Region: | Western philosophy |
Era: | 21st-century philosophy |
Nick Smith | |
Birth Date: | 1972 |
School Tradition: | Analytic |
Institutions: | University of Sydney |
Main Interests: | philosophy of language, logic |
Thesis Title: | Vagueness |
Thesis Url: | https://search.proquest.com/docview/251106893 |
Thesis Year: | 2001 |
Doctoral Advisor: | Gideon Rosen, John P. Burgess |
Notable Ideas: | degree-based theory of vagueness |
Education: | Princeton University (PhD), University of Sydney (BA) |
Awards: | Australian Academy of the Humanities fellowship |
Nicholas Jeremy Josef Smith (born 1972) is an Australian philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sydney.He is a fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities[1] and a former President of the Australasian Association for Logic.Smith is known for his research on logics.[2] [3] [4] 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.[5]