What’s in this issue
Five commissioned essays offer a rich and varied response to the main themes in a piece published 25 years ago, Bernard Williams’s ‘Philosophy as a Humanistic Discipline’ (available to read for free as one of the 100 Papers That Shaped Our Thinking). In the remaining three essays, Williams’s themes serve as inspiration to bring out illuminating connections with other thinkers and disciplines.
In the introduction to this special centenary issue, our editors write:
The vertiginous technological, social and political changes we are witnessing necessitate directing our gaze to the future, in an effort to identify, understand and address the challenges they bring. Williams’s paper, and the diverse reflections on its themes from our contributors, remind us of the importance of also looking at our past, and of the role that philosophy – the passionate, intelligent and reflective enquiry in which we all have an interest – can and must play in giving us a deeper understanding of where we are, as well as clearsighted hope.
Here’s a full list of the articles in this issue:
- Editorial: Centenary Issue, by Maria Alvarez, Bill Brewer, Sarah Fine
- Living with History, Learning from Youth, by Francey Russell
- The Myth of Self-Interest, by Kieran Setiya
- Making Sense of Ourselves: Bernard Williams on Philosophy as a Humanistic Discipline, by John Skorupski
- Whistling a Thin Tune: Williams, Wittgenstein and Genealogical Anxiety, by Amia Srinivasan
- Philosophy at the End of our Outlook, by Vida Yao
- Bernard Williams and Richard Wollheim: Silent Interlocution, by Louise Braddock
- A Humanistic Approach to the Two Images, by Alex Murphy
- Williams, Dewey, and the Nature of Value Inquiry, by James Wilson
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