Timothy Williamson

About

Timothy Williamson is a professor associated with the Department of Philosophy at Yale University, serving as the A. Whitney Griswold Visiting Professor of Philosophy during the second half of the spring semester. His recent publications include 'Good as Usual: Anti-Exceptionalist Essays on Values, Norms, and Action' and 'Overfitting and Heuristics in Philosophy,' both published by Oxford University Press in 2024. His research focuses on philosophical issues related to values, norms, and action, contributing to contemporary debates in these areas. Williamson's work is recognized for its rigorous analysis and engagement with foundational questions in philosophy.

Research topics

• Computer Science
• Artificial Intelligence
• Medicine
• Epistemology
• Discrete mathematics
• Intensive care medicine
• Mathematics
• Cardiology
• Philosophy
• Mathematical economics

Selected publications

• Mortality in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension in the Modern Era: Early Insights From the Pulmonary Hypertension Association Registry

  Journal of the American Heart Association · 2022 · 225 citations

  =0.037). Conclusions Mortality in the intermediate- and high-risk patients with PAH remains unacceptably high in the PHAR, suggesting the importance for early diagnosis, aggressive use of available therapies, and the need for better therapeutics.

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• Justifications, Excuses, and Sceptical Scenarios

  2025-01-06 · 167 citations

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  Abstract This chapter argues that epistemologists have misapplied the term ‘justified’ by relying on an impoverished menu of normative options, and in particular by neglecting the category of excuses, for example when classifying as justified the false beliefs of victims of sceptical scenarios. More generally, any norm is shown to generate various logically independent derivative norms, such as being disposed to comply with the primary norm, and doing what someone disposed to comply with the pri…

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• Suppose and Tell

  Oxford University Press eBooks · 2020 · 97 citations

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  The book argues that our use of conditionals is governed by imperfectly reliable heuristics, in the psychological sense of fast and frugal (or quick and dirty) ways of assessing them. The primary heuristic is this: to assess ‘If A, C’, suppose A and on that basis assess C; whatever attitude you take to C conditionally on A (such as acceptance, rejection, or something in between) take unconditionally to ‘If A, C’. This heuristic yields both the equation of the probability of ‘If A, C’ with the co…

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• Understanding and Inference1

  Oxford University Press eBooks · 2020 · 79 citations

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  Abstract The chapter challenges the inferentialist account of concept possession on which Boghossian relies in Chapter 2 in his account of the transmission of justification by deductive reasoning. Unorthodox speakers who reject the inferences in alleged possession condition can still have the concept by understanding a word for it. In that sense, the inferences are not analytic. Inferentialist accounts of logical constants, theoretical terms (using the method developed by Frank Ramsey, Rudolf Ca…

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• Non-Modal Normativity and Norms of Belief

  2025-01-06 · 16 citations

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  Abstract The chapter argues that articulating norms in terms of deontic modals introduces potentially conflicting noise, because the semantics of deontic modals is sensitive to a parameter for the set of contextually relevant possibilities, whereas the underlying condition for complying with the norm is not context-sensitive in that way. Thus, the norm is more perspicuously represented by its compliance condition than by the corresponding conditions for permissibility or obligation. To illustrat…

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Frequent coauthors

• Paul Boghossian

  New York University

  20 shared

• Sonja Bartolome

  The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

  17 shared

• Corey E. Ventetuolo

  Brown University

  15 shared

• Lesley Thoms

  LMU Klinikum

  15 shared

• Oksana A. Shlobin

  Inova Fairfax Hospital

  13 shared

• Roham T. Zamanian

  Stanford University

  11 shared

• Matthew R. Lammi

  Johns Hopkins University

  11 shared

• U Of Lethbridge

  University of Calgary

  9 shared

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