Professor Barry C. Smith

Projects & collaborations

opheliaderoy — Tue, 01 May 2012 18:41:10 +0000

Co-director and founder of the Centre for the Study of the Senses in the University of London; Partner in the Sensory Research Network (Toronto, MIT, Harvard, Glasgow); Co-organizer of the NYU-IP programme on the Nature of Taste with Paul Boghossian; Member of the Philosophy of Language and Mind network; Work-package leader for Subjectivity on EC 7th Framework Project PETAF (with Aberdeen, Barcelona, Geneva, Paris, St Andrews, Stockholm)

Publications

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Recent publications include: ‘Complexities of Taste and Flavour’ in Nature 486, S6 (21 June 2012) doi:10.1038/486S6a; ‘The Publicity of Meaning and the Interiority of Mind’ in Mind, Meaning and Knowledge. Themes from the Philosophy of Crispin Wright, (ed. A.Coliva) Oxford University Press 2012; ‘Empathie et perception des valeurs’ in Dialogue 2012; ’The Chemical Senses’, Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Perception, Oxford University Press (ed. M. Matthen) forthcoming; ’Relativism, Disagreement and Predicates of Personal Taste’, in Context-dependence, Perspective and Relativity, (eds. F.Recanati. I.Stojanovic, N.Villanueva) De Gruyter 2010; ‘Speech Sounds and the Direct Meeting of Minds’ in Sounds and Perception: new philosophical essays, (eds. M.Nudds and C.O’Callaghan), Oxford University Press 2009.

Research

opheliaderoy — Tue, 01 May 2012 18:28:21 +0000

Barry C Smith is co-director and founder of the Centre for the Study of the Senses. He works mainly in the philosophies of mind, language and psychology where he works on self-knowledge, knowledge of language, the nature of taste and the multisensory perception of flavour. He has written about relativism and contextualism concerning predicates of taste, and he has also written on the emotions, consciousness, and wine. He is the editor of Questions of Taste: the philosophy of wine, Oxford University Press (2007), The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Language, Oxford University Press 2008 (with Ernest Lepore), and Knowing Our Own Minds Oxford University Press 1998 (with Crispin Wright and Cynthia Macdonald).

Media

opheliaderoy — Tue, 01 May 2012 18:26:26 +0000

Writer and presenter of BBC World Service Radio series the Mysteries of the Brain:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/documentaries/2010/09/100914_doc_mysteries_brain.shtml

In Our Time, BBC Radio 4: Wittgenstein:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/iotp/all#playepisode43

In Our Time, BBC Radio 4: Logical Positivism:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00lbsj3

In Our Time, BBC Radio4: Relativism:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p003hyc8

The Guardian Comment: Neuroscience and Philosophy Must Work Together

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/mar/04/consciousness-neuroscience-self-philosophy

Philosophy Bites Podcast on Neuroscience:

http://philosophybites.com/2008/09/barry-smith-on.html

Philosophy Bites Podcast on Philosophy of Wine:

http://philosophybites.com/2007/06/barry-smith-on-.html

Talks

opheliaderoy — Tue, 01 May 2012 18:24:29 +0000

July 2012: Plenary Speaker: Persons and their Brains

June 2012: Speaker: The Philosophy of Wine with Steven Shapin, IJN Paris

June 2012: Speaker: La Nuit des Philosophes, Institut Francaise

May 2012; Speaker at Flavour Day Toronto

April 2012: Invited speaker, Conference on Phenomenal Qualities, University of Hertfordshire

The Institute of Philosophy

opheliaderoy — Tue, 01 May 2012 18:14:32 +0000

The IP plays a key role in promoting and facilitating research in philosophy, and making philosophy more broadly accessible to the general public and other disciplines.
See http://www.philosophy.sas.ac.uk/ for recent and forthcoming conferences and seminars.

Barry C. Smith, Director, Institute of Philosophy, School of Advanced Study, University of London

opheliaderoy — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:48:25 +0000

Barry C. Smith is the director the Institute of Philosophy, School of Advanced Study, University of London

Email : barry.smith (at) sas (dot) ac (dot) uk

Institute of Philosophy
School of Advanced Study
Senate House
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