Timothy Smiley

<h2 id="life-and-career">Life and career</h2>
Timothy Smiley was born in London, the son of Professor M. T. Smiley and Mrs T. M. Smiley (née Browne).<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2">2</a> He was educated at Ardwyn Grammar School, Aberystwyth, followed by <a href="/facts/Ampleforth_College/I7CEYB4P">Ampleforth College</a>, then went up to <a href="/facts/Clare_College%2c_Cambridge/GQVK3RGX">Clare College, Cambridge</a> to read Mathematics in 1949. He obtained his BA degree in 1952 followed by a PhD in 1956 on natural systems of logic.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3">3</a>
After completing his PhD, he remained at Cambridge on a Research Fellowship at Clare (1955–59), then as a tutor and lecturer in philosophy. He also qualified as a pilot in the Air Ministry and was called to the bar at Gray's Inn.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4">4</a>
In 1980 he was appointed <a href="/facts/Knightbridge_Professor_of_Philosophy/Vna1aqS0">Knightbridge Professor of Philosophy</a>, a post he held until his retirement in 1998. In 1982–83 he was President of the <a href="/facts/Aristotelian_Society/fMURpMPG">Aristotelian Society</a> and in 1984 he was elected a Fellow of the <a href="/facts/British_Academy/RtbyQVwB">British Academy</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5">5</a>
He is the father of the author <a href="/facts/Sophie_Smiley/v4D94DLQ">Sophie Smiley</a>.

<h2 id="work">Work</h2>
Timothy Smiley has published in a wide range of philosophical areas, including Aristotle, definite descriptions, modal logic, multiple conclusion logic, negation and denial, plurals, set-theoretic foundations for mathematics and validity.
In recent years, he has collaborated on a number of articles on plural descriptions with Alex Oliver.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6">6</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7">7</a>
Most recently, Smiley's professional standing was marked by the publication of The Force of Argument: Essays in Honor of Timothy Smiley (T. J. Smiley, Jonathan Lear and Alex Oliver, Routledge, 2010)<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:8" href="#fn:8">8</a>

<h2 id="published-works">Published works</h2>
He has edited and contributed to numerous papers and publications. A full bibliography of his work is included in his Festschrift, The Force of Argument: Essays in Honor of Timothy Smiley.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:9" href="#fn:9">9</a>
Books

<ul><li>Studies in the Philosophy of Logic and Knowledge, (co-edited with Thomas Baldwin.)<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:10" href="#fn:10">10</a></li>
<li>Mathematics and Necessity: Essays in the History of Philosophy<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:11" href="#fn:11">11</a></li>
<li>Philosophical Logic<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:12" href="#fn:12">12</a></li>
<li>Philosophical Dialogues: Plato, Hume, Wittgenstein. Dawes Hicks Lectures on Philosophy<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:13" href="#fn:13">13</a></li>
<li>Smiley and D. J. Shoesmith, Multiple-Conclusion Logic (1978) (see <a href="/facts/Multiple-conclusion_logic/2mbuF2aX">multiple-conclusion logic</a>)<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:14" href="#fn:14">14</a></li>
<li>Smiley and Alex Oliver, Plural Logic (2013)</li></ul>
Selected papers

<ul><li>Sense Without Denotation. Analysis 1960; 20 (6): 125–135. doi: 10.1093/analys/20.6.125</li>
<li>What is syllogism?. Journal of Philosophical Logic 1973 (2): 136–154.</li>
<li>The Theory of Descriptions. (1981) In T. J. Smiley & Thomas Baldwin (eds.), Studies in the Philosophy of Logic and Knowledge. Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press. pp. 131–61.</li>
<li>Aristotle's completeness proof. Ancient Philosophy. 1994 (14): 25–38.</li></ul>

<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>
<ul><li><a href="http://www.clare.cam.ac.uk">Clare College, Cambridge</a></li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1">Clare College: Master and Fellows <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130220200130/http://www.clare.cam.ac.uk/Master-and-Fellows-2/" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20130220200130/http://www.clare.cam.ac.uk/Master-and-Fellows-2/</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:2">"SMILEY, Prof. Timothy John". Who's Who. A & C Black. Retrieved 3 May 2017. <a href="http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U35204" target="_blank">http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U35204</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:3">"Timothy Smiley". Continuum. Retrieved 3 May 2017. <a href="http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100512372" target="_blank">http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100512372</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:4">Oliver, Alex (2005). "Smiley, Timothy (1930–)". In Brown, Stuart (ed.). The Dictionary of Twentieth Century British Philosophers. Thoemmes Press. p. 971. <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:5">"Professor Timothy Smiley FBA". The British Academy. Retrieved 31 January 2025. <a href="https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/fellows/timothy-smiley-FBA/" target="_blank">https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/fellows/timothy-smiley-FBA/</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:6">Philosophical papers, online listing of Plural Descriptions and Many-Valued Functions, Alex Oliver and Timothy Oliver, 2005. Retrieved 30 December 2010 <a href="http://philpapers.org/rec/OLIPDA" target="_blank">http://philpapers.org/rec/OLIPDA</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:7">Philosophical papers, online listing of What Are Sets, and What Are They For?, Alex Oliver and Timothy Oliver, 2006. Retrieved 30 December 2010 <a href="http://philpapers.org/rec/OLIWAS" target="_blank">http://philpapers.org/rec/OLIWAS</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:8">Philosophical papers, online listing of The Force of Argument: Essays in Honor of Timothy Smiley. Retrieved 30 December 2010 <a href="http://philpapers.org/rec/SMITFO-5" target="_blank">http://philpapers.org/rec/SMITFO-5</a> <a href="#fnref:8" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:9">Lear, Jonathan; Oliver, Alex, eds. (2010). The Force of Argument: Essays in Honor of Timothy Smiley. Routledge. pp. 259–260. ISBN 9781138868496. <a href="9781138868496" target="_blank">9781138868496</a> <a href="#fnref:9" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:10">Studies in the Philosophy of Logic and Knowledge, (co-edited with Thomas Baldwin.) Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 2005 Archived 29 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 30 December 2010 <a href="http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780197262917.do" target="_blank">http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780197262917.do</a> <a href="#fnref:10" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:11">"Mathematics and Necessity: Essays in the History of Philosophy". The British Academy. Retrieved 31 January 2025. <a href="https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publishing/proceedings-british-academy/103/" target="_blank">https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publishing/proceedings-british-academy/103/</a> <a href="#fnref:11" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:12">"Philosophical Logic". The British Academy. Retrieved 31 January 2025. <a href="https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publishing/proceedings-british-academy/95/" target="_blank">https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publishing/proceedings-british-academy/95/</a> <a href="#fnref:12" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:13">"Philosophical Dialogues: Plato, Hume, Wittgenstein". The British Academy. Retrieved 31 January 2025. <a href="https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publishing/proceedings-british-academy/85/" target="_blank">https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publishing/proceedings-british-academy/85/</a> <a href="#fnref:13" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:14">Cambridge University Press – publication listing. Multiple Conclusion Logic by D. J. Shoesmith and T. J. Smiley, reprinted 2009. Retrieved 30 December 2010 <a href="http://www.cambridge.org/gb/knowledge/isbn/item2425866/?site_locale=en_GB" target="_blank">http://www.cambridge.org/gb/knowledge/isbn/item2425866/?site_locale=en_GB</a> <a href="#fnref:14" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
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