Timothy Williamson#
Membership Number: | 3544 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | PHILOSOPHY, THEOLOGY & RELIGIOUS STUDIES |
Elected: | 2013 |
Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
Homepage(s): | http://www.philosophy.ox.ac.uk/members/philosophy_panel/tim_williamson |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2018 A. Whitney Griswold Visiting Professor, Yale University
- 2016 - 2017 Visiting professor, Yale University
- 2013 - 2015 Nelson Visitor, Department of Philosophy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
- 2004 Visiting scholar, Centre for Advanced Study at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
- 2000 Wykeham Professor of Logic, University of Oxford, and Fellow of New College Oxford
- 1998 - 1999 Visiting Professor, Department of Philosophy, Princeton University
- 1995 Visiting Erskine Fellow, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, University of Canterbury
- 1994 Visiting Professor, Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, M.I.T.
- 1990, 1995 Visiting Fellow, Department of Philosophy, Research School of Social Sciences, A.N.U.
- 1995 - 2000 Professor of Logic and Metaphysics, University of Edinburgh
- 1988 - 1994 Fellow and Praelector in Philosophy, University College, Oxford; C.U.F. Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Oxford
- 1980 - 1988 Lecturer in Philosophy, Trinity College, Dublin
Fields of Scholarship
- Epistemology
- Metaphysics
- Philosophy of language
- Logic
Honours and Awards
- 1997 Fellow of the British Academy
- 1997 Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
- 2004 Foreign member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
- 2007 Foreign honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 2011 Fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce
- 2013 Member of the Academia Europaea
- 2014 Honorary Member of the Royal Irish Academy
- 2017 Member of the Institut International de Philosophie
- 2014 Honorary Fellow of Balliol College Oxford
- 2015 Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Bucharest
- 2018 Honorary Doctorate, University of Belgrade
- Named lectures:
- Henriette Hertz Lecture, British Academy, 1996
- Weatherhead Lecture in Philosophy of Language, Tulane University, 1998
- Jacobsen Lecture, University of London, 2001
- Skolem Lecture, University of Oslo, 2004
- Blackwell Brown Lectures, Brown University, 2005
- Jack Smart Lecture, Australian National University, 2005
- Anders Wedberg Lectures, University of Stockholm, 2006
- Gaos Lectures, Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas, Mexico City, 2006
- Carl G. Hempel Lectures, Princeton University, 2006
- Amherst Lecture in Philosophy, Amherst College, 2009
- Zeno Lecture, University of Utrecht, 2009
- Mesthene Lecture, Rutgers State University of New Jersey, 2010
- Ortlieb Lecture, Claremont Colleges, 2012
- Petrus Hispanus Lectures, University of Lisbon, 2012
- George Myro Memorial Lecture, Berkeley, 2012
- Hägerstrom Lectures, Uppsala University, 2013
- Kim Young-Jung Lectures, Seoul National University, 2013
- Nanqiang Lecture, Xiamen University, 2014
- Annual Lecture in Memory of Ruth Manor, Tel-Aviv University, 2015
- Bergmann Lecture, University of Iowa, 2015
- Beth Lecture, Amsterdam, 2015
- The Logic Lecture, University of Connecticut, 2016
- Saul Kripke Lecture, City University of New York, 2016
- Royal Institute of Philosophy Annual Lecture, 2016
- Wade Memorial Lecture, St Louis University, 2016
- Sainsbury Lecture, King’s College London, 2016
- Whitehead Lectures, Harvard University, 2017
- Casalegno Lectures, University of Milan, 2018
- Gottlob Frege Lectures, University of Tartu, 2018
- Sanders Lecture, APA Central Division, Denver, 2019
- 2003 Nelson Distinguished Professor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
- 2006 Townsend Visitor, University of California, Berkeley
- 2006 José Gaos Chair, UNAM, Mexico
- 2007 Tang Chun-I Visiting Professor, Chinese University of Hong Kong
- 2013 - 2015 Nelson Visiting Professor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
- 2016 Visiting Professor, Yale University
- 2018 A.Whitney Griswold Visiting Professor, Yale University
- 2004 - 2005 President of the Aristotelian Society
- 2005 - 2006 President of the Mind Association 2006-7; Vice-President
- 2008 - 2013 Vice-President of the British Logic Colloquium
- 2014 - 2018 Senior Adviser to the Chinese Society for Epistemology