#  \[UPDATED LOCATION\] Whitehead Lectures: Miranda Fricker (New York University), "Bernard Williams’ Historical Self-Consciousness" 

 



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 **April 25 - April 26, 2024** 

 03:00PM - 05:00PM EDT 

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 **Sackler Lecture Room 004 (Sackler Building, 485 Broadway)**  



 

 



 

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Lecture I: A Project of ‘Impure’ Enquiry—Descartes and Wittgenstein

Lecture II: ‘Philosophical Anthropology’—Hume and Nietzsche

**Abstract:** 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 prioristic* over-reach; and another is the importance of the History of Philosophy itself as a means to philosophy’s maintaining an instructive dialogue with its own past. In accordance with this historicist dialogical spirit, these lectures will trace a profile of Williams by observing the detailed impressions left on his writing by his engagement with, first, Descartes and Wittgenstein, and then Hume and Nietzsche.



 

 



 

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