Professor Timothy Williamson FBA

Philosophy
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
1997
Subjects
Linguistics, Philosophy

Current post

Wykeham Professor of Logic, University of Oxford

Past appointments

University of Oxford Wykeham Professor of Logic

2000 -

University of Edinburgh Professor of Logic and Metaphysics

1995 - 2000

University College University of Oxford Fellow

1988 - 1994

Trinity College, Dublin Lecturer in Philosophy

1980 - 1988

Publications

The Philosophy of Philosophy

Published in 2007

Knowledge and its limits

Published in 2000

Vagueness

Published in 1994

Identity and discrimination

Published in 1990

What is metaphysics?

14 Aug 2020 Professor Timothy Williamson FBA

Professor Timothy Williamson FBA explains the questions asked by metaphysicians and how you may already be asking them yourself.

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Professor David Denison FBA

History of English, especially syntax, including current change; modelling syntactic change; word classes and word class boundaries, gradience in syntax; corpus construction and problems of tagging

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Professor Adam Ledgeway FBA

The comparative history and morphosyntax of the Romance languages; Italian and Romance dialectology; Latin; Italo-Greek; syntactic theory, linguistic change and language contact

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