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Showing 1 - 12 of 15 results for “timothy williamson”
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  • Tetralogue

    I'm Right, You're Wrong

    by Timothy Williamson ...
    Four people with radically different outlooks on the world meet on a train and start talking about what they believe. Their conversation varies from cool logical reasoning to heated personal confrontation. Each starts off convinced that he or she is right, but then doubts creep in. In a tradition going back to Plato, Timothy Williamson uses a fictional conversation to explore questions about truth ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Overfitting and Heuristics in Philosophy

    by Timothy Williamson ...
    Series series The Rutgers Lectures in Philosophy
    In his Rutgers Lectures, Timothy Williamson explains how contemporary philosophy suffers from a widespread pathology known as overfitting to natural and social scientists, but little understood by most philosophers. Overfitting involves an insufficiently critical attitude towards data, which leads to over-complicated theories designed to fit what are in fact errors in the data. In philosophy, the ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Good as Usual

    Anti-Exceptionalist Essays on Values, Norms, and Action

    by Timothy Williamson ...
    Good as Usual argues that contemporary discussion on the nature of norms and values goes wrong by treating them as exceptional and mysterious, since they do not fit popular philosophical assumptions about metaphysics, epistemology, and the philosophy of language. Timothy Williamson shows that, once we throw out those preconceived and outdated ideas, we can understand moral and evaluative features ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Suppose and Tell

    The Semantics and Heuristics of Conditionals

    by Timothy Williamson ...
    What does 'if' mean? It is one of the most commonly used words in the English language, in itself a sign to the importance of conditional thinking to human cognitive life. We make conditional statements, ask conditional questions, and issue conditional orders. We need to think and talk conditionally for many purposes, from everyday decision-making to mathematical proof. Yet the meaning of ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • The Philosophy of Philosophy

    by Timothy Williamson ...
    Series series The Blackwell / Brown Lectures in Philosophy
    The Philosophy of PhilosophyThe Blackwell / Brown Lectures in PhilosophyThe Philosophy of Philosophy presents an original, unified concept of philosophy as a non-natural science. In this provocative work, distinguished philosopher Timothy Williamson challenges widely-held assumptions and clarifies long-standing misconceptions about the methodology and nature of philosophical inquiry. The author ... Read more

    $38.00 USD

  • Debating the A Priori

    by Paul Boghossian, Timothy Williamson ...
    What kind of knowledge could be obtainable just by thinking? Debating the A Priori presents a series of exchanges between two leading philosophers on how to answer this question. In this extended debate, Boghossian and Williamson contribute alternating chapters which develop radically contrasting views and present detailed replies to each other's arguments. A central case is the nature of basic ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Philosophical Method

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Timothy Williamson ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    What are philosophers trying to achieve? How can they succeed? Does philosophy make progress? Is it in competition with science, or doing something completely different, or neither? Timothy Williamson tackles some of the key questions surrounding philosophy in new and provocative ways, showing how philosophy begins in common sense curiosity, and develops through our capacity to dispute rationally ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • Doing Philosophy

    From Common Curiosity to Logical Reasoning

    by Timothy Williamson ...
    What are philosophers trying to achieve? How can they succeed? Does philosophy make progress? Is it in competition with science, or doing something completely different, or neither? Timothy Williamson tackles some of the key questions surrounding philosophy in new and provocative ways, showing how philosophy begins in common sense curiosity, and develops through our capacity to dispute rationally ... Read more

    $13.29 USD

  • Identity and Discrimination

    by Timothy Williamson ...
    Identity and DiscriminationThis updated edition of Identity and Discrimination, first published in 1990 and the first book by well-known philosopher Timothy Williamson, is now reissued with the inclusion of significant new material. This major work – influential in philosophy of perception and the theory of vagueness – continues in an original and rigorous way to highlight the necessity of ... Read more

    $27.00 USD

  • Modal Logic as Metaphysics

    by Timothy Williamson ...
    Are there such things as merely possible people, who would have lived if our ancestors had acted differently? Are there future people, who have not yet been conceived? Questions like those raise deep issues about both the nature of being and its logical relations with contingency and change. In Modal Logic as Metaphysics, Timothy Williamson argues for positive answers to those questions on the ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • Vagueness

    by Timothy Williamson ...
    Series series Problems of Philosophy
    If you keep removing single grains of sand from a heap, when is it no longer a heap? From discussions of the heap paradox in classical Greece, to modern formal approaches like fuzzy logic, Timothy Williamson traces the history of the problem of vagueness. He argues that standard logic and formal semantics apply even to vague languages and defends the controversial, realist view that vagueness is a ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Care Bundles in Emergency Medicine

    by Timothy Williamson, Bilal Salman ...
    A care bundle is a group of specific, non-prescriptive, evidence-based components that, when performed collectively and reliably, have been established to improve patient outcomes. Emergency medicine care bundles support healthcare professionals in providing focused management plans for common presentations. They are explicitly focused on the initi ... Read more

    $54.99 USD