Introduction / Daniel Callcut -- Ethics and metaphysics -- The absolute conception : Putnam vs Williams / Simon Blackburn -- The good life and the "radical contingency of the ethical" / John Cottingham -- Did Williams find the truth in relativism? / Carol Rovane -- Human reasons -- Williams on reasons and rationality / Joshua Gert -- Thick concepts and emotion / Peter Goldie -- The architecture of integrity / Daniel Markovits -- Stories and self-conceptions -- D'où venons-nous, que sommes nous, où allons-nous? / Elijah Millgram -- Williams and the phenomenological tradition / Charles Guignon -- Bernard Williams and the importance of being literarily earnest / Frances Ferguson -- Political realism -- Bernard Williams : tragedies, hope, justice / Martha Nussbaum -- Against political luck / Christopher Kutz -- Political agency and the actual / Sharon R. Krause.