Williams, Sir Bernard (Arthur Owen)

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WILLIAMS, Sir Bernard (Arthur Owen)

WILLIAMS, Sir Bernard (Arthur Owen). British, b. 1929. Genres: Philosophy. Career: White Professor of Moral Philosophy, University of Oxford, since 1990. Fellow of New College, Oxford, 1954-59; Lecturer in Philosophy, University College, 1959-64, and Professor of Philosophy, Bedford College, 1964-67, University of London; Knightbridge Professor of Philosophy, Cambridge University, 1967-79; Fellow, 1967-79, and Provost, 1979-87, King's College, Cambridge; Professor of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley, 1988-90. Publications: (co-editor, with Montefiore) British Analytical Philosophy, 1966; Morality: An Introduction to Ethics, 1972; Problems of the Self, 1973; Utilitarianism: For and Against, 1973; Descartes, 1978; Moral Luck, 1981; (co-editor) Utilitarianism and Beyond, 1982; Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy, 1985; Shame and Necessity, 1993; Truth and Untruthfulness, 2002. Died 2003.

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