chapter 12. Blame without Reasons
Geraldine Ng
