Timothy Williamson

Timothy Williamson FRSE FBA
Williamson in 2014
Born	(1955-08-06) 6 August 1955 Uppsala, Sweden

Academic background
Alma mater	Balliol College, Oxford
Thesis	The Concept of Approximation to the Truth (1980)
Influences	Ruth Barcan Marcus
Academic work
Era	Contemporary philosophy
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	Epistemology, metaphysics, vagueness
Notable ideas	Epistemicism knowledge as conceptually primitive knowledge-first epistemology modal logic as metaphysics
Influenced	John Hawthorne Jason Stanley

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 former Wykeham Professor of Logic at the University of Oxford, and a fellow of New College, Oxford.