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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John Williams on Philosophy


FORTHCOMING PAPERS


 

‘Generalization and Hume’s Problem of Induction: Misconceptions and Clarifications’

Forthcoming in Management Information Systems Quarterly.

John N. Williams and Eric Tsang

 

Kovesi, Connaturality, and the Metaphysics and Epistemology of Virtues’

Forthcoming in Morality and Meaning: The Legacy of Julius Kovesi, (eds.) T. Brian Mooney

and Alan Tapper, Studies in Moral Philosophy, Brill Academic Publishers.

Brian Mooney, Mark Nowacki and John N. Williams.

 

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PUBLISHED PAPERS


 

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

Proceedings of ‘Knowledge, Creativity and Transformations of Societies, 10-15.

 

‘The Completeness of the Pragmatic Solution to Moore’s Paradox in Belief: A Reply to Chan’

(2011) Synthese DOI: 10 1007/s11229-8.

 

Moore-paradoxical Belief, Conscious Belief and the Epistemic Ramsey Test’

(2011)Topics in Contemporary Epistemology, a special issue of Synthese. DOI: 10.1007/s11229-011-9925-5.

 

Kovesi and the Formal and Material Elements of Concepts’

 

(2011) Philosophia. DOI: 10.1007/s11406-9305-x.

T. Brian Mooney, Mark Nowacki and John N. Williams

 

Moore-paradoxical Assertion, Fully Conscious Belief and the Transparency of Belief’

(2011) Acta Analytica. DOI: 10.1007/s12136-011-0122-4

 

‘Moore’s Paradox, Truth and Accuracy’

(2010) Acta Analytica October.

Mitchell S. Green and John N. Williams

 

Moore’s Paradox, Defective Interpretation, Justified Belief and Conscious Belief’

(2010)Theoria 76 pp. 211-248.

 

‘Justifying circumstances and Moore-paradoxical beliefs: a response to Brueckner

(2009) Analysis 69 pp. 490-96.

 

‘Propositional Knowledge and Know-How’

(2008) Synthese 165 pp. 107-125.

‘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) Synthese 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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Book Chapters

John N. Williams and Mitchell. S. Green, ‘Introduction’

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

(Oxford University Press 2007).

 

John N. Williams, ‘Moore’s Paradoxes, Evans’s Principle and Iterated Belief’

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

(Oxford University Press 2007).

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

Thinking Things Through: An Introduction to Analytical Skills Second Edition

by Ilya Farber, Brian Mooney, Mark Nowacki, Tan Yoo Guan and John N. Williams

2011 McGraw-Hill. 

 

Thinking Things Through: An Introduction to Analytical Skills

by Ilya Farber, Brian Mooney, Mark Nowacki, Tan Yoo Guan and John N. Williams

2009 McGraw-Hill. 

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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