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Nicholas J. J. Smith

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Open access Aug 2026

Reopening the Dutch Book

Probabilism is the thesis that the degrees of belief of rational agents behave like Kolmogorovian probabilities. There are quite different lines of argument for probabilism in the literature, including Dutch book arguments, arguments based on representation theorems, and epistemic utility arguments. This paper focuss...

Nicholas J. J. Smith · Noûs · 1 citation

Open access Sep 2026

THE PROOF IS IN THE CHECKING

This paper investigates the question: what is a formal logical proof (in general—as opposed to: what is a formal proof in this or that specific proof system)? I begin by setting out a core conception of formal proof and substantiating its designation as ‘core’. The heart of this conception is that there must be an ef...

Nicholas J. J. Smith · The Review of Symbolic Logic · 0 citations