Dr Benedict Smith's Outputs (16)

Hume and Liberal Naturalism (2022)
Book Chapter
Smith, B. (2022). Hume and Liberal Naturalism. In M. De Caro, & D. Macarthur (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Liberal Naturalism. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351209472

The work of David Hume (1711–1776) is regarded as one of the most influential articulations of a naturalistic approach in philosophy, interpreted by many as a key inspiration for naturalist projects in a range of areas. Hume's ambition was to investi... Read More about Hume and Liberal Naturalism.

Hume on Belief and Vindicatory Explanations (2019)
Journal Article
Smith, B. (2019). Hume on Belief and Vindicatory Explanations. Philosophy, 94(2), 313-337. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0031819119000111

Hume's account of belief is understood to be inspired by allegedly incompatible motivations, one descriptive and expressing Hume's naturalism, the other normative and expressing Hume's epistemological aims. This understanding assumes a particular way... Read More about Hume on Belief and Vindicatory Explanations.

Wittgenstein, Hume and Naturalism (2017)
Book Chapter
Smith, B. (2017). Wittgenstein, Hume and Naturalism. In Wittgenstein and naturalism. Routledge

Wittgenstein, Naturalism, and Scientism (2017)
Book Chapter
Smith, B. (2017). Wittgenstein, Naturalism, and Scientism. In J. Beale, & I. Kidd (Eds.), Wittgenstein and scientism (209-224). Routledge

Naturalism, Experience, and Hume’s ‘Science of Human Nature’ (2016)
Journal Article
Smith, B. (2016). Naturalism, Experience, and Hume’s ‘Science of Human Nature’. International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 24(3), 310-323. https://doi.org/10.1080/09672559.2016.1176389

A standard interpretation of Hume’s naturalism is that it paved the way for a scientistic and ‘disenchanted’ conception of the world. My aim in this paper is to show that this is a restrictive reading of Hume, and it obscures a different and profitab... Read More about Naturalism, Experience, and Hume’s ‘Science of Human Nature’.

What is a “sense of foreshortened future?” A phenomenological study of trauma, trust, and time (2014)
Journal Article
Ratcliffe, M., Ruddell, M., & Smith, B. (2014). What is a “sense of foreshortened future?” A phenomenological study of trauma, trust, and time. Frontiers in Psychology, 5, Article 1026. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01026

One of the symptoms of trauma is said to be a “sense of foreshortened future.” Without further qualification, it is not clear how to interpret this. In this paper, we offer a phenomenological account of what the experience consists of. To do so, we f... Read More about What is a “sense of foreshortened future?” A phenomenological study of trauma, trust, and time.

A Bad Case of the Flu? The Comparative Phenomenology of Depression and Somatic Illness (2013)
Journal Article
Ratcliffe, M., Broome, M., Smith, B., & Bowden, H. (2013). A Bad Case of the Flu? The Comparative Phenomenology of Depression and Somatic Illness. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 20(7-8),

Depression and Motivation (2012)
Journal Article
Smith, B. (2012). Depression and Motivation. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 12(4), 615-635. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11097-012-9264-0

Among the characteristic features of depression is a diminishment in or lack of action and motivation. In this paper, I consider a dominant philosophical account which purports to explain this lack of action or motivation. This approach comes in diff... Read More about Depression and Motivation.

What Mystery of Moral Experience? (2012)
Journal Article
Smith, B. (2012). What Mystery of Moral Experience?. Journal of Value Inquiry, 46(2), 197-207. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10790-012-9334-0

According to Michael Smith, a “central organizing problem” in contemporary meta-ethics concerns a particular way in which our moral thought and practice is or at least appears mysterious. Our “ordinary moral practice” and the “facts of ordinary moral... Read More about What Mystery of Moral Experience?.

Particularism and the Space of Moral Reasons (2011)
Book
Smith, B. (2011). Particularism and the Space of Moral Reasons. Palgrave Macmillan

Knowledge and the Justification of Values (2009)
Journal Article
Smith, B. (2009). Knowledge and the Justification of Values. Philosophy, Psychiatry and Psychology, 15(2),

Traditional Moral Knowledge and Experience of the World (2008)
Journal Article
Smith, B. (2008). Traditional Moral Knowledge and Experience of the World

Particularism, Perception and Judgement (2006)
Journal Article
Smith, B. (2006). Particularism, Perception and Judgement. Acta Analytica, 21(2), 12-29. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12136-006-1001-2

According to the most detailed articulation and defence of moral particularism, it is a metaphysical doctrine about the nature of reasons. This paper addresses aspects of particularist epistemology. In rejecting the existence and efficacy of principl... Read More about Particularism, Perception and Judgement.

Reasons, Responsibility and Fiction (2006)
Journal Article
Smith, B. (2006). Reasons, Responsibility and Fiction. Philosophy, Psychiatry and Psychology, 13(2),

Analogy in Moral Deliberation: The Role of Imagination and Theory in Ethics (2002)
Journal Article
Smith, B. (2002). Analogy in Moral Deliberation: The Role of Imagination and Theory in Ethics. Journal of Medical Ethics, 28(4), 244-248. https://doi.org/10.1136/jme.28.4.244

This paper develops themes addressed in an article by Eric Wiland in the Journal of Medical Ethics 2000;26:466–8, where he aims to contribute to the debate concerning the moral status of abortion, and to emphasise the importance of analogies in moral... Read More about Analogy in Moral Deliberation: The Role of Imagination and Theory in Ethics.

Possible Worlds and Moral Philosophy (2001)
Journal Article
Smith, B. (2001). Possible Worlds and Moral Philosophy