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Williamson on indicatives and suppositional heuristics
Timothy Williamson has defended the claim that the semantics of the indicative ‘if’ is given by the material conditional. Putative counterexamples...
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Williamson on conditionals and testimony
In Suppose and Tell , Williamson makes a new case for the material conditional account. He tries to explain away apparently countervailing data by...
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A Dilemma for the Russo–Williamson Thesis
The Russo–Williamson thesis maintains that establishing a causal claim in medicine normally requires establishing both a correlation and a mechanism....
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Norms, epistemic norms, context, and counterfactuals
The paper defends an account of the context-sensitivity of norms that draws on the resources of counterfactual conditionals. The account combines two...
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Why a Gricean-style defense of the vacuous truth of counterpossibles won’t work, but a defense based on heuristics just might
Counterpossibles are counterfactuals with an impossible antecedent. According to the orthodox view of counterfactuals, all counterpossibles are...
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A note on Williamson’s Gettier cases in epistemic logic
In a recent series of papers, Timothy Williamson argues that one can reach Edmund Gettier’s conclusion that the justified-true-belief (JTB) theory of...
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Knowing What One Likes: Epistemicist Solution to Faultless Disagreement
In this paper, I argue that the phenomenon of faultless disagreement for predicates of taste may be fruitfully explained by appealing to the...
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Generic inferential rules for slurs: Dummett and Williamson on ethnic pejoratives
Michael Dummett has proposed an influential analysis of the meaning of ethnic and racial slurs based on inferential rules. Timothy Williamson,...
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Heuristics in philosophy
This article argues that heuristics play a key role in philosophy, in generating both our verdicts on proposed counterexamples to philosophical...
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Can Non-classical Logic Treat Mathematics as Exceptional?
The paper criticizes a ‘lazy’ strategy popular amongst contemporary advocates of non-classical logic motivated by non-mathematical phenomena (e.g....
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Acting on knowledge-how
The paper explains how to integrate the knowledge-first approach to epistemology with the intellectualist thesis that knowing-how is a kind of...
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The epistemology of thought experiments without exceptionalist ingredients
This paper argues for two interrelated claims. The first is that the most innovative contribution of Timothy Williamson, Herman Cappelen, and Max...
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Timothy Williamson’s Coin-Flip** Argument: Refuted Prior to Publication?
In a well-known paper, Timothy Williamson (Analysis 67:173–180,
2007 ) claimed to prove with a coin-flip** example that infinitesimal-valued... -
Necessitism, Contingentism, and Lewisian Modal Realism
Necessitism is the controversial thesis that necessarily everything is necessarily something, namely that everything, everywhere, necessarily exists....
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Indeterminacy and Non-classical Logic
This paper is a response to a challenge set by Timothy Williamson in his Contribution to this volume where he argues that, even leaving aside the...
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Two Norms of Intention: a Vindication of Williamson’s Knowledge-Action Analogy
According to an important analogy between knowledge and action, as proposed by Timothy Williamson, intention aims at (intentional) action just as...
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Explizite Metaphilosophie
Unter expliziter Metaphilosophie werden metaphilosophische Aussagen, Theorien und Theorienreihen verstanden, die von dem Bewusstsein begleitet sind,...
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Anti-luminosity and anti-realism in metaethics
This paper begins by applying a version of Timothy Williamson’s anti-luminosity argument to normative properties. This argument suggests that there...
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Theorizing about evidence
The paper defends the infallibilist account of evidential support in Knowledge and its limits from Jessica Brown’s objections in her book Fallibilism:...