Prof. Barry Smith

Professor Barry C Smith is Director of the Institute of Philosophy at the University of London’s School of Advanced, where he currently co-directs a Centre for the Study of the Senses. Before that he was Head of the School of Philosophy at Birkbeck College and held visiting professorships at the University of Califonia at Berkeley and the Ecole Normale Superiéure in Paris. He has written extensively on philosophy of mind and language and 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). He has appeared frequently on In Our Time  and Nightwaves, and he wrote and presented a four-part series for the BBC World Service called The Mysteries of the Brian. He is an associate member of the Institute Jean Nicod in Paris.

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