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Richard Bett
Acting Department Chair and
Graduate Advisor

Department of Philosophy
Johns Hopkins University
3400 North Charles Street
Dell House, 12th Floor
Baltimore, MD 21218
410-516-7524 Office
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Department of Philosophy
Johns Hopkins University
2850 North Charles Street
Room 1202B
Baltimore, MD 21218


Michael Williams


Epistemology, Philosophy of Language, History of Modern Philosophy

Johns Hopkins University
Dell House - Suite 1201, Room 1201A
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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