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Timothy Williamson
FRSE FBA
Williamson in 2014
Born (1955-08-06) 6 August 1955 (age 68)
Uppsala, Sweden
NationalityBritish
Academic background
Alma materBalliol College, Oxford
ThesisThe Concept of Approximation to the Truth (1980)
InfluencesRuth Barcan Marcus
Academic work
DisciplinePhilosophy
Sub-discipline
  • Epistemology
  • logic
  • metaphysics
  • philosophy of language
School or traditionAnalytic philosophy
Institutions
  • Trinity College, Dublin
  • University College, Oxford
  • University of Edinburgh
  • New College, Oxford
Doctoral students
  • Maria Baghramian
  • Amia Srinivasan
Main interestsFuzzy logic
Notable ideas
  • Epistemicism
  • knowledge as conceptually primitive
  • knowledge-first epistemology
  • modal logic as metaphysics
Influenced
  • John Hawthorne
  • Jason Stanley

Timothy Williamson FRSE FBA (born 6 August 1955) is a British philosopher whose main research interests are in philosophical logic, philosophy of language, epistemology and metaphysics. He is the former Wykeham Professor of Logic at the University of Oxford, and a fellow of New College, Oxford.

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