School of Humanities / Sgoil nan Daonnachdan

Interlace panel from the Govan sarcophagus, carved for the bones of St Constantine, c. 900 AD

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

 

A full list of published papers can be found in the publications section or on my Philpapers Profile.

Jump to: 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2007
Number of items: 11.

2013

Smith, M. (2013) Entitlement and evidence. Australasian Journal of Philosophy . ISSN 0004-8402 (In Press)

Smith, M. (2013) Two notions of epistemic risk. Erkenntnis . ISSN 0165-0106 (doi:10.1007/s10670-012-9376-5) (In Press)

Smith, M. (2013) The arbitrariness of belief. In: Dodd, D. and Zardini, E. (eds.) Contemporary Perspectives on Scepticism and Perceptual Justification. Oxford University Press, Oxford. (In Press)

2012

Smith, M. (2012) Some thoughts on the JK-Rule1. Nous, 46 (4). pp. 791-802. ISSN 0029-4624 (doi:10.1111/j.1468-0068.2012.00866.x)

Smith, M., and Ebert, P.A. (2012) Introduction: outright belief and degrees of belief. Dialectica, 66 (3). pp. 305-308. ISSN 0012-2017 (doi:10.1111/j.1746-8361.2012.01306.x)

Smith, M. (2012) Knowledge, justification and normative coincidence. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research . ISSN 0031-8205 (doi:10.1111/j.1933-1592.2012.00605.x)

2011

Smith, M. (2011) God and the external world. Ratio, 24 (1). pp. 65-77. ISSN 0034-0006 (doi:10.1111/j.1467-9329.2010.00483.x)

2010

Smith, M. (2010) A generalised lottery paradox for infinite probability spaces. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 61 (4). ISSN 0007-0882 (doi:10.1093/bjps/axq019)

Smith, M. (2010) What else justification could be. Nous, 44 (1). pp. 10-31. ISSN 0029-4624 (doi:10.1111/j.1468-0068.2009.00729.x)

2009

Smith, M.J. (2009) Transmission failure explained. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 79 (1). pp. 164-189. ISSN 0031-8205 (doi:10.1111/j.1933-1592.2009.00270.x)

2007

Smith, M. (2007) Ceteris paribus conditionals and comparative normalcy. Journal of Philosophical Logic, 36 (1). pp. 97-121. ISSN 0022-3611 (doi:10.1007/s10992-006-9030-2)

This list was generated on Fri May 3 12:09:19 2013 BST.
  • 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