John Nicholas Williams
Associate Professor of Philosophy
School of Social Sciences
Singapore Management University
90 Stamford Road, Level 4
Singapore 178903
johnwilliams@smu.edu.sg

M.Sc. in Knowledge-Based Systems, Sussex, 1990;
Ph.D. in Philosophy, Hull, 1981;
M.A. in Philosophy, Exeter, 1976;
B.A. Single Honours in Philosophy, Swansea, 1974

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FORTHCOMING PAPERS


 ‘Beyond Minority Report: Pre-Crime, Pre-punishment and Pre-desert

Forthcoming in Proceedings of ‘Knowledge, Creativity and Transformations of Societies’.

 

‘Propositional Knowledge and Know-How’

online Synthese, 2007. 

Forthcoming 165.1, October 2008, Special Issue on 'Knowledge, Rationality, and Action'.

 

‘Orwell and Huxley: Making Dissent Unthinkable

Forthcoming in Aldous Huxley Annual: A Journal of Twentieth-Century Thought and Beyond.

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PUBLISHED PAPERS


‘The Surprise Exam Paradox: Disentangling Two Reductios’,
(2007) Journal of Philosophical Research 32 pp. 67-95

'Moore's Paradoxes and Iterated Belief'
(2007) Journal of Philosophical Research 32 pp. 145-169

“Altruism and Entrepreneurship: Partners in Social Entrepreneurship”,

(2006) Resource 3, pp. 8-11

Wee Liang Tan, John N. Williams and Teck Meng Tan

 

“Defining the ‘Social’ in Social Entrepreneurship: Altruism and Entrepreneurship”,

(2005) International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal 1, pp. 353-365

Wee Liang Tan, John N. Williams and Teck Meng Tan

 

‘Wittgenstein, Moorean Absurdity and its Disappearance from Speech’,

(2006) Synthesis 149.1, pp. 225-254

‘In Defence of an Argument for Evans's Principle: A Rejoinder to Vahid’
(2006), Analysis, 66.2, pp. 167-170

'Moore's Paradoxes and Conscious Belief'
(2006) Philosophical Studies 127.3, pp. 383-414.

'Moore's Paradoxes, Evans's Principle and Self-Knowledge'
(2004), Analysis, 64.4, pp. 348-53

'The Ethics of Placebo-Controlled Drug Trials in Developing Countries to Prevent Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV'
(2000), Annals of the Singapore Medical Association 29, Keynote Paper, pp. 557-62

'Wittgensteinian Accounts of Moorean Absurditiy'
(1998), Philosophical Studies 92.3, pp. 283-306

'Moorean Absurdities and the Nature of Assertion'
(1996), Australasian Journal of Philosophy 74.1, pp. 115-130

'Moorean Absurdity and the Intentional "Structure" of Assertion'
(1994), Analysis 54.3, pp. 60-66

'Ontological Disproof of God's Existence'
(1992), Australasian Journal of Philosophy 70, pp. 204-10

'Belief-in and Belief in God'
(1992), Religious Studies 28, pp. 401-6

'Confucius, Mencius and the Notion of True Succession'
(1988), Philosophy East and West 38, pp. 157-71

'The Preface Paradox Dissolved'
(1987), Theoria 53, pp. 121-40

'The Absurdities of Moore's Paradoxes'
(1982), Theoria 48, pp. 38-46

'Believing the Self-Contradictory'
(1982), American Philosophical Quarterly 19, pp. 279-85

'Inconsistency and Contradiction'
(1981), Mind 90, pp. 600-2

'Justified Belief and the Infinite Regress Argument'
(1981), American Philosophical Quarterly 18, pp. 85-8

'Moore's Paradox - One or Two?'
(1979), Analysis 39, pp.141-2

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OTHER PUBLICATIONS


Book Reviews

Punishment:  The Supposed Justifications Revisited

by Ted Honderich,

Metapyschology (2006) 10.47.

Knowledge Puzzles: An Introduction to Epistemology
by Stephen Cade Hetherington
(1997), Australasian Journal of Philosophy 75, pp. 562.

An Introduction to Historical Epistemology
by Mary and Jim Tiles
(1996), Australasian Journal of Philosophy 74, pp. 312-14.

Co-edited Volume

Moore’s Paradox: New Essays on Belief, Rationality and the First Person edited by Mitchell. S. Green and John N. Williams,

including articles by Jonathan Adler and Bradley Armour-Garb, Jay Atlas, Tom Baldwin, Claudio de Almeida, Andre Gallois,

Robert Gordon, Mitchell Green, Alan Hájek, Roy Sorensen, and John N. Williams, with a 35-page Introduction by

John N. Williams and Mitchell S. Green. Oxford University Press 2007.

http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=9780199282791

Textbooks

Analytical Skills: Constructing and Evaluating Arguments Edition 2004
by John N. Williams, Tan Yoo Guan, Mark Nowacki and Wong Yew Leong.
McGraw-Hill.

Analytical Skills: Constructing and Evaluating Arguments: Second Edition 2005
by John N. Williams, Tan Yoo Guan, Mark Nowacki and Wong Yew Leong.
McGraw-Hill.

Government Publications

Revenue Accounting and the 5R Revenue Theory for Management Reporting: An Objective and Logical Approach to Revenue and Receivable Recognition in Recording and Reporting
C.S. Choong and John N. Williams
SNP Publishers, pp. 1-195, in the Supreme Court Library No. KZ65CHO

 

 

 

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