# Timothy Williamson
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timothy williamson (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 Wykeham Professor of Logic at the University of Oxford, and fellow of New College, Oxford.
== Education and career ==
timothy williamson's education began at Leighton Park School and continued at Henley Grammar School (now The Henley College).
62. Timothy Williamson | Logic, Epistemology
Is philosophy really just wordplay, or can thought experiments and counterfactuals tell us something substantive about reality?
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Timothy Williamson is Wykeham Professor of Logic at Oxford University, and his research focuses primarily on epist…
Is Philosophy a Science?, Timothy Williamson
This lecture in the series Philosophy in Retrospect and Prospect, is presented by Professor Timothy Williamson. He asks what it might mean to call philosophy a science, and explores different views of the relation between philosophy and science over the past century.
Part of TRIP's Centenary Lectur…
Ep. 354: Guest Tim Williamson on Philosophic Method (Part One)
Oxford philosophy professor Timothy Williamson talks to us about his new book, Overfitting and Heuristics in Philosophy. How can we best apply the insights of philosophy of science to philosophy itself? Maybe some alleged philosophical counter-examples are just the result of psychological heuristic…
Logics as Scientific Theories
Timothy Williamson (Oxford) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium titled "Logics as Scientific Theories". Abstract: Logic has far more in common with other branches of science than is usually recognized. One major aim of science is to develop theories that are true, highly general, and maximally info…
Logical Revision and Scientific Methodology
Timothy Williamson (Oxford) gives a talk at the MCMP conference on Paradox and Logical Revision (July 23-25, 2012) titled "Logical Revision and Scientific Methodology".
On a Proposed Extension of Infinitary Logic
Timothy Williamson (Oxford) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium titled "On a Proposed Extension of Infinitary Logic". Abstract: In discussing ‘translation’ schemes between possibilist discourse about merely possible objects and actualist discourse that abjures such objects, Kit Fine proposed interp…
Judgments and Lotteries
Andreas Stokke (Umeå) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (16 January, 2014) titled "Judgments and Lotteries". Abstract: Timothy Williamson has argued that the challenge from experimental philosophy is a form of skepticism about judgments. Given reasons to believe that the actual world contains ins…
Evidence in the Dock | Nick Enfield, Timothy Williamson, Genia Schönbaumsfeld
Should we give up seeing evidence as the truth and instead see it as a persuasive argument? Does evidence settle the matter or is a counter-narrative always possible? And if evidence is not the truth, how are we to choose between competing perspectives and models of the world?
We turn to evidence t…
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