Martin Smith
Professor
- Philosophy
- School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences
Contact details
- Email: martin.smith@ed.ac.uk
Address
- Street
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Room 8.12
- City
- 40 George Square, Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH8 9JX
Availability
Office Hour: Thursday 11.00 - 13.00
Background
Originally from Australia, I arrived at the University of Edinburgh in 2016, having worked previously at the University of Glasgow and the University of St Andrews. Here and here are some videos of lectures that I've given at conferences (Collège de France and University of Girona)
Book
Between Probability and Certainty: What Justifies Belief (Oxford University Press, 2016) (Introduction)
Selected papers
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‘Moral encroachment and group to individual inferences’ forthcoming in Philosophical Studies
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‘How to model lexical priority’ Ergo v12(40), 2025
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‘Justification, normalcy and randomness’ Philosophy and Phenomenological Research v110(2), 2025
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‘Is it ever rational to hold inconsistent beliefs?’ Philosophical Studies v181(12), 2024
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‘Decision theory and de minimis risk’ Erkenntnis v89(6), 2024, with a follow-up here and an accompanying video here.
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‘Probability, normalcy and the right against risk imposition’ Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy v27(3), 2024
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‘Risky belief’ Philosophy and Phenomenological Research v106(3), 2023
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‘Two accounts of assertion’ Synthese v200(3), 2022
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‘The hardest paradox for closure’ Erkenntnis v87(4), 2022
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‘Civil liability and the 50%+ standard of proof’ The International Journal of Evidence and Proof v25(3), 2021
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‘Against legal probabilism’ in Robson, J. and Hoskins, Z. eds. The Social Epistemology of Legal Trials (Routledge), 2021
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‘Epistemic logic without closure’ Synthese v198(5), 2021 (with Stephan Leuenberger)
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‘Varieties of risk’ Philosophy and Phenomenological Research v101(2), 2020 (with Philip Ebert and Ian Durbach), with a follow-up here.
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‘When does evidence suffice for conviction?’ Mind v127(508), 2018, included in OUP's 'best of philosophy' list for 2018 and selected for the Mind virtual issue on Evidence, with a follow-up here.
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‘Coin trials’ Canadian Journal of Philosophy v48(5), 2018
- ‘The logic of epistemic justification’ Synthese v195(9), 2018
- ‘Lottery judgments: A philosophical and experimental study’ Philosophical Psychology v31(1), 2018 (with Philip Ebert and Ian Durbach)
- ‘Why throwing 92 heads in a row is not surprising’, Philosophers' Imprint v17(21), 2017
- 'Intuitionistic probability and the Bayesian objection to dogmatism' Synthese v194(10), 2017
- 'The cost of treating knowledge as a mental state' in Carter, A., Gordon, E. and Jarvis, B. eds. Knowledge First: Approaches to Epistemology and Mind (Oxford University Press), 2017
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‘Scepticism by a thousand cuts’ International Journal for the Study of Skepticism v6(1), 2016
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‘Evidential incomparability and the principle of indifference’ Erkenntnis v80(3), 2015
- 'Knowledge, justification and normative coincidence' Philosophy and Phenomenological Research v89(2), 2014
- 'Entitlement and evidence' Australasian Journal of Philosophy v91(4), 2013
- 'Some thoughts on the JK rule' Noûs v46(4), 2012
- 'A generalised lottery paradox for infinite probability spaces' British Journal for the Philosophy of Science v61(4), 2010
- 'What else justification could be' Noûs v44(1), 2010, reprinted in Neta, R. ed. Epistemology (Routledge, 2012)
- 'Transmission failure explained' Philosophy and Phenomenological Research v79(1), 2009
- 'Ceteris paribus conditionals and comparative normalcy' Journal of Philosophical Logic v36(1), 2007
A full list of publications can be found here.
CV
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Research summary
Epistemology, Logic, Philosophy of Law
Past project grants
Co-investigator on the AHRC research project Varieties of Risk (Sep 2020-Jun 2023)
Co-investigator on the AHRC research project The Whole Truth (Jan 2016-Aug 2017)
Principal investigator on the AHRC project Justification and Probability (Sep 2014-May 2015)