Dr Martin Smith
- Lecturer (Philosophy)
email: Martin.Smith@glasgow.ac.uk
Office Hours: I am currently on research leave.
I work primarily in epistemology. I'm particularly interested in epistemic justification, epistemic entitlement, the management of error risk and the epistemology of religious belief. My current CV can be found here.
Recent and forthcoming papers
- 'Entitlement and Evidence' Australasian Journal of Philosophy, forthcoming (The published version can be found here.)
- 'Knowledge, Justification and Normative Coincidence' Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, forthcoming
- 'Two Notions of Epistemic Risk' Erkenntnis, forthcoming
- 'The Arbitrariness of Belief' in Dodd, D. and Zardini, E. eds. Contemporary Perspectives on Scepticism and Perceptual Justification (Oxford: Oxford University Press), forthcoming
- 'Outright Belief and Degrees of Belief' Dialectica v66(3), 2012 (with Philip Ebert)
- 'Some Thoughts on the JK-Rule' Noûs v46(4), 2012
- 'God and the External World' Ratio v24(1), 2011 (The published version can be found here.)
- 'A Generalised Lottery Paradox for Infinite Probability Spaces' British Journal for the Philosophy of Science v61(4), 2010 (The published version can be found here.)
- 'What Else Justification Could Be' Noûs v44(1), 2010 (The published version can be found here.)
- 'Transmission Failure Explained' Philosophy and Phenomenological Research v79(1), 2009 (The published version can be found here.)
A full list of published papers can be found in the publications section or on my Philpapers Profile.
- Received (jointly with Philip Ebert and Peter Milne) grants from the Scots Philosophical Association, and the British Society for the Philosophy of Science for a workshop on beliefs and degrees of belief held at the University of Stirling in 2010.
- Received (jointly with Philip Ebert and Peter Milne) grants from the Scots Philosophical Association, the Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association, to support a workshop on the lottery paradox, held at the University of Glasgow in 2009.
Current PhD students:
- Stephanie Rennick
- Neil McDonnell
- Geert Drieghe
Current teaching:
- JH3: Epistemology
- SH26: Justification and Probability
- Russell/Ayer component of 2K: Knowledge, Meaning and Inference
