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Nicholas Smith

BA Newcastle (UK), MA York (UK), PhD Glas.

Before moving to Macquarie in July 1997, Nick lived in London, where he spent three and a half years as Research Fellow in Modern European Philosophy at Middlesex University. Prior to that he lived in Scotland, where he did his doctorate and taught philosophy at the Universities of Glasgow and Paisley. He is also a graduate of the Universities of Newcastle and York. He was born and raised in Liverpool, England.

Teaching

Nick currently teaches or has taught the following units:

  • PHIL131 Mind, Meaning and Metaphysics
  • PHIL132 Philosophy, Morality and Society
  • PHIL245 History of Philosophy 1
  • PHIL254 Freedom and Alienation
  • PHIL359 History of Philosophy 2
  • Honours Seminars:
    • The Philosophy of Charles Taylor
    • John McDowell’s Mind and World
    • Axel Honneth’s Ethics of Recognition
    • Marx’s Social Philosophy; Philosophy and Work

Honours Supervision

8 honours theses on a range of topics in European Philosophy, ethics and social philosophy

Graduate Supervision

Current Students

Selected publications

Monographs

Charles Taylor: Meaning, Morals and Modernity, Cambridge, Polity, 2002.

Strong Hermeneutics: Contingency and Moral Identity, London and New York, Routledge, 1997.

Edited Books

Critique Today, co-ed with Robert Sinnerbrink, Jean-Philippe Deranty, and Peter Schmiedgen, Leiden, Brill, 2006.

Perspectives on the Philosophy of Charles Taylor, co-ed with Arto Laitinen, Helsinki, Acta Philosophica Fennica, vol. 71, 2002

Reading McDowell: On Mind and World, London and New York, Routledge, 2002.


Chapters of Edited Books

'Recognition, Culture and Economy: Honneth’s Debate with Fraser', in D. Petherbridge ed., The Philosophy of Axel Honneth, Leiden and Boston, Brill (forthcoming)

'Is Monotheism Compatible with Pluralism? Reflections Richard Rorty's Critique of Religion', in Avery Plaw ed., Frontiers of Diversity: Essays in Contemporary Pluralism, Amsterdam, Rodopi, 2005, pp.17-32.

'Taylor in the Hermeneutic Tradition', in Ruth Abbey ed., Charles Taylor (Contemporary Philosophy in Focus), Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2004, pp. 29-51.

'Overcoming Representationalism', in Arto Laitinen and Nicholas H. Smith eds, Perspectives on the Philosophy of Charles Taylor, pp. 29-43

'Hans-Georg Gadamer', in Jon Simons ed., Kant to Levi-Strauss: Precursors of Critical Theory, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2002, pp. 181-196.


Articles

'Work and the Struggle for Recognition', European Journal of Political Philosophy (forthcoming)

‘Levinas, Habermas and Modernity’, Philosophy and Social Criticism (forthcoming)

'Hope and Critical Theory', Critical Horizons, Vol. 6, No. 1, 2005, 45-61.

'Rorty on Religion and Hope', Inquiry, Vol. 48, No. 1, 2005, 76-98.

 

Current research

Nick's general research interests lie in modern European Philosophy, social and political philosophy, theories of subjectivity, and religion and modernity. In 2006 he began a three year ARC funded Discovery Project with Jean-Philippe Deranty on Applying the Ethics of Recognition: Work and the Social Bond. A project on social hope is being supported by an international research fellowship at Queen's University Belfast.

Administrative responsibilities

Contact details

Location: Building W6A Room 735
Phone: (61 2) 9850 8881
Fax: (61 2) 9850 8892
Email: nsmith@scmp.mq.edu.au
Office hours: to be advised

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