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Michael Williams
Department Chair

Department of Philosophy
Johns Hopkins University
Gilman Hall 347
3400 North Charles St.
Baltimore, MD 21218
410-516-7524 Office
410-516-6848 Fax

Michael Williams


Epistemology, Philosophy of Language, History of Modern Philosophy

Johns Hopkins University
Gilman Hall 347-A
3400 North Charles St.
Baltimore, MD 21218

Phone: 410-516-7030
E-mail: mwilliams@jhu.edu

PhD: Princeton University

Michael Williams is a Krieger-Eisenhower Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy.  Before coming to Johns Hopkins, he taught at Yale, the University of Maryland and Northwestern. He has been the recipient of an NEH fellowship and has held visiting positions at several universities including Chicago, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and MIT. His main areas of interest are epistemology (with special reference to skepticism), philosophy of language and the history of modern philosophy. In addition to numerous articles, he is the author of Groundless Belief (1977; 2nd edition 1999), Unnatural Doubts (1992; 2nd edition 1996) and Problems of Knowledge (2001). He is currently working on Curious Researches: Reflections on Skepticism Ancient and Modern.

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