Nick Smith

Professor Nick Smith is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sydney, where he has been appointed since 2005. Previously, he served as Lecturer in Philosophy at Victoria University of Wellington from 2001 to 2004. Smith completed his BA (Hons) at the University of Sydney in 1995. He then attended Princeton University as a graduate student, earning an MA in 1998 and a PhD in 2001. As a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, Smith is recognized for his contributions to philosophical logic and vagueness. His research specializations include logics, philosophy of language, vagueness, probability and degrees of belief, and philosophy of time.

Smith has authored several influential books, including Vagueness and Degrees of Truth (Oxford University Press, 2008) and Logic: The Laws of Truth (Princeton University Press, 2012). His key publications also feature "Bananas enough for time travel?" (British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 1997), "Worldly indeterminacy: A rough guide" (Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 2004, with Gideon Rosen), "A plea for things that are not quite all there: Or, is there a problem about vague composition and vague existence?" (The Journal of Philosophy, 2005), "Frege's Judgement Stroke and the Conception of Logic as the Study of Inference not Consequence" (Philosophy Compass, 2009), "Inconsistency in the A-Theory" (Philosophical Studies, 2011), and "Is evaluative compositionality a requirement of rationality?" (Mind, 2014). Additional works include "Time travel" (2013) and contributions to journals such as Synthese, Noûs, and Analysis. Through these publications, Smith has impacted discussions on metaphysics, formal semantics, vagueness theory, and the philosophy of logic.

Professional Email: nicholas.smith@sydney.edu.au