Timothy Williamson
British philosopher, Wykeham Professor of Logic at the University of Oxford, and Fellow of the British Academy, known for work in epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of language and logic; author of Knowledge and Its Limits (2000).
Books
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1. Doing Philosophy
From Common Curiosity to Logical Reasoning
A concise, accessible account of how philosophical inquiry is actually practiced, presenting philosophy as a disciplined activity that moves from ordinary curiosity to careful argumentation and logical analysis; it emphasizes clarity, the construction and evaluation of arguments, the critical—but not uncritical—use of intuitions and thought experiments, and the role of formal tools and conceptual refinement in resolving puzzles and conceptual confusions, while situating philosophical methods in relation to empirical science and everyday thinking.
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