Timothy Williamson Quotes on Truth

Timothy Williamson’s Knowledge and Its Limits (2000), The Philosophy of Philosophy (2007), and Modal Logic as Metaphysics (2013) give contemporary analytic philosophy one of its most ambitious systematic projects. The central thesis of Knowledge and Its Limits — knowledge first — is that knowledge cannot be analyzed as the conjunction of true belief plus further conditions: knowledge is the most general factive mental state, and the standard projects of analyzing knowledge in terms of belief, justification, and reliability invert the proper order of philosophical explanation. The framework, drawing on Williamson’s earlier work on vagueness and the broader Oxford analytic tradition, shaped the contemporary engagement with epistemology, the methodology of philosophy, and the metaphysics of modality through Williamson’s many students and the broader analytic philosophical landscape.