Bernard Williams

Preface Patricia WilliamsIt is sad, but appropriate, that my final, practical gesture of appreciation and love for Bernard should be to help with the publication of the last three collections of his philosophical writings. The Sense of the Past: Essays in the History of Philosophy, Philosophy as a...

Chapter 1_Practical Reasoning: The Current State of PlayElijah MillgramPractical reasoning is reasoning directed towards action: figuring out what to do, as contrasted with figuring out how the facts stand. The study of practical reasoning has been a rapidly changing area, in which the...

PREFACEThis is a study in the history of philosophy rather than in the history of ideas. I use those labels to mark the distinction that the history of ideas is history before it is philosophy, while with the history of philosophy it is the other way round. In any worthwhile work of either sort,...