A C Grayling
Objectively Speaking
Truth And Truthfulness: An Essay In Genealogy
By Bernard Williams
Princeton University Press 328pp £19.95 order from our bookshop
ELEGANCE AND SUBTLETY are the hallmarks of Bernard Williams’s philosophical style, both in the quality of his thought and the manner of his prose. His contributions have enriched philosophical debate for decades, and as this absorbing book about truth and the vocations of truth shows, they continue to do so.
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