William Herbert Newton-Smith (born May 25, 1943) is an Anglo-Canadian philosopher of science.

His undergraduate degree from Queen's University

Queen's University

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 was in Mathematics and Philosophy, in 1966. He took an MA from Cornell University

Cornell University

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 in Philosophy, in 1968, and a DPhil in philosophy from Balliol College

Balliol College, Oxford

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, Oxford

University of Oxford

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, in 1974. His working life before retirement was mainly as a Fellow of Balliol.

He is married to Canadian journalist Nancy Durham

Nancy Durham

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 and is the father of Toronto defence lawyer Apple Newton-Smith and economist Rain Newton-Smith.

His first wife was the Canadian author Doris Heffron.

Works

• The Structure of Time (1980)
• The Rationality of Science (1981)
• Logic (1984)
• Modelling the Mind (1990) editor with K. V. Wilkes
  Kathy Wilkes
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• Popper in China (1992) editor with J. Tianji
• The Companion to the Philosophy of Science (2000)