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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Altruism and Entrepreneurship: Partners in Social Entrepreneurship

Resource (2006)

Wee Liang TAN, John N. WILLIAMS and Teck Meng TAN

Social entrepreneurship has recently captured the imagination of researchers and policy-makers. It promises an altruistic form of capitalism that connects ...

Beyond Minority Report: Pre-Crime, Pre-Punishment and Pre-Desert

Australasian Association of Philosophy Conference (2006)

John N. WILLIAMS

Propositional Knowledge and Know-How

Australasian Association of Philosophy Conference (2006)

John N. WILLIAMS

In Defence of an Argument for Evans's Principle: A ...

Analysis (2006)

John N. WILLIAMS

Wittgenstein, Moorean Absurdity and its Disappearance from Speech

Synthese (2006)

John N. WILLIAMS

G. E. Moore famously observed that to say, I went to the pictures last Tuesday but I don't believe that ...

'p, and I have Absolutely no Justification for Believing that ...

Research Collection School of Social Sciences (2006)

John N. WILLIAMS and Alan Hajek

Punishment: The Supposed Justifications Revisited

Metapsychology (2006)

John N. WILLIAMS

Review of Punishment: The Supposed Justifications Revisited by Ted Honderich, Pluto Press, 2006, ISBN: 9780745321318

The Failure of the Ramsey Test

Research Collection School of Social Sciences (2005)

John N. WILLIAMS

Adam Morton recently argued that the Ramsey test of whether we may accept a conditional as true embodies a misunderstanding ...

Simply Avoid Being Enveloped by Paradox

Research Collection School of Social Sciences (2005)

John N. WILLIAMS

You are told that you may choose one of two envelopes, each containing a sum of money. Since you are ...

p, and I have Absolutely No Justification for Believing that ...

Research Collection School of Social Sciences (2005)

John N. WILLIAMS and Alan HAJEK

Bayesianism tells a story about the epistemic trajectory of an ideally rational agent. The agent begins with a ‘prior’ probability ...

Defining the 'Social' in 'Social Entrepreneurship': Altruism and Entrepreneurship

International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal (2005)

Wee Liang TAN, John N. WILLIAMS and Teck Meng TAN

What is social entrepreneurship? In, particular, what’s so social about it? Understanding what social entrepreneurship is enables researchers to study ...

Solving Moore's Paradoxes without the Notion of Expressing Belief

Australasian Association of Philosophy Conference (2005)

John N. WILLIAMS

A Simple Solution to the Surprise Exam Paradoxes: Disentangling Two ...

New Zealand Division of the Australasian Association of Philosophy Conference (2005)

John N. WILLIAMS

Why We Should Have No Time for the Cable Guy ...

Research Collection School of Social Sciences (2005)

John N. WILLIAMS

A Simple Solution to the Surprise Exam Paradoxes

Research Collection School of Social Sciences (2004)

John N. WILLIAMS

On the Philosophical Life: A Refutation of Cultural Theory's ...

Research Collection School of Social Sciences (2004)

Cultural Theory (CT) is breathtaking in its comprehensiveness and in its simplicity. With regard to CT’s comprehensiveness, it is entirely ...

Using the Economic Concept of a 'Merit Good' to Justify ...

Research Collection School of Social Sciences (2004)

Mark NOWACKI and Wilfried Ver Eecke

Philosophers often lament the limited role that philosophy plays in the intellectual formation of the average university student. Once central ...

Moore's Paradoxes, Self-Knowledge and Evans's Principle

Australasian Association of Philosophy (2004)

A Critique of Cultural Theory's Impossibility Theorem

Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research (2004)

Various proponents of Cultural Theory (CT) have claimed that CT's Impossibility Theorem, namely that there are precisely five viable ways ...

Analytical Skills: Constructing and Evaluating Arguments (2004)

John N. WILLIAMS

Does the Parliament Make a Difference? The Role of the ...

Research Collection School of Social Sciences (2004)

Carolyn Forestiere and Riccardo Pelizzo

A recent survey conducted in a sample of 83 countries by the Inter-Parliamentary Union in collaboration with the World Bank ...

Mistakes in Reasoning

Analytical Skills: Constructing and Evaluating Arguments (2004)

John N. WILLIAMS

Moorean Absurdity, Knowledge and Iterated Belief

Research Collection School of Social Sciences (2003)

John N. WILLIAMS

Moorean Absurdity and Conscious Belief

Research Collection School of Social Sciences (2003)

John N. WILLIAMS

G. E. Moore observed that to for me to assert, “I went to the pictures last Tuesday but I don’t ...

Wittgenstein, Moorean Absurdity and its Disappearance from Speech

Research Collection School of Social Sciences (2003)

John N. WILLIAMS

G. E. Moore famously observed that to say, "I went to the pictures last Tuesday but I don't believe that ...