NICHOLAS J.J. SMITH
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Logic: The Laws of Truth       Vagueness and Degrees of Truth

 

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Courses Taught
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Click here for information on studying logic at the University of Sydney.

Present

First semester 2024
PHIL2615 Logic and Proof

Second semester 2024
PHIL1012 Introductory Logic

Past

First Year
Logic
Epistemology
Metaphysics
Ethics
Critical Thinking

Second and Third Year
Epistemology
Metaphysics
Modal and Intensional Logics
Many-Valued and Fuzzy Logics
Exploring Nonclassical Logics
Logic and Computation
Logic and Proof
Intermediate Logic
Advanced Logic
Philosophy of Language
Origins of Analytic Philosophy
Probability and Decision Theory
Perception and Colour

Honours and Postgraduate
Vagueness
Time Travel
Frege and Wittgenstein
Logics of Vagueness
Probability
Formal Semantics
Internalism and Externalism (in
    Semantics and Epistemology)
Semantic Scepticism
Current Research in Logic
Formal Philosophy
Vagueness and Decision Theory
Foundations of Decision Theory
Origins of Probability
Probability, Provability and the Law

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Completed Supervisions
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Honours

Scott Waygood, 'Difficulties and Impossibilities of Translation between Languages', 2002

Daniel Haggard, 'Names and the Semantic Context', 2005

Ben Phillips, 'Combinatorial Theories of Possibility', 2006

Stuart Wong, 'The Liar Paradox: Sentential Twists and Inferential Knots', 2009

Hezki Symonds, 'Re-examining Internalism in the Philosophy of Language', 2009

Tristan Haze, 'On the Interpretation of the Propositional Calculus', 2010

Adam Lees, 'A Naturalistic Theory of Perceptual Representation', 2012

David Chua, 'Aristotelian Modal Realism', 2012

Dominic Dimech, 'A New Approach to the Coherence Theory of Truth', 2013

Toby Solomon, 'Failing To Tell The Truth: An Exploration of Transparent Truth and Paradox', 2014

Imogen Walsh, 'Passage in the Block Universe: Why Does Time Seem to Pass?', 2020

Oscar Sannen, 'Forced Marches on the Cocaine of Science', 2020

Christian Alafaci, 'Vagueness, Identity, and Quantum Objects', 2020

Fengning Yang, 'Anti-exceptionalism and the Epistemology of Logic', 2021

Lyric Liu, 'Impossible worlds and impossible times under the world-time parallel as a solution to the problem of non-existent objects', 2023

MA

Albert Haig, 'Semantic Holism, Divine Incomprehensibility, and Mysticism', 2008

MPhil

Ben Phillips, 'Two Theories of Modality', 2009

Hezki Symonds, 'Will the Real Theory of Representation Please Stand Up?', 2012

Simon Varey, 'Definite Descriptions are Directly Referential', 2016

PhD

Bin Liu, 'Conventionalism and Necessity', 2017

Tristan Grøtvedt Haze, 'Necessity and Propositions', 2017

Winston Leung, 'A Non-Ideal Epistemology of Disagreement: Pragmatism and the Need for Democratic Inquiry', 2023

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Last modified 24 February 2024