Doing Philosophy von Williamson, Timothy

Vier Menschen mit unterschiedlichsten Ansichten unterhalten sich während einer Zugfahrt darüber, an was sie glauben und was sie für richtig halten. Die Gespräche wechseln zwischen kühler Logik, hitzigem Streit und emotionalem Geplänkel....

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...

What does 'if' mean? Timothy Williamson presents a controversial new approach to understanding conditional thinking, which is central to human cognitive life. He argues that in using 'if' we rely on psychological heuristics, fast and...

Is philosophy a unique discipline, or are its methods more like those of other sciences than many philosophers think? Timothy Williamson explains clearly and concisely how contemporary philosophers think and work, and reflects on their...

The expanded new edition of one of the most influential and controversial books about the nature of philosophy published in the past several decades The Philosophy of Philosophy presents an original, unified concept of philosophy as a...

Identity and Discrimination, originally published in 1990 and the first book by respected philosopher Timothy Williamson, is now reissued and updated with the inclusion of significant new material. Williamson here proposes an original...

Vagueness is the first comprehensive treatment of this increasingly important topic in metaphysics and the philosophy of logic and language. Students in these areas and researchers in artificial intelligence and linguistics will find its...

„Modal Logic as Metaphysics“ von Timothy Williamson ist ein philosophisches Werk, das sich mit der Beziehung zwischen modaler Logik und metaphysischen Fragen beschäftigt. Williamson argumentiert, dass modale Logik – die Disziplin, die...