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Mathew Smith

Graduate Student

Research Interests

At this juncture, I am thinking about complexity—how to explicate it; what relates computational complexity and systems that we describe as “complex” in other sciences; and how we might cash out the concept metaphysically. I see arithmetic and the mind as two paradigmatic examples of complexity-exhibiting things—the former Platonic and well-behaved; the latter dynamic and slippery—what do they both share with respect to our describing them as “complex”?

Education

  • M.Sc. Computer Science, University of Konstanz (2022)
  • Bachelor of Information Technology, Deakin University (2018)

Courses Taught

As Teaching Assistant:

  • PHIL 103 Logic and Reasoning QR II (Fall 2023)

As Grader:

  • PHIL 223 Minds and Machines (Spring 2023)
  • PHIL 202 Symbolic Logic (Fall 2022)