Nicholas Smith
BA Newcastle (UK), MA York (UK), PhD Glas.
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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.
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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
- Deane-Peter Baker, ‘Reformed Epistemology and Charles Taylor’s Phenomenology of Morals’, PhD, 2006
- Dale Tweedie, ‘Economics in Social Policy: a Philosophical Analysis’, Masters by Research, 2005
- Damion Buterin, ‘Between Reason and Voluntarism: Boehme, Scotus, Fichte, Hegel’, PhD 2004, awarded VC's Commendation
- Wendy Double, 'The Role of Imagination and Reflective Critique in the Philosophical Anthropology of Paul Ricoeur’, masters by research, 2003
- Peter Schmiedgen, ‘In Excess of the Typical: Towards a Phenomenology of Alterity’, PhD 2001
Current Students
- Dale Tweedie, PhD candidate, Topic: Work and the Philosophy of Economics
- Michaela Baker, PhD candidate, Topic: the Self and Self-Knowledge
- Ruth Cox, PhD candidate, Topic: Applying the Ethics of Recognition
- Andrew Montin, PhD candidate, Topic: Systems Theory and Critical Theory
Selected publications
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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
- Head of Department (from 28 April 2008)
- member of the University's Higher Degree by Research Examination Committee
- member of Research Training Panel of the University's Research Policy and Management Committee
- member of Philosophy Research Committee
- member of Philosophy Postgraduate Committee
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