How philosophy occupies the everyday | Timothy Williamson
95Timothy Williamson discusses how philosophy occupies the everyday.
In this interview, professor of Logic at the University of Oxford, Timothy Williamson, discusses how philosophy occupies the everyday. He examines how common sense can sometimes not be fully self-consistent and can even lead us into certain logical paradoxes. He also discusses in what ways philosophy is comparable to the natural sciences and how language is ill-equipped to describe people's experiences of reality. In this discussion, Williamson also touches on the arbitrariness of disciplinary boundaries when it comes to understanding life's fundamental questions.
Timothy Williamson is the Wykeham Professor of Logic at the University of Oxford and a fellow of New College, Oxford. His main research areas are philosophy of logic, philosophy of language, epistemology and metaphysics. He is the author of the widely translated Knowledge and Its Limits and The Philosophy of Philosophy.
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Timothy Williamson is Wykeham Professor of Logic at the University of Oxford and world renowned philosopher of language and logic. He has written extensively on what philosophy is, and how it should be done, in works such as Doing Philosophy: From Common Curiosity to Logical Reasoning and The Philosophy of Philosophy.
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