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Dr Benedict Smith's Outputs (12)

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.

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.

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, 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.

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.