Nicholas J. J. Smith
Nick Smith | |
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| Born | 1972 |
| Awards | Australian Academy of the Humanities fellowship |
| Education | |
| Education | Princeton University (PhD), University of Sydney (BA) |
| Thesis | Vagueness (2001) |
| Doctoral advisor | Gideon Rosen, John P. Burgess |
| Philosophical work | |
| Era | 21st-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Analytic |
| Institutions | University of Sydney |
| Main interests | philosophy of language, logic |
| Notable ideas | degree-based theory of vagueness |
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 and a former President of the Australasian Association for Logic. Smith is known for his research on logics. 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.