Timothy John Smiley FBA (born 13 November 1930) is a British philosopher, appointed Emeritus Knightbridge Professor of Philosophy at Clare College, Cambridge University.
[3] After completing his PhD, he remained at Cambridge on a Research Fellowship at Clare (1955–59), then as a tutor and lecturer in philosophy.
[citation needed] Timothy Smiley has published in a wide range of philosophical areas, including Aristotle, definite descriptions, modal logic, multiple conclusion logic, negation and denial, plurals, set-theoretic foundations for mathematics and validity.
In recent years, he has collaborated on a number of articles on plural descriptions with Alex Oliver.
A full bibliography of his work is included in his Festschrift, The Force of Argument: Essays in Honor of Timothy Smiley.