Timothy Williamson

Timothy Williamson

FRSE FBA
Timothy Williamson; FRSE FBA
	Williamson in 2014
Born	6 August 1955; Uppsala, Sweden
Nationality	British
Academic background
Alma mater	Balliol College, Oxford
Thesis	The Concept of Approximation to the Truth (1980)
Influences	Ruth Barcan Marcus
Academic work
Discipline	Philosophy
Sub-discipline	Epistemology; logic; metaphysics; philosophy of language;
School or tradition	Analytic philosophy
Institutions	Trinity College, Dublin; University College, Oxford; University of Edinburgh; New College, Oxford;
Doctoral students	Maria Baghramian; Amia Srinivasan;
Main interests	Fuzzy 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 Wykeham Professor of Logic at the University of Oxford, and fellow of New College, Oxford.

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