Bernard Williams

Bernard Williams's books include Truth and Truthfulness (Princeton); Making Sense of Humanity; Morality; and Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy. At the time of his death in 2003, he was Fellow of All Souls College, University of Oxford. Geoffrey Hawthorn is Professor of International Politics at the University of Cambridge. Bernard Williams is remembered as one of the most brilliant and original philosophers of the past fifty years. Widely respected...

"One of Flavorwire's 10 Best Books by Academic Publishers in 2014" Bernard Williams held Chairs of Moral Philosophy at Cambridge, Berkeley, and Oxford. He died in 2003. The first collection of popular reviews and essays from distinguished philosopher Bernard Williams Bernard Williams was one of the most important philosophers of the past fifty years, but he was also a distinguished critic and essayist with an elegant style and a rare ability to...

Bernard Williams was Knightbridge Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge (1967-1979) and Provost of King's College. He held the Monroe Deutsch Professorship of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley (1998-2000) and was White's Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Oxford (1990-2003). He was Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford until his death in 2003. Myles Burnyeat is Senior Research Fellow in Philosophy,...

I marched with the Eight Army An excerpt from comments made by Winston Churchill at Tripoli on 5 Feb, 1943. I must tell you that your fame, the fame of the desert army, has spread throughout the world. After Tobruk surrendered there were very dark hours, and many people who do not know about us were ready to take a discouraging view. But the events you have achieved have put the British Army on the map and won the admiration of all the troops now...

Two con men, one a suave and sophisticated Englishman and the other a bumbling but appealing American, compete to see who can extract $50,000 from a naive soap heiress first. The winner can keep the Riviera and its unsuspecting tourists to himself.

Competing con artists cross paths in the south of France and soon realize the Riviera isn't big enough for the both of them. They agree to a loser-leaves-town wager over the fortunes of a naive American soap heiress, which leads to a hilarious battle of wits that will decide who is the greatest scoundrel of all!