Michael A. Smith

Quick Facts

Full Name	Michael A. Smith
Occupation	Philosopher
Date Of Birth	Jul 23, 1954(1954-07-23)
Age	70
Birthplace	Melbourne
Country	Australia
Birth City	Victoria
Horoscope	Leo

Michael A. Smith Biography

Michael A. Smith is one of the most popular and richest Philosopher who was born on July 23, 1954 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Michael Andrew Smith (born 23 July 1954) is an Australian philosopher who teaches at Princeton University (since September 2004). 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 a number of important books and articles in moral philosophy. In 2013, he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

In 2000, Smith’s book The Moral Problem (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.

Michael A. Smith Net Worth

Michael A. Smith is one of the richest Philosopher from Australia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Michael A. Smith 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Smith earned his B.A. and M.A. in philosophy at Monash University, while his BPhil and DPhil were acquired at Oxford University under the direction of Simon Blackburn. He has held teaching appointments at various universities, including Wadham College, Oxford (1984), Monash (1984-5; 1989–94), Princeton (1985-9; 2004-present), and the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University (1995-2004).

In The Moral Problem Smith diagnoses a longstanding tension between the apparent objectivity and practicality of moral judgments. The idea of moral objectivity is that “it is a distinctive feature of engaging in moral practice that the participants are concerned to get the answers to moral questions right.” (1994 p. 5) Moral judgments are thought to be practical because they are thought to motivate those who accept them. But according to the Humean theory of motivation, a theory that Smith defends in chapter 4, it is not possible for a belief (a judgement about a matter of fact) to motivate someone without the presence of some antecedently held desire. Thus, if moral judgments are beliefs that motivate, they can only be beliefs about how to get something that we already want. But moral judgments, such as the judgment that murder is wrong, are not judgments about how to get something that we already want. Therefore, either they are not beliefs at all (and are therefore not objective) or they cannot motivate us (and are therefore not practical).

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Noboru Ranked on the list of most popular Philosopher. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Australia. Michael A. Smith celebrates birthday on July 23 of every year.

What does Michael Smith believe?

Moral realism He thus claims to solve the moral problem by giving an account of moral judgments in terms of what one would desire if one were fully rational. As such, he attempts to maintain a form of moral realism while still accounting for the motivational force of moral judgments.

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Does Michael Smith succeed in solving the moral problem?

My overall verdict is that Smith does not succeed in solving the moral problem. 83 (1986): 5-25. different kinds of psychological states and it implies that no belief is necessarily accompanied by a desire. It is possible for any belief to occur without any given desire.