Em. Prof. J.J.C. Smart AC
Email: John.Smart@arts.monash.edu.au
Phone: +61 3 990 59774
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Academic Background
- Hon.D.Litt., University of Glasgow, 2001
- Hon.D.Litt., La Trobe University, 1992
- Hon.D.Litt., University of St.Andrews, 1983
- B.Phil.Queen's College, Oxford, 1948
- M.A. Glasgow University, 1946.
Career Highlights
Honorary Research Fellow, Monash University
Jemison Visiting Professor in Humanities, University of Alabama, Winter quarter, 1990
Gavin David Young Lecturer, University of Adelaide, 1987
Emeritus Professor, Australian National University since 1986
Visiting Bonsall Professor of Humanities in the Dept. of Philosophy, Stanford, Spring quarter, 1982
Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, 1979
Professor of Philosophy, RSSS, Australian National University, 1976 - 85
Emeritus Professor, University of Adelaide since 1972
Reader in Philosophy, La Trobe University, 1972 - 76
Visiting Professor of Philosophy, Yale University, Spring term 1964
Visiting Professor of Philosophy, Harvard University, Fall term 1963
Visiting Professor of Philosophy, Princeton University, Fall term 1957
Hughes Professor of Philosophy, University of Adelaide, 1950 - 72
Junior Research Fellow, Corpus Christi College, Oxford, 1948 - 50.
Also
Elected Honorary Fellow, Corpus Christi College, Oxford, 1991
Companion in the General Division of the Order of Australia, 1990
Member of Institut International de Philosophie, 1971 - 96
Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities since 1969
At various times, member of editorial boards of American Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophy of Science , Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Behaviorism , Synthese.
Research Interests
Metaphysics, Philosophy of Science, Ethics
Recent Publications
- 'Ockhamist Comments on Strawson', Journal of Consciousness Studies, 13, (2006), 58 - 62.
- 'Metaphysical Illusions', Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 84,(2006), 167 - 175.
- 'Comments on Hodgson', Journal of Consciousness Studies, 12,(2005), 58 - 64.
- 'The Brain in a Vat', Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 35, (2004), 237 - 247.
- 'Consciousness and Awareness', Journal of Consciousness Studies, 11,(2004), 41 - 50.
- 'Atheism and Agnosticism' in the Stanford Electronic Dictionary of Philosophy, (2004).
- Atheism and Theism (with J.J. Haldane), 2nd ed., Oxford, Blackwell, 2003.
- 'Critical Notice of David Stove's On Enlightenment and Scientific Irrationalism', Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 82, (2003), 429 - 433.
- 'The Compatibility of Direct Realism with the Scientific Account of Perception; Comment on Mark Crooks', The Journal of Mind and Behavior . 23 (2002). 239 - 244.
- Review of John Leslie, Infinite Minds: A Philosophical Cosmology in Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 80, (2002), 522 - 524.
- Obituary of David Kellogg Lewis, Proceedings of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, (2001), 81 - 83.
- 'Might you not have been you?', Philosophy Now, (Dec.2000/Jan.2001), 17.