Philosophy of Philosophy

Timothy Williamson is Wykeham Professor of Logic at the University of Oxford, a Fellow of the British Academy, and a foreign honorary member of the American Academy of Arts. Williamson is the author of Identity and Discrimination (1990), Vagueness (1996), Knowledge and its Limits (2000) and numerous articles on logic, philosophy of language, epistemology, and metaphysics.

“Worthwhile reading … for anyone reckoning him or herself to be part of the analytic tradition. Superb in coming to grips with one’s methodological self-understanding.” Metapsychology

• Preface. Acknowledgments.Introduction.1. The Linguistic Turn and the Conceptual Turn.2. Taking Philosophical Questions at Face Value.3. Metaphysical Conceptions of Analyticity.4. Epistemological Conceptions of Analyticity.5. Knowledge of Metaphysical Modality.6. Thought Experiments.7. Evidence in Philosophy.8. Knowledge Maximization.Afterword. Must Do Better.Appendix 1. Modal Logic within Counterfactual Logic.Appendix 2. Counterfactual Donkeys.Bibliography.Index