Abstract: There are two observed features of aesthetic judgment which seem distinctive from other kinds of judgment, especially scientific judgment. First, we often do not...
Lecture I: A Project of ‘Impure’ Enquiry—Descartes and Wittgenstein
Lecture II: ‘Philosophical Anthropology’—Hume and Nietzsche
One of the dominant themes in Bernard Williams’ philosophy, especially his ethical philosophy, is the importance of history. This idea makes repeated appearances throughout his oeuvre, and in a number of different guises: one is the importance to philosophy of having a sense of itself as a contingently shaped way of making sense of life; another is the importance of observing the limits of speculative thinking so that we can refrain from a...