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Philosophy as a Humanist Discipline:The Legacy of Isaiah Berlin, StuartHampshire, and Bernard Williams

Isaiah Berlin, Stuart Hampshire, and Bernard Williams

On June 22, 2013, at Wadham College, Oxford, The New York Review held a free

conference to celebrate its fiftieth anniversary and to honor the lives, work, and legacy

of Isaiah Berlin, Stuart Hampshire and Bernard Williams. Cosponsored by The New

York Review of Books Foundation, Fritt Ord, All Souls College, The Europaeum,

Wadham College, and Wolfson College, the conference included remarks by Avishai

Margalit, Alan Ryan, Mary Warnock, John Gray, Helena Kennedy, Mark Lilla, Naomi

Eilan, Edward Skidelsky, Jerome Bruner, Samuel Scheffler, Jeremy Waldron, Timothy

Garton Ash, and Marc Stears. The sessions were chaired by Robert Silvers, John

Vickers, Hermione Lee, and Ken Macdonald.

We are pleased to present the recorded proceedings of this event below. (Please note

that the audio quality varies considerably within each recording.)

Berlin, Hampshire, Williams and Their World

Robert Silvers (Chair), Avishai Margalit, Alan Ryan, Mary Warnock

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Hedgehogs and Foxes, The Philosopher as Public Intellectual

John Vickers (Chair), John Gray, Helena Kennedy QC, Mark Lilla

Plural Values and The History of Ethics

Hermione Lee (Chair), Naomi Eilan, Alan Ryan, Edward Skidelsky

Is Political Philosophy More Than a Branch of Ethics?

Ken Macdonald, QC (Chair), Jerome Bruner, Samuel Scheffler, Jeremy Waldron

Ethics and Power: The Long Shadow of Machiavelli

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Robert Silvers (Chair), Avishai Margalit, Timothy Garton Ash, Marc Stears

August 15, 2013, 2:03 p.m.

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