NICHOLAS J.J. SMITH
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Courses
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Class timetables and further information are accessible from here.

Present and Future

First semester 2009
Research leave

Second semester 2009
PHIL 1012 Introductory Logic
PHIL 2610 Exploring Nonclassical Logic

First semester 2010
Research leave

Second semester 2010
PHIL 1012 Introductory Logic
PHIL 2650 Logic and Computation

Past

First Year
Logic; Metaphysics; Epistemology; Ethics; Critical Thinking.

Second and Third Year
Epistemology; Metaphysics; Modal and Nonclassical Logics; Logic and Computation; 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.

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Supervision
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Honours

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

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

John Cusbert, 'Loops and Loopholes: The Paradoxes of Time Travel and Backward Causation', 2005 (associate supervisor)

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

MA

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

MPhil

Ben Phillips, 'Two Theories of Modality', 2009

PhD

Daniel Haggard, 'Semantic Inference in Ontology', in progress

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Last modified 18 November 2009