Timothy John Smiley FBA (born 13 November 1930) is a British philosopher, appointed Emeritus Knightbridge Professor of Philosophy at Clare College, Cambridge University.
Smiley was appointed Knightbridge Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge in 1980 and elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1984.
In recent years, he has collaborated on a number of articles on plural descriptions with Alex Oliver.
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)
He is the father of the author Sophie Smiley.
Published works
He has edited and contributed to numerous papers and publications including:
- Studies in the Philosophy of Logic and Knowledge, (co-edited with Thomas Baldwin.)
- Mathematics and Necessity: Essays in the History of Philosophy
- Philosophical Logic
- Philosophical Dialogues: Plato, Hume, Wittgenstein. Dawes Hicks Lectures on Philosophy
- Smiley and D. J. Shoesmith are the authors of Multiple-Conclusion Logic (1978) (see multiple-conclusion logic)
- Smiley and Alex Oliver are the authors of Plural Logic (2013) (see Pleural Logic)
- Studies in the Philosophy of Logic and Knowledge, (co-edited with Thomas Baldwin.) Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 2005 Retrieved 30 December 2010
- Mathematics and Necessity: Essays in the History of Philosophy. Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 2000 Retrieved 30 December 2010
- Philosophical Logic. Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 1998 Retrieved 30 December 2010
- Philosophical Dialogues: Plato, Hume, Wittgenstein. Dawes Hicks Lectures on Philosophy. Reprint, Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 1996 Retrieved 30 December 2010
- Cambridge University Press - publication listing. Multiple Conclusion Logic by D. J. Shoesmith and T. J. Smiley, reprinted 2009 Retrieved 30 December 2010
- Oxford University Press. Pleural Logic by Alex Oliver and Timothy Smiley, 2013 Retrieved 19 July 2016