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
Monday 2-3 or by appointment
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 is a video of a lecture that I gave a few years back at the Collège de France.
Book
Between Probability and Certainty: What Justifies Belief (Oxford University Press, 2016) (Introduction)
Selected papers
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‘Justification, normalcy and randomness’ forthcoming in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research
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‘Is it ever rational to hold inconsistent beliefs?’ forthcoming in Philosophical Studies
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‘How to model lexical priority’ forthcoming in Ergo
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‘Decision theory and de minimis risk’ Erkenntnis v89(6), 2024, with 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
Current project grants
Co-investigator on the AHRC research project Varieties of Risk (Sep 2020-Jun 2023)
Past project grants
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)