Timothy Williamson is Wykeham Professor of Logic at Oxford University, and his research focuses primarily on epistemology, logic, metaphysics, and the philosophy of language.
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00:00 - Introduction
01:33 - How substantive is philosophy
07:16 - Verbal disputes
11:17 - Intuitions
18:29 - Philosophy too reliant on intuitions?
23:52 - Intuitions in philosophy vs. elsewhere
26:26 - Intuitions as arbitrary?
30:14 - Suppositional view of subjunctives
32:50 - Fixed background
35:43 - Evaluating counterfactuals
37:23 - Counterfactuals as context-sensitive
39:34 - Shifting contexts or shifting antecedents?
41:46 - Counterpossibles
49:29 - Explanatory weakness
51:48 - Nonclassical logics
57:45 - Theoretical virtues of logics
59:03 - Simplicity
1:01:17 - Necessitism
1:01:43 - Possible objects and logic
1:04:11 - Understanding possible objects
1:08:16 - Imagining non-concrete objects
1:10:30 - Resolving the dispute
1:14:11 - Basic intuitions
1:15:26 - Epistemic contextualism
1:20:16 - Tracking contexts
1:22:13 - Different knowledge concepts?
1:28:30 - Value of philosophy
1:34:20 - Conclusion
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10 июл 2024
