Michael A. Smith (philosopher)
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Michael Andrew Smith (born in Melbourne, Australia on 23 July 1954) is an Australian philosopher who teaches at Princeton University. He taught previously at the University of Oxford, Monash University, and was a member of the Philosophy Program at the Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University. He is the author of several essays in ethics and moral philosophy.
Smith earned his DPhil from Oxford under the direction of Simon Blackburn.
In 2000, Smith's book The Moral Problem (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1994) received The American Philosophical Association's first APA Book Prize for excellence in scholarship.
Smith is considered to be one of the most important philosophers working in meta-ethics, and is one of the main proponents of a Neo-Humean approach to practical reason.
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