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to have had a child, there is something which is a possible child of Wittgenstein. However, Williamson has also developed an ontology of bare possibilia which he argues alleviates the worst consequences of necessitism and of the Barcan formula. It's not that Wittgenstein's possible child is concrete;
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was considered an astonishing and unacceptable consequence, but has become a relatively mainstream view since his defence of it. Williamson is fond of using the statement, "no one knows whether I am thin" to illustrate his view.
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is unanalysable. This went against the common trend in philosophical literature up to that point, which was to argue that knowledge could be analysed into constituent concepts. (Typically this would be
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Stanley, J. and Williamson, T. (2001) 'Knowing How', The Journal of Philosophy 98(8): 411–444
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Williamson has also published more than 120 articles in peer-reviewed scholarly journals.
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plus an extra factor.) He agrees that knowledge entails justification, truth and
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in mathematics and philosophy, and in 1980 with a doctorate in philosophy (
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An in-depth autobiographical interview with Timothy Williamson
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Suppose and Tell: The Semantics and Heuristics of Conditionals
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Williamson also argues against the traditional distinction of
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Doing Philosophy: From Common Curiosity to Logical Reasoning
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Williamson was Professor of Logic and Metaphysics at the
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Members of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
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Born on 6 August 1955, Williamson's education began at
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Index

Timothy Williamson (disambiguation)
FRSE
FBA

Uppsala
Sweden
Alma mater
Balliol College, Oxford
Thesis
Ruth Barcan Marcus
Philosophy
Epistemology
logic
metaphysics
philosophy of language
Analytic philosophy
Trinity College, Dublin
University College, Oxford
University of Edinburgh
New College, Oxford
Maria Baghramian
Amia Srinivasan
Fuzzy logic
Epistemicism
knowledge-first epistemology
modal logic
metaphysics
John Hawthorne
Jason Stanley
FRSE

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