Barry C. Smith is a British

philosopher Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, Value (ethics and social sciences), value, mind, and language. It is a rational an ...

and director of the Institute of Philosophy at the School of Advanced Study at

University of London The University of London (UoL; abbreviated as Lond or more rarely Londin in Post-nominal letters, post-nominals) is a collegiate university, federal Public university, public research university located in London, England, United Kingdom. The ...

. He also co-directs the Centre for the Study of the Senses. He has previously been a visiting professor at the

University of California at Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California), is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California, United States. Founded in 1868 and named after the Anglo-Irish philosopher George Berkele ...

and at the

École Normale Supérieure École or Ecole may refer to: * an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by Secondary education in France, secondary education establishments (collège and lycée) * École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing i ...

, and was the writer and presenter of the

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radio series, ''The Mysteries of the Brain''. He has also done several interviews with

Philosophy Bites ''Philosophy Bites'' is a podcast series featuring philosophers being interviewed for 15–20 minutes on a specific topic. The series, which has been running since 2007, is hosted by Nigel Warburton, freelance lecturer, and David Edmonds, and ha ...

Selected publications

"Understanding Language"
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Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society The Aristotelian Society for the Systematic Study of Philosophy, more generally known as the Aristotelian Society, is a philosophical society in London. History Aristotelian Society was founded at a meeting on 19 April 1880, at 17 Bloomsbury Squar ...

'', New Series, Vol. 92 (1992), pp. 109–141. * ''Knowing Our Own Minds''. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2000. (Edited with Crispin Wright and Cynthia Macdonald) * ''The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Language''. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2006. (Edited with

Ernest Lepore Ernest or Ernie Lepore (born November 20, 1950) is an American philosopher and cognitive scientist and a professor of philosophy at Rutgers University. Education and career Lepore earned his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1978, and ...

) * ''Realism and Anti-Realism: An Enquiry into meaning, truth and objectivity''. Polity, 2007. * ''Questions of Taste: The Philosophy of Wine''. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2009. (Edited)

References

External links

Barry C. Smith's websiteBarry C. Smith's Twitter account
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