Williamson Reading Group

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What is it?

RSSS are running a reading group on Williamson’s The Philosophy of Philosophy. I’m going to write a 5,000 word paper on it.

Where can it be found?

Williamson,T. (2008); The Philosophy of Philosophy; Blackwell

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Paper Topic

No Ifs, Ands or Nots - Boghossian and Williamson on epistemic analyticity and a priori knowledge

• they clash on the analyticity front over the link between understanding on meaning
• they clash on the a priori knowledge front over Boghossian’s “blind reasoning” argument for a kind of brute entitlement on the basis of understanding logical concepts

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Summary

Williamson - Po P - Intro

Williamson - Po P - Ch 1

Stanford - Essential Accidental Following up some stuff on essentialism from Ch. 1.

Stanford-Vagueness Getting some background before the case study in Ch. 2

Boghossian-Summaries Summaries of Boghossian’s argument for epistemic analyticity for use in my essay.

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Chris Wilcox