| Bernard Williams AKA Bernard Arthur Owen Williams Born: 21-Sep-1929
Birthplace: Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, England
Died: 10-Jun-2003
Location of death: Rome, Italy
Cause of death: Multiple myeloma
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Philosopher Nationality: England
Executive summary: Leading moral philosopher Military service: RAF Wife: Shirley Brittain-Catlin (Labour MP, m. 1955, div. 1974, one daughter)
Daughter: Rebecca
Mistress: Patricia Law Skinner (extramarital affair)
Wife: Patricia (until his death, two sons)
Son: Jacob
Son: Jonathan
High School: Chigwell School, Chigwell, Essex
University: Balliol College, Oxford University (1951)
Professor: University College London (1959-64)
Professor: Bedford College, University of London
Professor: Philosophy, Cambridge University (1967-79)
Administrator: Provost, King's College London (1979-87)
Professor: University of California at Berkeley (1988-)
Professor: Moral Philosophy, Oxford University
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
British Academy
English National Opera Board of Directors
Knighthood 1999
Author of books:
Morality: An Introduction to Ethics (1972)
Problems of the Self (1973)
Utilitarianism: For and Against (1973, with J. J. C. Smart)
Descartes: The Project of Pure Inquiry (1978)
Moral Luck: Philosophical Papers, 1973-1980 (1981)
Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy (1985)
Shame and Necessity (1993)
Making Sense of Humanity (1995)
Truth and Truthfulness: An Essay in Genealogy (2002)
In the Beginning Was the Deed: Realism and Moralism in Political Argument (2005)
Philosophy as a Humanistic Discipline (2006)
The Sense of The Past: Essays in the Philosophy Of History (2006)
On Opera (2006)
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