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Lewis Williams


Email: lewis.williams@philosophy.ox.ac.uk

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I am a Postdoctoral Associate of the Oxford Philosophy Faculty, funded by the Analysis Studentship. From October 2025, I will be an Early Career Researcher in Philosophy and Julia de Lacy Mann Fellow at Merton College, University of Oxford.

I completed my DPhil in Philosophy at the University of Oxford in 2025.

Here's my CV.

Research

I work mainly in ethics. At present, my research concerns the relationship between normativity and deliberation. My work in this area touches upon uncertainty, pluralism, and nihilism in meta-ethics.

Other research interests include the ethics of AI (especially value alignment), duties of beneficence, and philosophical questions surrounding meaning in life.

Publications

Why Moral Paradoxes Actually Support Moral Nihilism (and Why That Matters). The Journal of Philosophy (forthcoming).

Revolutionary Normative Subjectivism. Australasian Journal of Philosophy (2025): 1–19.

Moral Nihilism—So What?. Ethics 134 (2023): 108–121.

Teaching

At the University of Oxford, I have tutored the following courses:

  • General Philosophy

  • Moral Philosophy

  • Ethics

  • Practical Ethics

  • Ethics of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Technology

  • Theory of Politics

  • Knowledge and Reality

In spring 2026, I will teach a graduate class entitled Authoritative Normativity.

I have also served as a teaching assistant for General Philosophy and supervised an undergraduate thesis on welfare subjectivism.

Public Philosophy

I am a 2025 Philosophy in Media Fellow.

I co-organize I Didn't Know Philosophers Did That!—a series of outreach events that introduce state-educated students to topics that they might be surprised to learn that philosophers think and write about (e.g., mental health, gaming, and rap music).

Between 2022 and 2025 I co-hosted The Philosopher's Nest podcast along with Kyle van Oosterum. The Philosopher's Nest showcased the work, insights, and experiences of graduate students in philosophy.

Between 2019 and 2021 I hosted the Searching For It podcast. Searching For It explored philosophical perspective on the meaning of life. Searching For It peaked at #2 on Apple Podcasts' daily Philosophy charts in the United States of America.

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