Michael J. Williams

Krieger-Eisenhower Professor MICHAEL J. WILLIAMS joined Hopkins’ Department of Philosophy in 2000 and now serves as its chair. While specializing in epistemology, with particular reference to skepticism, he also works in philosophy of language and the history of modern philosophy. He is the author of Groundless Belief: An Essay on the Possibility of Epistemology, Unnatural Doubts: Epistemological Realism and the Basis of Skepticism, and Problems of Knowledge. Dr. Williams is working on a fourth book, Curious Researches: Reflections on Skepticism, Ancient and Modern.