Timothy Williamson

Timothy Williamson (born 6 August 1955) is a British philosopher whose main research interests are in philosophical logic, philosophy of language, epistemology, and metaphysics. He is the former Wykeham Professor of Logic at the University of Oxford, and a fellow of New College, Oxford. Williamson's education began at Leighton Park School and continued at Henley Grammar School. He then attended Balliol College, Oxford, graduating in 1976 with a Bachelor of Arts degree with first-class honours in mathematics and philosophy, and in 1980 with a doctorate in philosophy (DPhil) for a thesis entitled *The Concept of Approximation to the Truth*. He has held academic positions at the University of Edinburgh, University College, Oxford, and Trinity College, Dublin, before taking up the Wykeham Professorship in 2000, retiring in 2023. He has also been a visiting professor at several international universities and was president of the Aristotelian Society from 2004 to 2005. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and a Foreign Honorary Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Since 2022, he has been a visiting professor at the Università della Svizzera italiana.