Making Sense of Humanity

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And Other Philosophical Papers 1982 1993

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Hardcover | 4 September 1995

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This new volume of philosophical papers by Bernard Williams is divided into three sections: the first Action, Freedom, Responsibility, the second Philosophy, Evolution and the Human Sciences; in which appears the essay which gives the collection its title; and the third Ethics, which contains essays closely related to his 1983 book Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy. Like the two earlier volumes of Williams's papers published by Cambridge University Press, Problems of the Self and Moral Luck, this volume will be welcomed by all readers with a serious interest in philosophy. It is published alongside a volume of essays on Williams's work, World, Mind, and Ethics: Essays on the Ethical Philosophy of Bernard Williams, edited by J. E. J. Altham and Ross Harrison, which provides a reappraisal of his work by other distinguished thinkers in the field.

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'A treat: civilised, sharp discussions of serious issues, spiked with asides which are deep, funny and sometimes both' Onora O'Neill, Times Higher Education Supplement 'In Making Sense of Humanity, Williams takes his scapel and sets about slicing morality's jugular: free will, blame, moral responsibility, the ability of everone to do the right thing, and the possibility of a theoretical justification for being good. His attack seems to me to be alarmingly convincing.' Spectator

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Preface	p. xi
Action, freedom, responsibility
How free does the will need to be?	p. 3
Voluntary acts and responsible agents	p. 22
Internal reasons and the obscurity of blame	p. 35
Moral incapacity	p. 46
Acts and omissions, doing and not doing	p. 56
Nietzsche's minimalist moral psychology	p. 65
Philosophy, evolution, and the human sciences
Making sense of humanity	p. 79
Evolutionary theory and epistemology	p. 90
Evolution, ethics, and the representation problem	p. 100
Formal structures and social reality	p. 111
Formal and substantial individualism	p. 123
Saint-Just's illusion	p. 135
Ethics
The point of view of the universe: Sidgwick and the ambitions of ethics	p. 153
Ethics and the fabric of the world	p. 172
What does intuitionism imply?	p. 182
Professional morality and its dispositions	p. 192
Who needs ethical knowledge?	p. 203
Which slopes are slippery?	p. 213
Resenting one's own existence	p. 224
Must a concern for the environment be centred on human beings?	p. 233
Moral luck: a postscript	p. 241
Index	p. 248
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