Nicholas Jeremy Josef Smith (born 1972) is an Australian philosopher and Professor of
Philosophy
Philosophy (from , ) is the systematized study of general and fundamental questions, such as those about existence, reason, knowledge, values, mind, and language. Such questions are often posed as problems to be studied or resolved. Some ...
at the
University of Sydney.
He is a fellow of the
Australian Academy of the Humanities and a former President of the
Australasian Association for Logic
The Australasian Association for Logic (AAL) is a philosophy, philosophical organisation for logicians in Australia and New Zealand founded in 1965. The purpose of the organisation is to promote the study of logic. The association publishes the Au ...
.
Smith is known for his research on
logics
Logic is the study of correct reasoning. It includes both formal and informal logic. Formal logic is the science of deductively valid inferences or of logical truths. It is a formal science investigating how conclusions follow from premises ...
. He is a lecturer for the popular PHIL1012: Introductory Logic course at the University of Sydney, which broke records in 2021 as the largest course by enrolments in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.
Books
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Logic: The Laws of Truth'',
Princeton University Press, 2012
*''
Vagueness and Degrees of Truth
''Vagueness and Degrees of Truth'' is a 2008 book by Nicholas J. Smith, in which the author examines vagueness based on the idea of "degrees of truth". It means that although some sentences are true and some are false, others possess intermedia ...
'',
Oxford University Press, 2008
See also
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Temporal paradox
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Grandfather paradox
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Time travel
References
External links
Nick Smith at the University of Sydney
Analytic philosophers
Australian philosophy academics
Living people
Academic staff of the University of Sydney
University of Sydney alumni
1972 births
Philosophers of language
Australian logicians
Fellows of the Australian Academy of the Humanities
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