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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2014 - Member of the Royal Irish Academy
  • 2013 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • 2007 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1997 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Overview

Timothy Williamson is affiliated with the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields within the arts and humanities, with a strong focus on philosophy.

The main fields of study include:

  • Arts and Humanities

Within this broad category, Timothy Williamson's subfields of study encompass:

  • Philosophy
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine

The primary topics addressed in their work are:

  • Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics
  • Philosophy and Theoretical Science
  • Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge
  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
  • Pulmonary Hypertension Research and Treatments
  • Philosophy and History of Science
  • Classical Philosophy and Thought

Timothy Williamson has published papers in various respected venues including:

  • Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (6 publications)
  • Problemos (4 publications)
  • The Philosophers Magazine (3 publications)
  • American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine (2 publications)
  • Philosophical Perspectives (2 publications)

Some recent notable papers are:

  • "Mortality in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension in the Modern Era: Early Insights From the Pulmonary Hypertension Association Registry," 2022, Journal of the American Heart Association
  • "Epistemological Consequences of Frege Puzzles," 2021, Philosophical Topics
  • "Theorizing about evidence," 2022, Philosophical Studies
  • "The KK principle and rotational symmetry," 2020, Analytic Philosophy
  • "Degrees of Freedom: Is Good Philosophy Bad Science?", 2021, Disputatio

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Elizabeth Fricker
  • Michael B. Smith
  • Felicia Nimue
  • Ackerman Robert
  • Adams Louise

Regarding book publications, Timothy Williamson has authored works published by Oxford University Press and World Bank eBooks, including:

  • "Suppose and Tell" (2020), Oxford University Press
  • "Driving Nutrition Action Through the Budget: A Guide to Nutrition-Responsive Budgeting" (2023), World Bank eBooks
  • "Driving Nutrition Action Through the Budget: A Guide to Nutrition Responsive Budgeting." (2025), Washington, DC: World Bank eBooks

Awards include:

  • Member of the Royal Irish Academy, 2014
  • Member of Academia Europaea, 2013
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2007
  • Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1997

Best Publications

  • Knowledge and Its Limits

    Timothy Williamson

  • The Philosophy of Philosophy

    Timothy Williamson

  • Knowing and asserting

    Timothy Williamson

  • Modal Logic as Metaphysics

    Timothy Williamson

  • Contextualism, Subject‐Sensitive Invariantism and Knowledge of Knowledge

    Timothy Williamson

  • Identity and discrimination

    Timothy Williamson

  • Reference, inference and the semantics of pejoratives

    Timothy Williamson;Joseph Almog;Paolo Leonardi

  • Philosphical ‘Intuitions’ and Scepticism about Judgement

    Timothy Williamson

  • Vagueness and Ignorance

    Timothy Williamson;Peter Simons

  • PHILOSOPHICAL EXPERTISE AND THE BURDEN OF PROOF

    Timothy Williamson

  • I —ARMCHAIR PHILOSOPHY, METAPHYSICAL MODALITY AND COUNTERFACTUAL THINKING*

    Timothy Williamson

  • Knowing by Imagining

    Timothy Williamson

  • Very Improbable Knowing

    Timothy Williamson

  • II—Timothy Williamson: Understanding and Inference

    Timothy Williamson

  • Replies to Critics

    Timothy Williamson

  • Gettier Cases in Epistemic Logic

    Timothy Williamson

  • Necessary Existents

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  • Is Knowing a State of Mind

    Timothy Williamson

  • PHILOSOPHICAL KNOWLEDGE AND KNOWLEDGE OF COUNTERFACTUALS

    Timothy Williamson

  • On the psychology of vague predicates

    Nicolao Bonini;Daniel Osherson;Riccardo Viale;Timothy Williamson

  • Logic, Metalogic and Neutrality

    Timothy Williamson

  • Vagueness in Reality

    Timothy Williamson

  • Never say never

    Timothy Williamson

Frequent Co-Authors

Annette L. Stanton
Annette L. Stanton University of California, Los Angeles
Jamie S. Ostroff
Jamie S. Ostroff Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Jennifer L. Krull
Jennifer L. Krull University of California, Los Angeles
Karen L. Weihs
Karen L. Weihs University of Arizona
Bruce F. Chorpita
Bruce F. Chorpita University of California, Los Angeles
Daniel N. Osherson
Daniel N. Osherson Princeton University
Robert-Paul Juster
Robert-Paul Juster University of Montreal
Robert M. Bilder
Robert M. Bilder University of California, Los Angeles
Vickie M. Mays
Vickie M. Mays University of California, Los Angeles
Teresa E. Seeman
Teresa E. Seeman University of California, Los Angeles

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