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Philosophy as a Humanist Discipline:
The Legacy of Isaiah Berlin, Stuart
Hampshire, 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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