Professor Frank Jackson
Areas of expertise
- Philosophy Of Mind (Excl. Cognition) 220314
- Epistemology 220304
- Philosophy Of Language 220313
- Ethical Theory 220305
- Philosophy 2203
- Metaphysics 220309
Biography
Frank Cameron Jackson AO took mathematics and philosophy at the University of Melbourne and a PhD in philosophy at La Trobe University. He taught at Adelaide for a year (1967) before moving to La Trobe and then to a chair at Monash (1978). He joined the ANU in 1986 as Professor of Philosophy and Head of the Philosophy Program, Research School of Social Sciences. Each Fall from 2007 to 2013, he was a visiting professor at Princeton University.
At ANU Jackson has served as Director of the Institute of Advanced Studies (1998-2001), Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) (2001) and Director of the Research School of Social Sciences (2004-2007). He was appointed as Distinguished Professor at ANU in 2003. He became an emeritus professor on 1 Augsut 2014.
He is a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy, a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities, and the Australian Academy of Social Sciences. He gave the Locke lectures at Oxford in 1995, the Blackwell/Brown lectures in philosophy in 2006, the Gavin David Young lectures at Adelaide in 2012, the Carnap Lectures at Bochum in 2017, was a visiting Leverhulme Professor at Cambridge University in 2011, and was Lim Chong Yah Visiting Professor, National University of Singapore in 2017.
Publications
- Jackson, F 2021, 'Conceptual analysis in metaphysics', in Ricki Bliss and JTM Miller (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Metametaphysics, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, UK and USA, pp. 395-404.
- Jackson, F & Stoljar, D 2021, 'Reflections on Mirror Man', Philosophical Studies, vol. 178, pp. 4227-4237.
- Jackson, F 2021, 'Two-Dimensional Semantics', in Stephen Biggs and Heimir Geirsson (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Linguistic Reference, Routledge, New York, pp. 227-236.
- Jackson, F 2021, 'Conceptual analysis and the coercion thesis', Revus, vol. 45, pp. 1-6.
- Jackson, F 2021, 'Deflationism about the necessary a posteriori and Twin Earth', Synthese, vol. 198, no. 2, pp. 1899ââ¬â1907.
- Jackson, F & Stoljar, D 2020, 'Understanding self-ascription', Mind and Language, vol. 35, no. 2, pp. 141-155.
- Jackson, F 2020, 'The Theory-Theory Approach to Ethics', in A Burgess, H Cappelen & D Plunkett (ed.), Conceptual Engineering and Conceptual Ethics, Oxford University Press, Oxford, United Kingdom, pp. 261-273.
- Jackson, F 2020, 'Consequentialism and action guidingness', in Douglas W. Portmore (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Consequentialism, Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, pp. 331-343.
- Jackson, F 2020, 'Language from a naturalistic perspective', in (ed.), Language and Reality from a Naturalistic Perspective, Springer International Publishing Switzerland, Switzerland, pp. 155-171.
- Jackson, F 2020, 'Learning from what color experiences are good for', Harvard Review of Philosophy, vol. 27, pp. 49-58.
- Jackson, F 2019, 'The Knowledge Argument Meets Representationalism about Colour Experience', in Sam Coleman (ed.), The Knowledge Argument, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 102-117.
- Jackson, F 2019, 'Physicalism and the A Priori', in Adam Pautz and Daniel Stoljar (ed.), Blockheads! Essays on Ned Block's Philosophy of Mind and Consciousness, MIT Press, Massachusetts, pp. 145-166.
- Jackson, F 2018, 'Naturalism and the Error Theory', International Journal for the Study of Skepticism, vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 270-281.
- Jackson, F 2017, 'Response to John Makeham on Xiong Shili', Sophia, vol. 56, no. 3, pp. 519-522.
- Jackson, F 2017, 'Armchair Metaphysics Revisited: The Three Grades of Involvement in Conceptual Analysis', in Giuseppina d'oro and Soren Overgaard (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Philosophical Methodology, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 122-140pp.
- Jackson, F 2017, 'In defence of reductionism in ethics', in Peter Singer (ed.), Does Anything Really Matter? Essays on Parfit on Objectivity, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 195-213pp.
- Jackson, F 2017, 'Only connect', in Russell Blackford and Damien Broderick (ed.), Philosophy's Future The Problem of Philosophical Progress, Wiley Blackwell, UK, pp. 51-60.
- Jackson, F 2017, 'How to be an objectivist about colour', Phenomenology and The Cognitive Sciences, vol. Online, pp. 1-13pp.
- Jackson, F 2017, 'Armchair metaphysics revisited the three grades of involvement in conceptual analysis1', in Giuseppina d'oro and Soren Overgaard (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Philosophical Methodology, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 122-140.
- Jackson, F 2016, 'Popper's Philosophy of Mind', in Jeremy Shearmur and Geoffrey Stokes (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Popper, Cambridge University Press, New York, USA, pp. 269-283.
- Jackson, F 2016, 'What Physicalists Have to Say about the Knowledge Argument', Grazer Philosophische Studien, vol. 93, pp. 511-524.
- Jackson, F & Smith, M 2016, 'The Implementation Problem for Deontology', in Errol Lord & Barry Maguire (ed.), Weighing Reasons, Sheridan Books, USA, pp. 279-293pp.
- Jackson, F 2015, 'Is the distinction between "is" and "ought" ultimate and irreducible?', Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, vol. 2015, no. 3, pp. 52-60.
- Jackson, F 2015, 'Singular Belief', in Robert N. Johnson and Michael Smith (ed.), Passions and Projections Themes from the Philosophy of Simon Blackburn , Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.
- Jackson, F 2014, 'Procrastinate Revisited', Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, vol. 95, no. 4, pp. 634-647.
- Jackson, F 2014, 'Frank Jackson on What Mary Knew', in Edmonds, D. and Warburton, N. (ed.), Philosophy Bites Again, Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, pp. 95-104.
- Jackson, F 2014, 'Mind, Meaning and Knowledge', Analysis, vol. 74, no. 4, pp. 714-721.
- Jackson, F 2013, 'Functionalism, Moral', in Hugh LaFollette (ed.), The International Encyclopedia of Ethics, John Wiley & Sons Inc, United States of America, pp. 2067-2075.
- Jackson, F 2013, 'Autonomy of Ethics', in Hugh LaFollette (ed.), The International Encyclopedia of Ethics, John Wiley & Sons Inc, United States of America, pp. 459-465.
- Jackson, F 2012, 'In defence of the identity theory mark I', in Simone Gozzano and Christopher S. Hill (ed.), New Perspectives on Type Identity: The Mental and the Physical, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 150-166.
- Jackson, F 2012, 'XII - Leibniz's law and the philosophy of mind', Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, vol. 112, no. 3, pp. 269-283.
- Jackson, F 2012, 'Michael Tye on Perceptual Content', Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, vol. 84, no. 1, pp. 199-205.
- Jackson, F 2011, 'On ethical naturalism and the philosophy of language', in Susana Nuccetelli and Gary Seay (ed.), Ethical Naturalism: Current Debates, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 70-88.
- Jackson, F 2011, 'On Gettier Holdouts', Mind and Language, vol. 26, no. 4, pp. 468-481.
- Jackson, F 2011, 'Possibilities for Representation and Credence: Two-Space-ism vs. One-Space-ism', in Andy Egan and Brian Weatherson (ed.), Epistemic Modality, Oxford University Press, New York, US, pp. 131-143.
- Jackson, F 2011, 'Physicalism and the determination of action', in Richard Swinburne (ed.), Free will and modern science, British Academy and Oxford University Press, New York, pp. 47-62.
- Jackson, F 2011. 'On Gettier Holdouts', Mind and Language, 26, 4, pp. 468-481.
- Jackson, F. 2011 'Possibilities for Representation and Credence: Two Space-ism versus One Space-ism' in Epistemic Modality, Oxford University Press, ed. Andy Egan and Brian Weatherson, pp. 131-144
- Jackson, F 2010, 'Representative realism', in Jonathan Dancy, Ernest Sosa, Matthias Steup (ed.), A Companion to Epistemology (2nd ed), Blackwell Publishing Ltd, USA, pp. 702-705.
- Jackson, F 2010, 'The Autonomy of Mind', Philosophical Issues, vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 170-184.
- Jackson, F 2010, Language, Names and Information, Wiley-Blackwell, Malden, MA USA.
- Jackson, F 2009, 'A Priori Biconditionals and Metaphysics', in David Braddon-Mitchell/ Robert Nola (ed.), Conceptual Analysis and Philosophical Naturalism, MIT Press, Cambridge USA, pp. 99-112.
- Jackson, F, Mason, K & Stich, S 2009, 'Folk Psychology and Tacit Theories: A Correspondence between Frank Jackson, and Steve Stich and Kelby Mason', in David Braddon-Mitchell/ Robert Nola (ed.), Conceptual Analysis and Philosophical Naturalism, MIT Press, Cambridge USA, pp. 45-98.
- Jackson, F 2009, 'Replies to My Critics', in Ian Ravenscroft (ed.), Minds, Ethics, and Conditionals: Themes from the Philosophy of Frank Jackson, Oxford Scholarship Online, United Kingdom, pp. 387-474.
- Jackson, F 1998, 'Mind, Philosophy of', in In E. Craig (Ed) (ed.), Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Online, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, United Kingdom, pp. Online.
- Jackson, F 2010, 'Possible worlds and the necessary a posteriori', in Bob Hale and Aviv Hoffmann (ed.), Modality: Metaphysics, Logic, and Epistemology, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 257-266.
- Jackson, F 2010, 'Conceptual analysis for representationalists', in Julia Langkau and Christian Nimtz (ed.), New perspectives on concepts (Vol 81- Grazer Philosophische Studien), Editions Rodopi B.V., Amsterdam, pp. 173-188.
- Jackson, F 2009, 'On the metaphysical implications of some epistemological commonplaces', in Heather Dyke (ed.), From Truth to Reality: New Essays in Logic and Metaphysics, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, New York, USA and Abingdon, UK, pp. 99-111.
- Jackson, F 2009, 'Eliminativism and the Theory of Reference', in Michael Bishop and Dominic Murphy (ed.), Stich and his Critics, Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Chichester, UK, pp. 62-73.
- Jackson, F 2009, 'Thought experiments and possibilities', Analysis, vol. 69, pp. 100-109.
- Jackson, F 2009, 'Primeness, Internalism, Explanation', in Patrick Greenhough and Duncan Prtichard (ed.), Williamson on knowledge, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 109-121.
- Jackson, F 2007, 'Colour for representationalists', Erkenntnis, vol. 66, pp. 169-85.
- Brennan, G, Goodin, R, Jackson, F et al., eds, 2007, Common Minds: Themes from the Philosophy of Philip Pettit, Oxford University Press, United States.
- Jackson, F 2007, 'Is belief an internal state?', Philosophical Studies, vol. 132, pp. 571-580.
- Jackson, F 2007, 'A priori physicalism', in Brian McLaughlin and Jonathan Cohen (ed.), Contemporary debates in philosophy of mind, Wiley-Blackwell, Malden USA, pp. 185-199.
- Goodin, R & Jackson, F 2007, 'Freedom from Fear', Philosophy and Public Affairs, vol. 35, no. 3, pp. 249-265.
- Jackson, F 2006, 'The argument from the persistence of moral disagreement', in Russ Shafer-Landau (ed.), Oxford Studies in Meta-Ethics, Oxford University Press, New York, pp. 75-86.
- Jackson, F 2006, 'Conditionals', in Michael Devitt and Richard Hanley (ed.), Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Language, Blackwell Publishing Ltd, USA, pp. 212-224.
- Jackson, F 2006, 'The Story of "Fred"', in Judith Thomson and Alex Byrne (ed.), Content and Modality, Oxford University Press, UK, pp. 191-203.
- Jackson, F 2006, 'Representation, Truth, Realism', The Monist, vol. 89, no. 1, pp. 50-62.
- Jackson, F 2006, 'The knowledge argument, diaphanousness, representationalism', in Torin Alter and Sven Walter (ed.), Phenomenal concepts and phenomenal knowledge: new essays on consciousness and physicalism, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 52-64.
- Jackson, F & Smith, M 2006, 'Absolutist Moral theories and Uncertainty', Journal of Philosophy, vol. CIII, no. 6, pp. 267-283.
- Jackson, F 2006, 'The Epistemological Objection to Opaque Teleological Theories of Content', in Graham Macdonald and David Papineau (ed.), Teleosemantics, Oxford University Press, UK, pp. 85-99.
- Jackson, F 2006, 'On ensuring that Physicalism is not a dual Attribute Theory in Sheep's Clothing', International Journal of Philosophical Studies, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 227-249.
- Jackson, F 2005, 'Ramsey Sentences and Avoiding the Sui Generis', in Hallvard Lillehammer & D.H. Mellor (ed.), Ramsey�s Legacy, Oxford University Press, UK, pp. 123-136.
- Jackson, F 2005, 'What are Cognitivists Doing When They do Normative Ethics?', Philosophical Issues, vol. 15, pp. 94-106.
- Jackson, F 2005, 'Consciousness', in Frank Jackson and Michael Smith (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Philosophy, Oxford University Press, USA, pp. 310-333.
- Jackson, F 2004, 'La Relation de Rendre-Juste (The Right-Making Relation)', in Denis Vernant (ed.), La Structure du Monde, Objets, Proprietes, Etats de Choses, Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin, France, p. 8.
- Jackson, F 2004, 'On an argument from properties of words to broad content', in Richard Schantz (ed.), The Externalist Challenge, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, pp. 319-328.
- Jackson, F 2004, 'Looking back on the knowledge argument', in Peter Ludlow, Yujin Nagasawa, Daniel Stoljar (ed.), There's Something About Mary: essays on phenomenal consciousness and Frank Jackson's knowledge argument, MIT Press, Cambridge MA, USA, pp. xiv-xix.
- Jackson, F & Priest, G, eds, 2004, Lewisian Themes: The Philosophy of David K Lewis, Oxford University Press, unknown.
- Jackson, F 2004, 'Why We Need A-Intensions', Philosophical Studies, vol. 118, pp. 257-277.
- Jackson, F 2004, 'Representation and Experience', in Hugh Clapin, Phillip Staines, Peter Slezak (ed.), Representation in Mind: New Approaches to Mental Representation, Elsevier, Oxford, p. 18.
- Jackson, F 2003, 'Cognitivism, A Priori Deduction, and Moore', Ethics: an International journal of social, political and legal philosophy, vol. 113, no. 3, pp. 557-575.
- Jackson, F 2003, 'David Kellogg Lewis: Philosopher and Philosopher of Mind', Mind and Language, vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 281-285.
- Jackson, F & Pettit, P 2003, 'Locke, expressivism, conditionals', Analysis, vol. 63, no. 1, pp. 86-91.
- Jackson, F 2003, 'Mind and Illusion', in Anthony O?Hear (ed.), Minds and Persons, Cambridge University Press, UK, pp. 251-272.
- Jackson, F 2003, 'From H2O to water: the relevance to a priori passage', in Hallvard Lillehammer and Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra (ed.), Real Metaphysics, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, London UK, pp. 84-97.
- Jackson, F 2003, 'The knowledge argument', Richmond Journal of Philosophy, vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 6-10.
- Jackson, F 2003, 'Representation and narrow belief', Philosophical Issues, vol. 13, pp. 99-112.
- Jackson, F 2003, 'Narrow content and representationalism - or twin earth revisited: Patrick Romanell Lecture', International Conference on Philosophy in Practice 2001, ed. Henning Herrestad, Anders Holt and Helge Svare, Unipub Forlag, Oslo, Norway, pp. 55-71.
- Braddon-Mitchell, D & Jackson, F 2002, 'A Pyrrhic Victory for Teleonomy', Australasian Journal of Philosophy, vol. 80, no. 3, pp. 372-377.
- Jackson, F 2002, 'Language, Thought and the Epistemic Theory of Vagueness', Language and Communication, vol. 22, pp. 269-279.
- Jackson, F & Pettit, P 2002, 'Response-dependence without Tears', Philosophical Issues, vol. 12, pp. 97-117.
- Jackson, F 2002, 'Critical Notice of Knowledge and its Limits by Timothy Wiliamson', Australasian Journal of Philosophy, vol. 80, no. 4, pp. 516-521.
- Jackson, F 2002, 'From Reduction to Type-Type Identity', Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, vol. 65, no. 3, pp. 644-7.
- Jackson, F 2002, 'Memory traces and representation', Phenomenology and The Cognitive Sciences, vol. 1, no. 4, pp. 409-410.
- Jackson, F 2001, 'Locke-ing onto Content', in Denis Walsh (ed.), Naturalism, Evolution and Mind, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, pp. 127-143.
- Jackson, F 2001, 'What is Expressivism?', Philosophical Books, vol. 42, no. 1, pp. 10-17.
- Jackson, F 2001, 'How Decision Illuminates Assignments of Moral Responsibility', in Ngaire Naffine, Rosemary J. Owens, John Williams (ed.), Intention in Law and Philosophy, Ashgate Publishing Ltd, Aldershot, UK, pp. 19-36.
- Jackson, F 2001, 'D.M. Armstrong', in A.P. Martinich and David Sosa (ed.), A Companion to Analytic Philosophy, Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Oxford, UK, Mass USA, pp. 413-418.
- Chalmers, D & Jackson, F 2001, 'Conceptual Analysis and Reductive Explanation', Philosophical Review, vol. 110, no. 3, pp. 315-361.
- Chalmers, D & Jackson, F 2001, 'Conceptual Analysis and Reductive Explanation', Philosophical Review, vol. 110, no. 3, pp. 315-361.
- Jackson, F 2001, 'Responses', Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, vol. LX11, no. 3, pp. 653-664.
- Jackson, F 2001, 'Precis', Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, vol. LX11, no. 3, pp. 617-624.
- Jackson, F 2000, 'Philosophizing About Colour', in unknown (ed.), Colour Perception: Philosophical, Psychological, Artistic, and Computational Perspectives, Oxford University Press, New York, USA, pp. 152-162.
- Jackson, F 2000, 'Hornsby and Baker on the Physicalist Orthodoxy', Philosophical Explorations, vol. 111, no. 2, pp. 188-92.
- Jackson, F 2000, 'Psychological Explanation and Implicit Theory', Philosophical Explorations, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 83-95.
- Jackson, F 2000, 'Representation, Scepticism and the A Priori', in Peakcocke, Paul Bohghossian and Christopher (ed.), New Essays on The A Priori, Oxford University Press, NY USA, pp. 320-332.
- Jackson, F, Pettit, P & Smith, M 2000, 'Ethical Particularism and Patterns', in Hooker, B.; Little, M.O. (ed.), Moral Particularism, BMJ Publishing Group, Oxford UK, pp. 79-99.
- Jackson, F 1999, 'Non-cognitivism, Normativity, Belief', Ratio, vol. 12, no. 4, pp. 420-35.
- Jackson, F 1999, 'A Slightly Radical Neuron Doctrine', Behavioral and Brain Sciences, vol. 22, no. 5, pp. 840-841.
- Jackson, F & Pettit, P 1999, 'A Problem for Expressivism', Analysis, vol. 58, no. 4, pp. 239-251.
- Jackson, F 1999, 'Casual Roles and Higher-order Properties', Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, vol. 58, pp. 657-661.
Projects and Grants
Grants information is drawn from ARIES. To add or update Projects or Grants information please contact your College Research Office.
- Ethics and Risk (Secondary Investigator)
- Philosophical Progress (Secondary Investigator)
- Belief Singular Versus Beliefs Plural (Primary Investigator)
- Conscious Experience and the Hegemony of Representation (Secondary Investigator)