My research interests are in ontology (in particular mereology), meta-ontology, and philosophical methodology. 

Books (1)

• Smid, J. (2017). Parthood, Identity, and Composition : Studies of Mereology. Dissertation.

Articles (9)

• Proietti, C. & Smid, J. (2019). Mereology and time travel. Philosophical Studies. Springer Netherlands.
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• Smid, J. (2018). Extensionality for Fusions and Pluralities. Synthese. Springer.
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• Smid, J. (2017). 'Identity' as a mereological term. Synthese, 194, 2367-2385. Springer.
• Smid, J. (2017). Material Constitution is Ad Hoc. Erkenntnis, 82, 305-325. Springer.
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• Smid, J. (2017). What does “nothing over and above its parts” actually mean?. Philosophy Compass, 12, 1-13. Blackwell.
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• Smid, J. (2015). A puzzle concerning boundaries, dependence, and parthood. Analytic Philosophy, 56, 169-176. John Wiley & Sons.
• Smid, J. (2015). The ontological parsimony of mereology. Philosophical Studies, 172, 3253-3271. Springer Netherlands.
• Smid, J. & Zenker, F. (2015). Three logicians walk into a bar : A modest proposal for teaching epistemic logic. The Reasoner, 9, 21-22. Centre for Reasoning, University of Kent.
• Smid, J. (2014). Tarski’s one and only concept of truth. Synthese, 191, 3393-3406. Springer.

Reviews (1)

• Smid, J. (2018). Mereology: A Philosophical Introduction. By Giorgio Lando. Philosophical Quarterly, 1-3. Oxford University Press.
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