Martin Smith
Department of Philosophy
University of Glasgow
67 - 69 Oakfield Avenue
Glasgow
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m.smith@philosophy.arts.gla.ac.uk
My research interests lie primarily in the core areas of epistemology - the threat of scepticism and the nature of knowledge and justified belief. I am particularly interested in different ways of managing fallibility and in how the possibility of error must be controlled if a belief is to count as justified or as knowledge. I also have related interests in conditional logic, the philosophy of probability and the philosophy of mind.
Recent Publications:
- 'A Generalised Lottery Paradox for Infinite Probability Spaces' forthcoming in The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
- 'What Else Justification Could Be' forthcoming in Noûs
- 'Transmission Failure Explained' Philosophy and Phenomenological Research v79(1), 2009 (The published version of the paper can be found here.)
- 'Ceteris Paribus Conditionals and Comparative Normalcy' Journal of Philosophical Logic, v36(1), 2007 (The published version of the paper can be found here.)
Affiliations:
I am a member of the Basic Knowledge project at the Northern Institute of Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen. I am also a member of the Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience and an associate of the Centre for Philosophy and Religion, both at the University of Glasgow.