Timothy Williamson | The Role of Philosophy

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Philosopher Timothy Williamson explains our instruments of understanding, the value of analytic philosophy, and why we debate.

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Timothy Williamson is Wykeham Professor of Logic at the University of Oxford and a world renowned philosopher of language and logic. He has written extensively on what philosophy is, and how it should be done.

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