New Essay: The Fact of the Matter: After Bernard Williams –
Truthfulness, Facts, and the Myth of Immediacy
📝https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18133958
#essay #philosophy #truth #law #epistemology #facts #zenodo #bernardwilliams #truth #science #communication #language #perception #metaphysics #mediation #objectivity #evidence #jurisprudence #AntiEnlightenment
#bernardwilliams
“It is hard to find a #philosopher who writes well. One can list the good stylists on one hand: #BernardWilliams, for the clear frankness of his prose; #StanleyCavell, whose writing self-reflectively folds in on itself like origami; Friedrich #Nietzsche …” aeon.co/essays/how-d...
How David Hume split literatur...
#17Febrero fotografia de mi amiga Llum del #amanecer en #Malvarrosa #Valencia, con esa paz que transmite el vaivén de las olas 😍 y esa magia del sol reflejándose en el mar y en la arena mojada "Nunca hubo una noche o un problema que pudiera vencer al amanecer o la esperanza" #BernardWilliams
#29Enero "Nunca hubo una noche o un problema que pudiera vencer al #amanecer o la #esperanza" #BernardWilliams Momentos únicos en #Barcelona a las: 7:44h 7:47h 7:52h 8:02h Tres meses han pasado 😥 #ValenciaNoSeOlvida #ValenciaIndignada #MazónDimisión
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My own feeling is that Parfit's systematic point-of-view-of- the-universe approach is a bad way to think about value and lives worth living and has consequently not been an entirely benign influence on our thinking about ethics.
"Reasons and Persons" was published in 1984, but I would choose the 1985 "Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy" as a key work to read when thinking in general terms about how one should live.
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674268586
#Philosophy #MoralPhilosophy #DerekParfit #BernardWilliams #ReasonsAndPersons #EthicsAndTheLimitsOfPhilosophy
🧵 1/5 I was struck by the paragraph on Parfit and Bernard Williams; I'm not sure whether this should the seed for a work of intellectual history or of a novel, but I do know that I would devour either!
Imperfect Parfit - The Philosophers' Magazine
If you want to understand why the thought of Bernard Williams matters for our thinking about ethics, this paper by Miranda Fricker could be a good place to start.
bernard_williams_as_a_philosopher_of_ethical_freedom.pdf
#Philosophy #BernardWilliams #MirandaFricker #Ethics #EthicalPhilosophy
We grow a little every time we do not take advantage of somebody's weakness.
-- Bernard Williams
The British philosopher Bernard Williams died just over twenty years ago, but his work continues to challenge and stimulate. His 1985 "Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy" is not only a major work within moral philosophy but also a book that can and should be read by anybody inclined to reflect on human values.
My new article on political obligation is out: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10677-023-10372-6
It's a realist membership account. It argues that PO is not a generic obligation: its normative force does not spring from a general moral principle but the special form of passing the minimal normative threshold for genuinely political rule (as opposed to sheer coercion or domination). What is so special about it? 2 things.
#politicaltheory #politicalphilosophy #obligation #politicalobligation #bernardwilliams #realism
Bernard Williams - SEP substantive revision by Sophie-Grace Chappel and Nicholas Smyth
Rather than baking stuff, does #ElonMusk routinely introduce himself to new neighbours by reassuring them that he has no current plans to murder them. (Adapted from a passage in #BernardWilliams, #TruthAndTruthfulness.)
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