Timothy Williamson's Tribute to Ruth Barcan Marcus on the Occasion of Her Receipt of the Lauener Prize

Thanks to Professor Williamson for permission to post this outstanding and informative tribute to the remarkable philosophical career of Ruth Barcan Marcus (emerita, Yale):   Download Laudatio.doc.

(I should note that, at the start, Professor Williamson makes it clear that he is a believer in the existence of "analytic philosophy," and as he conceives it, there is such a discipline, though it probably does not include many of the major figures in Anglophone philosophy in the last fifty years.  But that meta-philosophical question is quite independent of the illuminating celebration of Professor Marcus's work.)

UDPATE:  Dan Korman (Illinois/Urbana) reminds me that Professor Williamson's takes a more catholic and less stipulative approach to "analytic" philosophy on p. 21 of his important recent book on The Philosophy of Philosophy.