Nicholas H. Smith

Nicholas Hugh Smith (born 1962) is an Australian philosopher and Honorary Professor of Philosophy at Macquarie University. Smith is known for his research on hermeneutics, political philosophy and Charles Taylor's thought.

Books Strong Hermeneutics: Contingency and Moral Identity, Routledge 1997, Charles Taylor: Meaning, Morals and Modernity, Polity 2002, Critique Today, edited with Jean-Philippe Deranty, Robert Sinnerbrink, and Peter Schmiedgen, Brill 2006 New Philosophies of Labour: Work and the Social Bond, edited with Jean-Philippe Deranty, Brill 2011, Recognition Theory as Social Research: Investigating the Dynamics of Social Conflict, co-edited with Shane O'Neill, Palgrave Macmillan 2012 Perspectives on the Philosophy of Charles Taylor, co-edited with Arto Laitinen, Helsinki, Acta Philosophica Fennica, vol. 71, 2002 Reading McDowell: On Mind and World, Routledge 2002.