The second volume in the Blackwell Brown Lectures in Philosophy, this volume offers an original and provocative take on the nature and methodology of philosophy.
Based on public lectures at Brown University, given by the pre-eminent philosopher, Timothy Williamson
Rejects the ideology of the 'linguistic turn', the most distinctive trend of 20th century philosophy
Explains the method of philosophy as a development from non-philosophical ways of thinking
Suggests new ways of understanding what contemporary and past philosophers are doing
About the Author
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.
Features
Based on public lectures at Brown University, given by the pre-eminent philosopher, Timothy Williamson
Proposes an original and controversial theory on the nature and methodology of philosophy
Rejects the ideology of the 'linguistic turn', the most distinctive trend of 20th century philosophy
Explains the method of philosophy as a development from non-philosophical ways of thinking
Suggests new ways of understanding what contemporary and past philosophers are doing
