John R Williams

Biographic Data

ID237695
NAMEJohn R Williams
GIVEN NAMESJohn R
FAMILY NAMEWilliams
SIGNATUREWILLIAMS J R
AFFILIATIONSMemorial University of Newfoundland
ORCID0000-0002-7050-8403
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS56
TOTAL CITATIONS5
WORKS AS AUTHOR56
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1909
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX1

  • Visible home style

    Open AccessL Jason Anastasopoulos, Dhruvil Badani et al.ARTICLEElectoral Studies2024References: 25

  • Zhuang Zi and the “Greatest Joyousness”

    Open AccessJohn R WilliamsARTICLEComparative Philosophy An…2023

    The present article presents Wang Fuzhi 王夫之 (1619-1692 C.E.)’s reading of the eighteenth chapter of the Zhuang-Zi 莊子 (ZZ) by looking at his entry from Zhuang-Zi-Tong 莊子通 and other key glosses from Zhuang-Zi-Jie 莊子解. The philosophical upshot, I aim to show, is that Wang takes ZZ as presenting the consummation of “the greatest joyousness” (zhi-le 至樂) as requiring getting rid of joyousness as one’s desideratum. Using Derek Parfit’s work as a point o…

  • Inner Chapters of The 'Zhuangzi

    Christoph Harbsmeier, John R WilliamsBOOKInner Chapters of The 'Zhuangzi'2023

  • An Annotated Translation of Fang Yizhi's Commentary on Zhuangzi's “Butterfly Dream” Story

    John R Williams, J Robert G WilliamsARTICLEMonumenta Serica2022

    A glimpse is provided into the Zhuangzi (Master Zhuang) commentary of Fang Yizhi (1611–1671), Yaodi pao Zhuang (Monk Yaodi Distills the Essence of the Zhuangzi), by providing the first translation of all the remarks on the famous butterfly story from the end of the “Qiwulun” (Discourse on Equalizing Things) chapter. The bricolage (pinzhuang) structure of Fang’s text, with layer upon layer of intertextuality (huwenxing), is preserved throughout, t…

  • Qian Mu reads Zhuangzi

    John R WilliamsARTICLEAsian Philosophy2022

    To advance our understanding of both the Book of Zhuāngzǐ 莊子 (c. fourth to third century BCE) and Qián Mù 錢穆 (1895–1990)’s Zhuāngzǐ studies 莊學, I aim to squarely face one of the more obscure passages in the former with recourse to an explanation from the latter. The passage in question is that from the second chapter beginning with the claim ‘there is a beginning’ (有始也者) and culminating with the claim that ‘there has not yet begun to be a “there …

  • Ethics for Biomedical Research Involving Humans

    Open AccessJohn R WilliamsCHAPTERInternational Encyclopedia of the…2015

  • Human language reveals a universal positivity bias

    Open AccessPeter Sheridan Dodds, Eric M Clark et al.ARTICLEProceedings of the National…2015

    Significance The most commonly used words of 24 corpora across 10 diverse human languages exhibit a clear positive bias, a big data confirmation of the Pollyanna hypothesis. The study’s findings are based on 5 million individual human scores and pave the way for the development of powerful language-based tools for measuring emotion.

  • God, Sex and Gender

    Open AccessJohn R WilliamsARTICLEStudies in Religion/Sciences…2013

  • Training Needs Assessment in Research Ethics Evaluation Among Research Ethics Committee Members in Three African Countries

    Open AccessJérôme Ateudjieu, John R Williams et al.ARTICLEDeveloping World Bioethics2010

    Background: As actors with the key responsibility for the protection of human research participants, Research Ethics Committees (RECs) need to be competent and well‐resourced in order to fulfil their roles. Despite recent programs designed to strengthen RECs in Africa, much more needs to be accomplished before these committees can function optimally. Objective: To assess training needs for biomedical research ethics evaluation among targeted coun…

  • Romantic Misfits

    John R Williams, John WilliamsARTICLEEnglish Studies2010

  • Ethical Issues in International Biomedical Research

    Open AccessJohn R WilliamsARTICLEDeveloping World Bioethics2008

  • Heidegger's Philosophy of Religion

    Open AccessJohn R WilliamsARTICLEStudies in Religion/Sciences…2008

  • Cultural geographies in practice

    Open AccessEdward L Kinman, John R WilliamsARTICLECultural Geographies2007Cited by: 3

  • Production of cosmetics and fishmeal from mercury‐contaminated fish‐extracts prior to waste disposal on municipal dump sites

    BASMA YAGHI, A E Pillay et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2006

    The potential effect of deploying mercury‐contaminated fish‐extracts for the manufacture of cosmetics and fishmeal, and discarding the ensuing waste material on municipal dumps was investigated. Our study showed that some levels in fishmeal were elevated and could exceed 600 μg/kg; while the concentrations in fish‐oil (for cosmetics production) and fish‐water (dumped) were appreciable and reached levels of 16 and 12 μg/kg, respectively. Samples, …

  • Unesco's Proposed Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights - A Bland Compromise1

    Open AccessJohn R WilliamsARTICLEDeveloping World Bioethics2005

    The latest (June 2005) draft of UNESCO's proposed Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights is a major disappointment. The committee of government 'experts' that produced it made sure that it would not introduce any new obligations for States, and so the document simply restates existing agreements and lists desirable goals without specifying how they can be achieved. This article focuses on the shortcomings of the document as it would …

  • Faith and Freedom

    Open AccessJohn R WilliamsARTICLEStudies in Religion/Sciences…2004

  • León

    John R Williams, John WilliamsCHAPTER2003

  • Basílica de San Isidoro

    John R Williams, John WilliamsCHAPTER2003

  • The Life of Goethe

    Ehrhard Bahr, John R Williams et al.ARTICLEGerman Studies Review2003

  • Heterogeneity in regional notification patterns and its impact on aggregate national case notification data

    Open AccessJohn R Williams, Piero Manfredi et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2003

    Although an order of magnitude larger, despite great heterogeneity between regions in under-reporting and in epidemic patterns, the shape of the corrected national time series remains close to that of the aggregated uncorrected data. This suggests such aggregate data may be quite robust to great heterogeneity in reporting and epidemic patterns at the regional level. The corrected data set maintains an epidemic pattern distinct from that of Englan…

  • Legitimacy in International Relations and the Rise and Fall of Yugoslavia

    Open AccessJohn R Williams, John WilliamsBOOKLegitimacy in International…1998

  • Targeted hepatitis B vaccination--a cost effective immunisation strategy for the UK

    John R Williams, D James Nokes et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…1996References: 10

    OBJECTIVE: To compare the potential cost effectiveness of vaccination against hepatitis B virus (HBV) targeted at genitourinary clinic (GU) attendees with that of universal infant vaccination. DESIGN: A mathematical model of sexual and perinatal transmission of HBV was used to compare the effectiveness among heterosexual and homosexual populations of programmes of mass infant vaccination and targeted immunisation of genitourinary medicine (GU) cl…

  • Health, Healing, and Religion

    Open AccessJohn R WilliamsARTICLEStudies in Religion/Sciences…1996

  • Echoes from the Past

    John R Williams, John Williams et al.ARTICLEAfrican American Review1994

  • Intersecting Boundaries

    John R Williams, John Williams et al.ARTICLEAfrican American Review1993