The Plausibility of Wittgenstein's Metaphilosophy | Timothy Williamson & Paul Horwich

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UCD School of Philosophy presents: Philosophies of Philosophy - Celebrating 20 years of IJPS. June 17-21 2013 Timothy Williamson (Wykeham Professor of Logic, New College, Oxford University) & Paul Horwich, Professor of Philosophy, NYU - "The Plausibility of Wittgenstein's Metaphilosophy" UCD School of Philosophy: http://www.ucd.ie/philosophy UCD School of Philosophy Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UCDPhilosophy Timothy Williamson: http://philosophy.fas.nyu.edu/object/paulhorwich.html Paul Horwich: http://www.philosophy.ox.ac.uk/members/philosophy_panel/tim_williamson Timothy Williamson has been the Wykeham Professor of Logic at Oxford since 2000. His main research interests are in philosophical logic, epistemology, metaphysics and philosophy of language. He is the author of Identity and Discrimination (Blackwell 1990, updated edition 2013), Vagueness (Routledge 1994), Knowledge and its Limits (Oxford 2000), The Philosophy of Philosophy (Blackwell 2007), Modal Logic as Metaphysics (Oxford 2013), and over 180 articles. Williamson on Knowledge, edited by Patrick Greenough and Duncan Pritchard (Oxford 2009) contains fifteen critical essays on his work and his replies. Paul Horwich, Professor of Philosophy (BA Oxford 1966, MA Yale 1969, PhD Cornell 1974). His principal contributions to the subject have been a probabilistic account of scientific methodology, a unified explanation of temporally asymmetric phenomena, a deflationary conception of truth, and a naturalistic use-theory of meaning. He has received fellowship support for his work from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Science Foundation, and (currently) the Guggenheim Foundation. He has been on the faculties of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (73-95), University College London (95-00), and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (00-05). He has also given courses at UCLA, the CNRS Institut d'Histoire et Philosophie des Sciences et Technique, the University of Sydney, the École Normale Supérieure, and the University of Tokyo. His main present project is a monograph on Wittgenstein's meta-philosophy.