Martin Smith is a contemporary analytic epistemologist at the University of Edinburgh, known for his work on the norms of belief, justification, and the epistemology of risk. He is best known for developing the theory of normic support, which offers a distinctive approach to epistemic justification that navigates between probabilistic and certainty-based accounts.
Developed the theory of normic support as an account of epistemic justification
Authored 'Between Probability and Certainty' (2016), a systematic treatment of knowledge and justification
Advanced influential analyses of the lottery and preface paradoxes
Contributed to debates on the relationship between probability, justification, and rational belief
Examined how tolerance of inconsistency in Kyburg-style approaches bears on norms of acceptance
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