Many people on the political left found my work psychologically liberating. They began to say: once you realize that standards emerge historically, then you can see through and discard all the norms to which we have been falsely enslaved.

It is of no help to us that there is an absolute truth of the matter of things because unfortunately, none of us are in a position to say definitively what that is - although we all think that we are.

We in universities are not in the democracy business. What we do, when we're doing it, is teach and learn.

It is always incorrect to assume you can know what someone's moral convictions are based on their philosophical theories.

The first thing to ask when writing a sentence is 'What am I trying to do?'

Belief and knowledge are considered to be two different things. But they are not.

This is what language does: organize the world into manageable, and in some sense artificial, units that can then be inhabited and manipulated.