Staff profile

Professor Frank Jackson

Research Professor

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

School of Communication, Arts and Critical Enquiry

HU2 307, Melbourne (Bundoora)

 

Qualifications

BSc BA (Hons-Melbourne), PhD (La Trobe).

Membership of professional Associations

AAH, ASSA, British Academy

Area of study

Philosophy

Brief Profile

Frank Jackson gave the Locke Lectures at Oxford in 1995 and the Blackwell/Brown Lectures in Philosophy in 2006. He will give the Soochow lectures in 2010. He teaches each fall in the philosophy department at Princeton University. His books include Perception: A Representative Theory, Cambridge University Press, 1977; Conditionals, Basil Blackwell, 1987; From Metaphysics to Ethics: A Defence of Conceptual Analysis, Clarendon Press, 1998.

Research interests

Philosophy of the Mind

- Ethics

- Philosophical Methodology

- Philosophy of Mind and Language

Recent Publications

Philosophy of Mind and Cognition, Basil Blackwell, 2nd edition, 2007. (With David Braddon–Mitchell.)

 

Language, Names and Information, Wiley-Blackwell, to appear 2010.

 

'Absolutist Moral Theories and Uncertainty', Journal of Philosophy, CIII, 6 (2006): 267–283. (With Michael Smith).

'Colour for Representationalists', Erkenntnis, 66 (2007): 169–185.

 

'Freedom from Fear', Philosophy and Public Affairs, 35, 3 (2007): 249–265. (With Robert E. Goodin)

 

'A Priori Physicalism', Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Mind, ed. Brian P. McLaughlin and Jonathan Cohen, Basil Blackwell, 2007, ch. 11, pp. 185–199.

 

'The Argument from the Persistence of Moral Disagreement', Oxford Studies in Metaethics, vol. 3, ed. Russ Shafer-Landau, Oxford University Press, 2008, ch. 3, pp. 75–86.

 

'A Priori Biconditionals and Metaphysics' in Conceptual Analysis and Philosophical Naturalism, ed. David Braddon-Mitchell and Robert Nola, Cambridge MA, MIT Press, 2009, pps 99–112.

 

‘Folk Psychology and Tacit Theories: A Correspondence between Frank Jackson, and Steve Stich and Kelby Mason’, in Conceptual Analysis and Philosophical Naturalism, ed. David Braddon-Mitchell and Robert Nola, Cambridge MA, MIT Press, 2009 (With Kelby Mason and Steve Stich), pps 45–97.

 

'On the Metaphysical Implications of Some Epistemological Commonplaces', From Truth to Reality: New Essays in Logic and Metaphysics, ed. Heather Dyke, Routledge, 2009, pp. 99–111.

 

'Replies to My Critics' in Minds, Ethics and Conditionals: Themes from the Philosophy of Frank Jackson, ed. Ian Ravenscroft, Oxford University Press, 2009, pp. 387–474.

 

'Thought Experiments and Possibilities', in a symposium on Timothy Williamson, The Philosophy of Philosophy, Blackwell, 2007, Analysis, 69 (2009): 100-109. ISSN 0003-2638

 

‘Primeness, Internalism, Explanation’ in Williamson on Knowledge, ed. Patrick Greenough and Duncan Pritchard, Oxford University Press, 2009, pp. 109–121.

Research projects

Philosophical Methodology, Perception.