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András Szigeti and Matthew Talbert (eds.), Morality and Agency: Themes from Bernard Williams, Oxford University Press, 2022, 320pp., $97.00 (hbk), ISBN 9780197626566.
Reviewed by Matt King, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Morality and Agency: Themes from Bernard Williams brings together 12 rich and varied papers tackling—you guessed it—themes from the work of Bernard Williams. It originates from a workshop held by the Lund Gothenburg Responsibility Project at Lund University in 2019. The purpose of the book, the editors tell us, is to better understand Williams’s work with a focus on his “conceptual and methodological innovations” (2).
The contributors will be familiar to many, and the work, for the most part, is original and new (with the exception of one previously published chapter). The editors have arranged the essays into two equal groups. The first group is organized around elements of Williams’s exploration of what he called the ‘morality system’: that “system of modern moral practices. ….
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