"People have been predicting the death of philosophy since the 17th century. When I was a student, people were saying, 'We're in the last days of philosophy.' Then we were told in the '60s it would be replaced by sociology, then by literary criticism."
Bernard Williams was an English moral philosopher and one of the most influential analytic philosophers of the late twentieth century. He wrote widely on ethics, political philosophy, and the history of philosophy. His major works include Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy and Truth and Truthfulness.