"The people I really do dislike are the morally unimaginative kind of evolutionary reductionists who, in the name of science, think they can explain everything in terms of our early hominid ancestors or our genes, with their combination of high-handed tone and disregard for history. Such reductive speculation encourages a really empty scientism."
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.