Bernard Williams is Deutsch Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, and a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. His most recent book is Making Sense of Humanity. The article in this issue is a revised version of the Orr Lecture given in the Music Faculty of Cambridge University, May 2000. An earlier draft was given at the Nexus Institute, Tilburg, Holland. (November 2000)
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Wagner & Politics
May 31, 2001
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Wagner & Politics
November 2, 2000
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The End of Explanation?
November 19, 1998
The Last Word
by Thomas Nagel
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The Riddle of Umberto Eco
February 2, 1995
The Limits of Interpretation by Umberto Eco
Interpretation and Overinterpretation by Umberto Eco, by Richard Rorty, by Jonathan Culler, by Christine Brooke-Rose, edited by Stefan Collini
Six Walks in the Fictional Woods by Umberto Eco
Apocalypse Postponed by Umberto Eco, translated and edited by Robert Lumley
Misreadings by Umberto Eco, translated by William Weaver
How to Travel with a Salmon & Other Essays by Umberto Eco, translated by William Weaver
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The Detention of Sari Nussiebeh
March 7, 1991
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Republican and Galilean
November 8, 1990
Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity by Charles Taylor
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Amazement
September 28, 1989
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Bad Behavior
July 20, 1989
Intellectuals by Paul Johnson
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Leviathan’s Program
June 11, 1987
The Society of Mind by Marvin Minsky
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Private Faces and Public Places
April 25, 1985
Privacy: Studies in Social and Cultural History by Barrington Moore Jr.
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Auto-da-Fé
April 28, 1983
Consequences of Pragmatism (Essays 1972-1980) by Richard Rorty
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The Identity of Nozick
May 27, 1982
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Cosmic Philosopher
February 18, 1982
Philosophical Explanations by Robert Nozick
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Where Chomsky Stands
November 11, 1976
Reflections on Language by Noam Chomsky
On Noam Chomsky: Critical Essays edited by Gilbert Harman
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The Passions of Bertrand Russell
March 4, 1976
The Life of Bertrand Russell by Ronald W. Clark
The Tamarisk Tree: My Quest for Liberty and Love by Dora Russell
My Father Bertrand Russell by Katharine Tait
Bertrand Russell by A.J. Ayer
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An Exchange on Artificial Intelligence
June 27, 1974
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How Smart Are Computers?
November 15, 1973
What Computers Can’t Do: A Critique of Artificial Reason by Hubert L. Dreyfus
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Willey Thinking
March 11, 1965
The English Moralists by Basil Willey