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Author Description Sir Bernard Arthur Owen Williams was an English moral philosopher. His publications include Problems of the Self (1973), Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy (1985), Shame and Necessity (1993), and Truth and Truthfulness (2002). He was knighted in 1999.<br />As Knightbridge Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge and Deutsch Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, Williams became known for his efforts to reorient the study of moral philosophy to psychology, history, and in particular to the Greeks. Described by <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/12834._Colin_McGinn" title=" Colin McGinn" rel="nofollow noopener"> Colin McGinn</a> as an "analytical philosopher with the soul of a general humanist," he was sceptical about attempts to create a foundation for moral philosophy. <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/20757._Martha_Nussbaum" title=" Martha Nussbaum" rel="nofollow noopener"> Martha Nussbaum</a> wrote that he demanded of philosophy that it "come to terms with, and contain, the difficulty and complexity of human life."<br />Williams was a strong supporter of women in academia; according to Nussbaum, he was "as close to being a feminist as a powerful man of his generation could be." He was also famously sharp in conversation. <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/371456._Gilbert_Ryle" title=" Gilbert Ryle" rel="nofollow noopener"> Gilbert Ryle</a>, one of Williams's mentors at Oxford, said that he "understands what you're going to say better than you understand it yourself, and sees all the possible objections to it, and all the possible answers to all the possible objections, before you've got to the end of your own sentence."

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