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X-WR-CALNAME;VALUE=TEXT:[UPDATED LOCATION] Whitehead Lectures: Miranda Fricker (New York University), "Bernard Williams’ Historical Self-Consciousness"
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SUMMARY:[UPDATED LOCATION] Whitehead Lectures: Miranda Fricker (New York University), "Bernard Williams’ Historical Self-Consciousness"
DESCRIPTION:<drupal-media data-entity-type="media" data-entity-uuid="c4b72b05-7eae-4e39-8c5a-23ead6400398">&nbsp;</drupal-media><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Lecture I: A Project of ‘Impure’ Enquiry—Descartes and Wittgenstein</p><p>Lecture II: ‘Philosophical Anthropology’—Hume and Nietzsche</p><p><strong>Abstract:&nbsp;</strong>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 <em>a prioristic</em> 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.</p>
LOCATION:Sackler Lecture Room 004 (Sackler Building, 485 Broadway)
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