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Bernard Williams (1929–2003) was Deutsch Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, and a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. His books include *Problems of the Self*, *Moral Luck*, *Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy*, and *Truth and Truthfulness*.
The Riddle of Umberto Eco
The Limits of Interpretation
by Umberto Eco
Interpretation and Overinterpretation
by Umberto Eco and Richard Rorty and Jonathan Culler and 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
February 2, 1995 issue
Republican and Galilean
Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity
by Charles Taylor
November 8, 1990 issue
Private Faces and Public Places
Privacy: Studies in Social and Cultural History
by Barrington Moore Jr.
April 25, 1985 issue
Where Chomsky Stands
Reflections on Language
by Noam Chomsky
On Noam Chomsky: Critical Essays
edited by Gilbert Harman
November 11, 1976 issue
The Passions of Bertrand Russell
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
March 4, 1976 issue
How Smart Are Computers?
“Artificial Intelligence has gone through a sober process of realizing that human beings are cleverer than it supposed. It has turned to a more cautious and diversified strategy of accumulating ‘know-how’ rather than mounting frontal assaults.”
What Computers Can't Do: A Critique of Artificial Reason
by Hubert L. Dreyfus
November 15, 1973 issue
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