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Michael A. Smith is an Australian philosopher and academic. He is currently a professor of philosophy at the University of Melbourne. He is best known for his work in the philosophy of language, metaphysics, and the philosophy of mind. Smith was born in Melbourne, Australia, on 23 July 1954. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Melbourne in 1976 and his Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Oxford in 1981. Smith has held a number of academic positions, including a lectureship at the University of Oxford, a professorship at the University of St Andrews, and a professorship at the University of Melbourne. He has also held visiting positions at the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Toronto, and the University of Pittsburgh. Smith has written extensively on the philosophy of language, metaphysics, and the philosophy of mind. His books include The Oxford Handbook of Metaphysics (2003), The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Language (2005), and The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Mind (2007). He has also edited several collections of essays, including Themes from Kaplan (1989) and Themes from Putnam (1995). Smith is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He is also a member of the American Philosophical Association and the Australasian Association of Philosophy.

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Age 69 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born 23 July, 1954
Birthday 23 July
Birthplace Melbourne, Australia
Nationality Australia

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2000

In 2000, Smith's book The Moral Problem (1994) received The American Philosophical Association's first APA Book Prize for excellence in scholarship. Smith is considered to be one of the most important philosophers working in meta-ethics, and is one of the main proponents of a Neo-Humean approach to practical reason.

1994

In The Moral Problem Smith diagnoses a longstanding tension between the apparent objectivity and practicality of moral judgments. The idea of moral objectivity is that "it is a distinctive feature of engaging in moral practice that the participants are concerned to get the answers to moral questions right." (1994 p. 5) Moral judgments are thought to be practical because they are thought to motivate those who accept them. But according to the Humean theory of motivation, a theory that Smith defends in chapter 4, it is not possible for a belief (a judgement about a matter of fact) to motivate someone without the presence of some antecedently held desire. Thus, if moral judgments are beliefs that motivate, they can only be beliefs about how to get something that we already want. But moral judgments, such as the judgment that murder is wrong, are not judgments about how to get something that we already want. Therefore, either they are not beliefs at all (and are therefore not objective) or they cannot motivate us (and are therefore not practical).

1984

Smith earned his B.A. and M.A. in philosophy at Monash University, while his BPhil and DPhil were acquired at Oxford University under the direction of Simon Blackburn. He has held teaching appointments at various universities, including Wadham College, Oxford (1984), Monash (1984-5; 1989–94), Princeton (1985-9; 2004-present), and the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University (1995-2004).

1954

Michael Andrew Smith (born 23 July 1954) is an Australian philosopher who teaches at Princeton University (since September 2004). He taught previously at the University of Oxford, Monash University, and was a member of the Philosophy Program at the Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University. He is the author of a number of important books and articles in moral philosophy. In 2013, he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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