Nicholas H. Smith

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{{for|the former member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Michigan|Nick Smith (American politician)}}

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{{short description|Australian philosopher}}

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|region = Western philosophy

|era = 21st-century philosophy

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|name = Nicholas Smith

|birth_date = 1962

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|school_tradition = Continental

| institutions = University of Connecticut, Macquarie University

|main_interests = hermeneutics and political philosophy

| thesis_title = Modernity, crisis and critique: an examination of rival philosophical conceptions in the work of Jürgen Habermas and Charles Taylor

| thesis_url = http://theses.gla.ac.uk/1624/

| thesis_year = 1992

| doctoral_advisor = C.F.J. Martin

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| education = University of Glasgow (PhD), University of York (MA), Newcastle University (BA)

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|influences = Jürgen Habermas, Charles Taylor

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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.{{cite journal |last1=Baker |first1=Deane-Peter |title='Condemned to Meaning': A Critical Review of Recent Work on Charles Taylor |journal=Theoria: A Journal of Social and Political Theory |date=2003 |issue=102 |pages=139–146 |jstor=41791395 }}{{cite journal |last1=Levy |first1=N. |title=Strong Hermeneutics: Contingency and Moral Identity |journal=Australasian Journal of Philosophy |date=June 2001 |volume=79 |issue=2 |pages=296–297 |doi=10.1080/713659206 |s2cid=170889762 |language=en |issn=0004-8402}}{{cite journal |last1=Barwell |first1=Ismay |title=Charles Taylor: Meaning Morals and Modernity |journal=Australasian Journal of Philosophy |date=June 2004 |volume=82 |issue=2 |pages=364–365 |doi=10.1080/713659825 |s2cid=170178652 |language=en |issn=0004-8402}}{{cite journal |last1=Anderson |first1=JH |title=Book Note on Nicholas Smith, Strong Hermeneutics: Contingency and Moral Identity |journal=Ethics |date=1999 |volume=109 |language=en|hdl=1874/20322 }}{{cite journal |last1=Redhead |first1=Mark |title=Review of Charles Taylor |journal=Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews |date=2 August 2004 |url=https://ndpr.nd.edu/news/charles-taylor/ |access-date=16 October 2018 |issn=1538-1617}}