SelectedWorks - John N. WILLIAMS

Selected Works of John N. WILLIAMS

Former Faculty

John N. Williams was an associate professor in the School of Social Sciences, Singapore Management University between June 2000 to June 2018. He received his Ph.D. from Hull University. His research interests include paradoxes, theory of knowledge, philosophy of religion and applied ethics. His research has been published in American Philosophical Quarterly, Analysis, Journal of Philosophical Research, Mind, Philosophical Studies, and Synthese. He is a co-editor of Moore’s Paradox: New Essays on Belief, Rationality and the First Person, Oxford University Press.

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About John N. WILLIAMS

John N. Williams was an associate professor in the School of Social Sciences, Singapore Management University between June 2000 to June 2018. He received his Ph.D. from Hull University. His research interests include paradoxes, theory of knowledge, philosophy of religion and applied ethics. His research has been published in American Philosophical Quarterly, Analysis, Journal of Philosophical Research, Mind, Philosophical Studies, and Synthese. He is a co-editor of Moore’s Paradox: New Essays on Belief, Rationality and the First Person, Oxford University Press.

Present	Associate Professor of Philosophy, Singapore Management University ‐ School of Social Sciences
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School of Social Sciences
Singapore Management University
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An Introduction to Critical and Creative Thinking: Analyzing and Evaluating ...

Strategic Information Technology Management: Perspectives on Organizational Growth and Competitive Advantage (2015)

T. Brian MOONEY, John Nicholas WILLIAMS and Steven BURIK

The book aims at equipping you with 21st Century Skills key life skills that will drive your future employability, promotion ...

Classifying Generalization: Paradigm War or Abuse of Terminology?

Journal of Information Technology (2015)

John N. WILLIAMS and Eric W. K. TSANG

Lee and Baskerville (2003) attempted to clarify the concept of generalization and classify it into four types. In Tsang and ...

Eliminativism, Dialetheism and Moore's Paradox

John N. WILLIAMS

John Turri gives an example that he thinks refutes what he takes to be “G. E. Moore's view” that omissive ...

Moore’s paradox in belief and desire

Acta Analytica (2014)

John N. WILLIAMS

Is there a Moore’s paradox in desire? I give a normative explanation of the epistemic irrationality, and hence absurdity, of ...

Moore’s Paradox and the Priority of Belief Thesis

Philosophical Studies (2013)

Moore’s paradox is the fact that assertions or beliefs such as Bangkok is the capital of Thailand but I do ...

The Completeness of the Pragmatic Solution to Moore's Paradox ...

Synthese (2013)

John N. WILLIAMS

Moore’s paradox in belief is the fact that beliefs of the form ‘p and I do not believe that p’ ...

The Completeness of the Pragmatic Solution to Moore's Paradox ...

Synthese (2013)

Moore’s paradox in belief is the fact that beliefs of the form ‘p and I do not believe that p’ ...

Eliminativism, Williams' Principle and Evans' Principle

Australasian Association of Philosophy Conference (2013)

John N. WILLIAMS

David-Hillel Ruben’s 'Traditions and True Successors': A Critical Reply

Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective (2013)

John N. WILLIAMS

Discovering naturally processed antigenic determinants that confer protective T cell ...

Departmental Papers (Biology) (2013)

Pavlo Gilchuk, Charles Spencer, Stephanie B Conant, Hill Timothy, et al.

CD8+ T cells (TCD8) confer protective immunity against many infectious diseases, suggesting that microbial TCD8 determinants are promising vaccine targets. ...

Further Reflection on True Successors and Traditions

Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective (2013)

John N. WILLIAMS

Further Reflection on True Successors and Traditions

Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective (2013)

Generalization and Induction: More Misconceptions and Clarifications

Research Collection School of Social Sciences (2012)

Eric W. K. TSANG and John N. WILLIAMS

In ‘Generalization and Induction: Misconceptions, Clarifications, and a Classification of Induction’, we comment on Lee and Baskerville’s (2003) paper ‘Generalizing ...

Generalization and induction: Misconceptions, clarifications and a classification of induction

MIS Quarterly (2012)

Eric W. K. TSANG and John N. WILLIAMS

In “Generalizing Generalizability in Information Systems Research,” Lee and Baskerville (2003) try to clarify generalization and classify it into four ...

Moore-paradoxical belief, conscious belief and the epistemic Ramsey test

Synthese (2012)

John N. WILLIAMS

Chalmers and Hájek (2007) argue that on an epistemic reading—one that seems reasonable—of Ramsey’s test for the acceptability of conditionals, ...

Moore-Paradoxical Assertion, Fully Conscious Belief and the Transparency of Belief

Acta Analytica (2012)

John N. WILLIAMS

I offer a novel account of the absurdity of Moore-paradoxical assertion in terms of an interlocutor’s fully conscious beliefs. This ...

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

TRANS: Internet Journal for Cultural Sciences (2012)

John N. WILLIAMS

Utilitarian ethics are apparently incommensurable with other ethical perspectives. Faced with a choice between maximizing general benefit to society and ...

Generalization and Induction: Misconceptions, Clarifications and a Classification of Induction

Management Information Systems Quarterly (2012)

Eric W. K. Tsang and John WILLIAMS

In “Generalizing Generalizability in Information Systems Research,” Lee and Baskerville (2003) try to clarify generalization and classify it into four ...

Kovesi, Connaturality, and the Metaphysics and Epistemology of Virtues

Morality and Meaning: The Legacy of Julius Kovesi, Studies in Moral Philosophy (2012)

T. Brian MOONEY, Mark NOWACKI and John N. WILLIAMS

Thinking Things Through: An Introduction to Analytical Skills

Research Collection School of Social Sciences (2012)

Ilya FARBER, T. Brian MOONEY, Mark NOWACKI, Yoo Guan TAN, et al.

Moore’s Paradox and the Priority of Belief Thesis

Research Collection School Of Social Sciences (SMU Access Only) (2011)

Virtue, Connaturality and Know-How

Research Collection School of Social Sciences (2011)

John N. WILLIAMS, T. Brian MOONEY and Mark NOWACKI

Virtue epistemology is new in one sense but old in another. The new tradition starts with figures such as Code ...

Moore’s Paradox, Truth and Accuracy

Acta Analytica (2010)

Mitchell S. Green and John WILLIAMS

G. E. Moore famously observed that to assert ‘I went to the pictures last Tuesday but I do not believe ...

Kovesi and the Formal and Material Elements of Concepts

Research Collection School of Social Sciences (2010)

T. Brian MOONEY, Mark NOWACKI and John WILLIAMS

Julius Kovesi was a Hungarian philosopher who initially studied at the University of Budapest under George Lukács. He fled communist ...

Moore's Paradox, the Priority of Belief and Eliminativism

Research Collection School of Social Sciences (2010)

John N. WILLIAMS