1. Timothy Williamson was born on 6 August 1955 and is a British philosopher whose main research interests are in philosophical logic, philosophy of language, epistemology and metaphysics.
15 Facts About Timothy Williamson
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Timothy Williamson is the former Wykeham Professor of Logic at the University of Oxford, and a fellow of New College, Oxford.
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Timothy Williamson graduated in 1976 with a Bachelor of Arts degree with first-class honours in mathematics and philosophy, and in 1980 with a doctorate in philosophy for a thesis entitled The Concept of Approximation to the Truth.
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Timothy Williamson was Professor of Logic and Metaphysics at the University of Edinburgh, fellow and lecturer in philosophy at University College, Oxford, and lecturer in philosophy at Trinity College, Dublin.
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Timothy Williamson took up the Wykeham Professorship in 2000 and retired in 2023, when he took up a Senior Research and Teaching Fellowship in Philosophy.
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Timothy Williamson has been visiting professor at Yale University, Princeton University, MIT, the University of Michigan, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
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Timothy Williamson was president of the Aristotelian Society from 2004 to 2005.
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Timothy Williamson has contributed to analytic philosophy of language, logic, metaphysics and epistemology.
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Timothy Williamson is fond of using the statement, "no one knows whether I am thin" to illustrate his view.
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In epistemology, Timothy Williamson suggests that the concept of knowledge is unanalysable.
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Timothy Williamson argues against the traditional distinction of knowing-how and knowing-that.
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Timothy Williamson says that knowledge-how is a type of knowledge-that.
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In metaphysics, Timothy Williamson defends necessitism, according to which necessarily everything is necessarily something, in short, that everything exists of necessity.
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However, Timothy Williamson has developed an ontology of bare possibilia which he argues alleviates the worst consequences of necessitism and of the Barcan formula.
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Timothy Williamson has published more than 120 articles in peer-reviewed scholarly journals.