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Title: Truth and Truthfulness : An Essay in Genealogy by Bernard Williams ISBN: 0-691-10276-7 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 05 August, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.75 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: An important work
Comment: I found Williams' treatment of truth to be an important contribution. I thought well enough of it that I'm coming our of retirement to do a graduate course on the book in the Fall. Non-philosophers will find it tough going, but well worth the effort. I think this is an important book and everyone I've recommended it to has agreed with that judgment.
Rating: 4
Summary: Enough Anti-Rorty Polemics
Comment: Richard Rorty is set up as the strawman in this book and this is unfortunate. Apart from this the book is an interesting read that Rorty would have little problem with. Indeed this is the case (see Rorty's review of the book).
I think Williams in this book is saying much the same thing as Dan Dennett and is on the same critical wave length with Dan in his criticism's of Rorty. Which seem to me to be quite "Rortyian" in style i.e the critiques are politically motivated.
From a meta-philosophical perspective I believe there is little "practical" difference between Rorty, Williams and Dennett - not to mention Putnam (see his new book).
Therefore as a political (and hence usefull or something we should care about) work this is a good book.
The most interesting move in this book is the use of Nietzsche.
Very Rortyian indeed.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Wonderful Intelligent Study, Although Slightly Wayward
Comment: Williams is one of the wisest and more learned of philosophers working in English, a man of capacious intelligence and brilliant insight, and a man gracious enough to have learned how to write lucid, enjoyable prose. I share Michael Colson's enthusiasm, although I share none of his worries or dislikes. His "Enemies List" is not mine. And I think it should not be Williams's. I remain unpersuaded that the account of what we mean by true discourse given by the bogeymen of postmodernity amounts to a denial that anything's true or that in matters of the mind "anything goes." Williams is on the right track but turns off a little too soon--in what amounts to a failure of attentiveness. But the second part of the book easily compensates for the occasional disappointments of the first part. One can feel he is not entirely fair to some of his philosophical contemporaries, and still feel a great deal of gratitude for the pleasure of his company.
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Title: Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy by Bernard Williams ISBN: 067426858X Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: March, 1986 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Concealment and Exposure: And Other Essays by Thomas Nagel ISBN: 019515293X Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
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Title: Shame and Necessity (Sather Classical Lectures, Vol 57) by Bernard Williams ISBN: 0520088301 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: October, 1994 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Evil in Modern Thought : An Alternative History of Philosophy by Susan Neiman ISBN: 0691096082 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 01 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Subjective, Intersubjective, Objective by Donald Davidson ISBN: 0198237537 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: January, 2002 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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