A.M.吉布斯是悉尼麦考瑞大学的英语荣誉教授，同时也是澳大利亚人文学院的一名成员。他先后毕业于墨尔本大学和牛津大学，是罗氏研究生奖学金的获得者，以及莫德林学院的成员之一。他在斯特林和利兹的阿德莱德大学担任讲师，接着又在新南威尔士的纽卡斯尔大学，以及后来的麦考瑞大学担任教授。他是世界上首屈一指的萧伯纳权威，他发表了诸多关于萧伯纳的书籍和文章，并且是国际萧伯纳社团协会的创始人之一。他出版的主要作品包括：《威廉•达文南特爵士：短诗以及戏剧与假面剧中的歌曲》（Sir William Davenant: The Shorter Poems, and Songs from the Plays and Masques）； 《萧伯纳的艺术与思想：批评文章》（The Art and Mind of Shaw: Essays in Criticism）；《萧伯纳：访谈与...(展开全部)

From his earliest work - on personal identity - to his last - on the value of truthfulness - Bernard Williams' ideas and arguments have been sometimes controversial, often influential, and always worth studying. Mark Jenkins provides a comprehensive account of Williams' many significant contributions to contemporary philosophy and his relation to the work of other philosophers,...(展开全部)

From his earliest work - on personal identity - to his last - on the value of truthfulness - Bernard Williams' ideas and arguments have been sometimes controversial, often influential, and always worth studying. Mark Jenkins provides a comprehensive account of Williams' many significant contributions to contemporary philosophy and his relation to the work of other philosophers,...(展开全部)

Luck, Value, and Commitment comprises eleven new essays which engage with, or take their point of departure from, the influential work in moral and political philosophy of Bernard Williams (1929-2003). Various themes of Williams's work are explored and taken in new directions. In their essays, Brad Hooker, Philip Pettit, and Susan Wolf are all concerned with Williams's work on ...(展开全部)

This Element surveys the main claims of Bernard Williams's ethical philosophy. Topics include ethical scepticism, virtue, reasons for action, the critique of the Morality System, moral realism and the nature of theorising in ethics.

贝尔纳•韦尔贝尔是当代法国文坛炙手可热的新锐作家，原担任法国《新观察者》杂志科技记者，后辞去记者一职，成为专业作家。贝尔纳•韦尔贝尔擅长于以科学知识为题材的小说创作。从1991年开始，他陆续发表了以蚂蚁为题材的“地球内部居民”系列小说：《蚂蚁》、《蚂蚁时代》、《蚂蚁革命》。该系列作品以其对昆虫世界里最先进的科学知识所作的激动人心的艺术创作而享誉世界，被誉为“史诗小说式”的作品，是作者的代表作。

This Element surveys the main claims of Bernard Williams's ethical philosophy. Topics include ethical scepticism, virtue, reasons for action, the critique of the Morality System, moral realism and the nature of theorising in ethics.