I am a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame Australia in Sydney.
I work mainly in epistemology, ethics, and decision theory.
I completed my PhD at the University of Sydney in 2024 under Brian Hedden, Mark Colyvan, and Philip Pettit. My thesis was examined by Daniel Greco and Jessica Brown. I also have a BA and MPhil from USYD, and have been a visiting graduate student at Princeton University, King’s College London, and the University of Chicago.
Here’s my CV.
You can contact me at timjsmartt@gmail.com.
Papers
Scepticism about Epistemic Blame
Philosophical Studies vol. 180, no. 5–6 (2023): 1813–1828
Reply from Cameron Boult
Reconsidering the Rule of Consideration: Probabilistic Knowledge and Legal Proof
Episteme vol. 19, no. 2 (2022): 303–318
Arbitrariness Arguments Against Temporal Discounting
Australasian Philosophical Review vol. 5, no. 3 (2021): 302–308
Reply from Craig Callender
Book Reviews
Review of Probabilistic Knowledge by Sarah Moss
Ethics vol. 129, no. 2 (2019): 430–438
Teaching Articles
Knowing Your Own Mind: René Descartes’ Meditations on First Philosophy, Meditation 2
The Philosophy Teaching Library (2024), edited by Wes Siscoe
Media
Where There's Smoke, There's Conspiracy Theorists (with Mark Colyvan and Hannah Tierney)
ABC Religion & Ethics. November 3, 2020.
Compulsory COVID-19 Vaccination Makes Sense
Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, Brisbane Times, and WA Today. August 10, 2020.