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  • Modal Logic as Metaphysics

    by Timothy Williamson ...
    Are there such things as merely possible people, who would have lived if our ancestors had acted differently? Are there future people, who have not yet been conceived? Questions like those raise deep issues about both the nature of being and its logical relations with contingency and change. In Modal Logic as Metaphysics, Timothy Williamson argues for positive answers to those questions on the ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • Tetralogue

    I'm Right, You're Wrong

    by Timothy Williamson ...
    Four people with radically different outlooks on the world meet on a train and start talking about what they believe. Their conversation varies from cool logical reasoning to heated personal confrontation. Each starts off convinced that he or she is right, but then doubts creep in. In a tradition going back to Plato, Timothy Williamson uses a fictional conversation to explore questions about truth ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

  • The East India Monopoly: Spice Trade Control Mechanics

    Fleets, Shareholders, and the Violent Birth of the First Megacorporation in Global Commerce, 1602–1799

    by Timothy Williamson ...
    Before Wall Street, venture capital, or modern tech monopolies, a single Dutch corporation laid the blueprint for modern capitalism. In 1602, the Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie issued public shares, engineered market mechanics, and violently conquered the global spice trade. "The East India Monopoly" pulls back the curtain on the financial and military machinery of history's first ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Good as Usual

    Anti-Exceptionalist Essays on Values, Norms, and Action

    by Timothy Williamson ...
    Good as Usual argues that contemporary discussion on the nature of norms and values goes wrong by treating them as exceptional and mysterious, since they do not fit popular philosophical assumptions about metaphysics, epistemology, and the philosophy of language. Timothy Williamson shows that, once we throw out those preconceived and outdated ideas, we can understand moral and evaluative features ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Philosophical Method

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Timothy Williamson ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    What are philosophers trying to achieve? How can they succeed? Does philosophy make progress? Is it in competition with science, or doing something completely different, or neither? Timothy Williamson tackles some of the key questions surrounding philosophy in new and provocative ways, showing how philosophy begins in common sense curiosity, and develops through our capacity to dispute rationally ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Vagueness

    by Delia Graff, Timothy Williamson ...
    Series series The International Research Library of Philosophy
    Vagueness, volume XX, contains twenty-seven essays, with issues covered including: nihilism, phenomenal sorites, degrees of truth, epistemicism, higher-order vagueness, contextualism, and intuitionism. Written by leading contemporary philosophers, these essays will be of interest to researchers in philosophy of language, philosophical logic, metaphysics and epistemology; as well as those in ... Read more

    $103.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Philosophical Method

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Timothy Williamson ...
    Narrated by Roger Clark ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 50 min

    What are philosophers trying to achieve? How can they succeed? Does philosophy make progress? Is it in competition with science, or doing something completely different, or neither?Timothy Williamson tackles some of the key questions surrounding philosophy in new and provocative ways, showing how philosophy begins in common sense curiosity, and develops through our capacity to dispute rationally ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Identity and Discrimination

    by Timothy Williamson ...
    Identity and DiscriminationThis updated edition of Identity and Discrimination, first published in 1990 and the first book by well-known philosopher Timothy Williamson, is now reissued with the inclusion of significant new material. This major work – influential in philosophy of perception and the theory of vagueness – continues in an original and rigorous way to highlight the necessity of ... Read more

    $27.00 USD

  • The Philosophy of Philosophy

    by Timothy Williamson ...
    Series series The Blackwell / Brown Lectures in Philosophy
    The Philosophy of PhilosophyThe Blackwell / Brown Lectures in PhilosophyThe Philosophy of Philosophy presents an original, unified concept of philosophy as a non-natural science. In this provocative work, distinguished philosopher Timothy Williamson challenges widely-held assumptions and clarifies long-standing misconceptions about the methodology and nature of philosophical inquiry. The author ... Read more

    $38.00 USD

  • Doing Philosophy

    From Common Curiosity to Logical Reasoning

    by Timothy Williamson ...
    What are philosophers trying to achieve? How can they succeed? Does philosophy make progress? Is it in competition with science, or doing something completely different, or neither? Timothy Williamson tackles some of the key questions surrounding philosophy in new and provocative ways, showing how philosophy begins in common sense curiosity, and develops through our capacity to dispute rationally ... Read more

    $13.29 USD

  • Suppose and Tell

    The Semantics and Heuristics of Conditionals

    by Timothy Williamson ...
    What does 'if' mean? It is one of the most commonly used words in the English language, in itself a sign to the importance of conditional thinking to human cognitive life. We make conditional statements, ask conditional questions, and issue conditional orders. We need to think and talk conditionally for many purposes, from everyday decision-making to mathematical proof. Yet the meaning of ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • Care Bundles in Emergency Medicine

    by Timothy Williamson, Bilal Salman ...
    A care bundle is a group of specific, non-prescriptive, evidence-based components that, when performed collectively and reliably, have been established to improve patient outcomes. Emergency medicine care bundles support healthcare professionals in providing focused management plans for common presentations. They are explicitly focused on the initi ... Read more

    $57.99 USD