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Christopher Cordner

Christopher Cordner retired from teaching in 2021 after more than three decades in the Philosophy department at the University of Melbourne, where he was an Associate Professor. He published widely on ethics, including its classical Greek and Christian tributaries, and its relationship to art and aesthetics.

Christopher Cordner reviews 'Philosophy as a Humanistic Discipline' and 'The Sense of the Past: Essays in the history of philosophy' by Bernard Williams

February 2007, no. 288 01 February 2007
Bernard Williams began his philosophical life as the enfant terrible of mainstream English philosophy. In 2003 he died its most eminent contemporary figure. Williams was White’s Professor of Moral Philosophy at Oxford from 1990 to 1996, and a professor at Berkeley from 1988 until his death. Both these books are collections of essays, nearly all published previously, but many not easily accessibl ... (read more)