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Frank Jackson gave the Blackwells Lectures at Brown University in 2006, the Locke Lectures at Oxford University in 1995, the Inaugural David Lewis Memorial Lecture at Princeton University in 2006, and the John Dewey Memorial Lecture at The University of Vermont in 2007.

Research Interests

• Philosophy of Mind
• Philosophy of Language
• Ethics
  

Some recent publications:

Books
The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Philosophy, Oxford University Press, 2005. Pbk edition 2007. Edited with Michael Smith.

Philosophy of Mind and Cognition, Basil Blackwell, 1996; expanded 2nd edition, 2007. Co-author: David Braddon–Mitchell.

Minds, Ethics, and Conditionals: themes from the Philosophy of Frank Jackson, Oxford University Press. Edited by Ian Ravenscroft

Papers and book chapters
'Ramsey Sentences and Avoiding the Sui Generis', in Ramsey's Legacy, ed. Hallvard Lillehammer and D. H. Mellor, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2005, pp. 123 – 136.

'Consciousness', The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Philosophy, ed. Frank Jackson and Michael Smith, Oxford University Press, 2005, ch.12, pp. 310–333.

'Narrow Content and Representation-or Twin Earth Revisited', Proc. American Philosophical Assoc. 77, 2 (Nov. 2003): 55-71.

'Representation, Truth, Realism', Monist, 89, 1 (2006): 50–62.

'What Are Cognitivists Doing When They Do Normative Ethics?', Normativity, Philosophical Issues, supplement to Noûs,15 (2005): 94–106.

'On Ensuring that Physicalism is not a Dual Attribute Theory in Sheep's Clothing', Philosophical Studies, 131 (2006): 227–249.

'The Story of "Fred"' in Content and Modality: Themes from the Philosophy of Robert Stalnaker, ed. Judith Thompson and Alex Byrne, Oxford University Press, 2006, pp. 191–203.

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

'Reference and Description from the Descriptivists' Corner', review discussion of Scott Soames, Reference and Description: The Case against Two-Dimensionalism, Princeton University Press, 2005, Philosophical Books, 48 (2007), 1: 17–26.

'On not Forgetting the Epistemology of Names', Grazer Philosophische Studien 74 (2007): 239–250.

'The Knowledge Argument, Diaphanousness, Representationalism', in Phenomenal Concepts and Phenomenal Knowledge: New Essays on Consciousness and Physicalism, ed. Torin Alter and Sven Walter, Oxford University Press, 2007, pps 52–64.

'The Epistemological Objection to Opaque Teleological Theories of Content', Teleosemantics, ed. Graham Macdonald and David Papineau, Oxford University Press, 2006, pp. 85 – 99.

'Is Belief an Internal State?', symposium on Michael Thau, Consciousness and Cognition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002, Philosophical Studies, 132, 3 (2007): 571–580.

'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.