Frank Jackson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3597552 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Frank Jackson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Frank |
| FAMILY NAME | Jackson |
| SIGNATURE | JACKSON F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian National University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2310-9132 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 66 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 394 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 64 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Exploring arts engagement among Black Americans: Insights on flourishing and barriers to participation from a mixed-methods survey
Moral Functionalism
Sometimes we go from information couched in nonmoral terms to verdicts couched in moral terms. Sometimes we move back and forth between characterizations couched in moral terms. Sometimes our opinions about how things are, expressed in moral terms, lead us to action. Moral functionalism treats this tripartite structure of input clauses, internal role clauses, and output clauses as the key to understanding moral language. This chapter explains how…
What is Consciousness?: A Debate
What is consciousness and why is it so philosophically and scientifically puzzling? For many years philosophers approached this question assuming a standard physicalist framework on which consciousness can be explained by contemporary physics, biology, neuroscience, and cognitive science. This book is a debate between two philosophers who are united in their rejection of this kind of "standard" physicalism - but who differ sharply in what lesson …
Reflections on Mirror Man
Deflationism about the necessary a posteriori and Twin Earth
Consequentialism and Action Guidingness
Consequentialism says that consequences settle what ought to be done. What does this imply for how we should decide, on some given occasion, what ought to be done in the light of our beliefs about the consequences of the actions available to us, our options? We explore the issues generated by the fact that typically there is substantial uncertainty about the consequences of the actions we need to choose between—we perforce must rely on the subjec…
Reference and Representation: Philosophical Aspects
Michael Tye on Perceptual Content
Thought Experiments and Possibilities
1. Reflecting on possible cases can be very valuable in differing ways. Sometimes it makes clear a consequence of a theory, a consequence that then plays an important role in debates about the theory. Utilitarians who favour maximising average happiness confront utilitarians who favour maximising total happiness with possible cases where there are enormously many sentient beings whose lives are barely worth living. Sometimes reflecting on possibl…
Common Minds: Themes from the Philosophy of Philip Pettit
During a career spanning over thirty years Philip Pettit has made seminal contributions in moral philosophy, political philosophy, philosophy of the social sciences, philosophy of mind and action, and metaphysics. His many contributions would be remarkable enough in themselves, but they are made all the more remarkable by the ways in which Pettit connects them with each other. Pettit holds that the lessons learned when thinking about problems in …
The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Philosophy
The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Philosophy is the definitive guide to what is happening in the lively and fascinating subject of contemporary philosophy. More than thirty distinguished scholars contribute incisive and up-to-date critical surveys of the principal areas of research into this subject. The coverage is broad, with sections devoted to moral philosophy, social and political philosophy, philosophy of mind and action, philosophy of la…
Freedom from Fear
Representation, Truth, Realism
Journal Article Representation, Truth, Realism Get access Frank Jackson Frank Jackson The Australian National University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar The Monist, Volume 89, Issue 1, 1 January 2006, Pages 50–62, https://doi.org/10.5840/monist200689133 Published: 15 November 2014
The Oxford handbook of contemporary philosophy
Corrupting the Youth: A History of Philosophy in Australia
Book Information Corrupting the Youth: A History of Philosophy in Australia. Corrupting the Youth: A History of Philosophy in Australia James Franklin, (Sydney : Macleay Press, 2003), 465, AU$59.95 By James Franklin. Macleay Press. Sydney. Pp. 465. AU$59.95
Mind and Illusion
Much of the contemporary debate in the philosophy of mind is concerned with the clash between certain strongly held intuitions and what science tells us about the mind and its relation to the world. What science tells us about the mind points strongly towards some version or other of physicalism. The intuitions, in one way or another, suggest that there is something seriously incomplete about any purely physical story about the mind.
Cognitivism, A Priori Deduction, and Moore
Mind, Method and Conditionals: Selected Papers
First Published in 2004. This collection of essays brings together some of Jackson's most influential publications on mind, action, conditionals, method in metaphysics, ethics and induction. The papers have been revised for this volume and the collection also includes additional material by ay of endnotes and corrections. It also includes two new postscripts- one on conditionals and one disavowing the knowledge argument.
From Recduction to Type‐ Type Identity
Language, thought and the epistemic theory of vagueness
Commentary on Frank Jackson's From Metaphysics to Ethics
Conceptual Analysis and Reductive Explanation
Ethics, Supervenience and Ramsey Sentences
In "From Metaphysics to Ethics", Frank Jackson presents an impressively\nsystematic conception of modal reality and its relation to our thought. His\naccount of ethics is a test case for this conception. I will argue that Jackson's reasoning for his conclusions about ethics is unsound
Responses
Metaphysics Without Conceptual Analysis
Epiphenomenal Qualia
Conceptual Analysis and Reductive Explanation
Research Article| July 01 2001 Conceptual Analysis and Reductive Explanation David J. Chalmers; David J. Chalmers Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Frank Jackson Frank Jackson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2001) 110 (3): 315–360. https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-110-3-315 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation…
Oughts, Options, and Actualism
W Am Be often approach the question of what to do by identifying a set of alternative possible actions available to us, our options, and designating the best as what we ought to do. Questions can be raised about this approach; for instance, what to say about supererogation. This paper, though, is concerned with two problems that arise within the option approach, and which remain however questions about that approach are resolved. It can hardly be…
On Assertion and Indicative Conditionals
T he circumstances in which it is natural to assert the ordinary indicative conditional If P then are those in which it is natural to assert Either not P or, P and and conversely. For instance, the circumstances in which it is natural to assert If it rains, the match will be cancelled are precisely those in which it is natural to assert Either it won't rain or, it will and the match will be cancelled. Similarly, the circumstances in which it is n…
Freedom from Fear
Jackson's Empirical Assumptions
Moral Functionalism and Moral Motivation
Frank Jackson, Philip Pettit; Moral Functionalism and Moral Motivation, The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 45, Issue 178, 1 January 1995, Pages 20–40, htt
Causation in the Philosophy of Mind
Causation has come to play an increasingly important role in the philosophy of mind, reaching its apotheosis in the doctrine that to be a mental state of kind K is to fill the causal role definitive of that kind of mental state: the typology of mental states is a typology of causal roles. However, ironically, there is, from this very functionalist perspective, a problem about how to understand the causal role of mental properties, those propertie…
Cognitivism, A Priori Deduction, and Moore
Conceptual Analysis and Reductive Explanation
Responses
Corrupting the Youth: A History of Philosophy in Australia
Book Information Corrupting the Youth: A History of Philosophy in Australia. Corrupting the Youth: A History of Philosophy in Australia James Franklin, (Sydney : Macleay Press, 2003), 465, AU$59.95 By James Franklin. Macleay Press. Sydney. Pp. 465. AU$59.95
Causal Roles and Higher-Order Properties
Relative Simultaneity in the Special Relativity
In this paper a method is proposed for empirically determining simultaneity at a distance within the special theory of relativity. It is argued that this method is independent of Einstein's signalling method and provides a basis for denying the conventionality of distant simultaneity
Defining the Autonomy of Ethics
From Recduction to Type‐ Type Identity
Ethics, Supervenience and Ramsey Sentences
In "From Metaphysics to Ethics", Frank Jackson presents an impressively\nsystematic conception of modal reality and its relation to our thought. His\naccount of ethics is a test case for this conception. I will argue that Jackson's reasoning for his conclusions about ethics is unsound
Moral Functionalis, Supervenience and Reductionism
Frank Jackson, Philip Pettit; Moral Functionalism, Supervenience and Reductionism, The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 46, Issue 182, 1 January 1996, Pages
Appendix A (For Philosophers)
Dennett's book' is full of insightful remarks about the mind drawing on his intimidating breadth of knowledge in psychology, information science, artificial intelligence, and neuroscience. He reminds us, yet again, of how issues in the philosophy of mind can be illuminated by ways of thinking characteristic of disciplines located outside Humanities' Faculties. There is no question but that Dennett casts a great deal of light on consciousness in p…
Interactionism Revived
Not peer-reviewed
A Reply to “Induction and Objectivity”
In “Induction and Objectivity” [1], F. John Clendinnen puts forwards a vindication of induction. I wish to argue that the vindication fails. As Clendinnen's argument is complex and presents certain difficulties it is necessary and only fair to quote his summary of it ([1], p. 218). “I shall attempt to vindicate induction by showing that it is the only possible way of predicting that is objective, and further that, while objectivity is not a neces…
Reply to A Response
While disagreeing with some of the detail of my argument in [2] F. John Clendinnen accepts its conclusion, namely, that the vindication he proposed in [1] fails. I will thus confine myself to saying, very briefly, why I think the new vindication of induction that he sketches in [3] also fails
The Transitivity of Entailment
Journal Article The Transitivity of Entailment Get access Frank Jackson Frank Jackson La Trobe University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 20, Issue 81, October 1970, Pages 385–388, https://doi.org/10.2307/2217658 Published: 01 October 1970
Indefinite probability statements
Defining the Autonomy of Ethics
Relative Simultaneity in the Special Relativity
In this paper a method is proposed for empirically determining simultaneity at a distance within the special theory of relativity. It is argued that this method is independent of Einstein's signalling method and provides a basis for denying the conventionality of distant simultaneity
Perception
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Perception. BY Frank Jackson. (Cambridge: Cambridgo University press. 1977. Pp. 180. Price £6.50) Ian Tipton Ian Tipton Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 28, Issue 112, July 1978, Pages 275–277, https://doi.org/10.2307/2218853 Published: 01 July 1978
A Reply to Torretti and Giannoni
Robert Torretti's objection is verificationism writ large. We reply that verificationism is to be rejected. Carlo Giannoni's objection is that our test for tilting fails because the rod might tilt and yet no current flow through its mid-point. We reply that nevertheless we can test for tilting because there would still be differences detectable with a glavanometer
On Assertion and Indicative Conditionals
T he circumstances in which it is natural to assert the ordinary indicative conditional If P then are those in which it is natural to assert Either not P or, P and and conversely. For instance, the circumstances in which it is natural to assert If it rains, the match will be cancelled are precisely those in which it is natural to assert Either it won't rain or, it will and the match will be cancelled. Similarly, the circumstances in which it is n…
Ontological Commitment and Paraphrase
It is persons who are ontologically committed. But a person is not ontologically committed by virtue of his character, his height, his social standing or whatever, but by virtue of the sentences he assents to. Hence we should look to sentences for a criterion of ontological commitment. This is precisely what is done by advocates of what I will call the Referential theory. In this paper I argue that the Referential theory faces serious objections …
Interactionism Revived
Not peer-reviewed
History Workshop Journal
HISTORY WORKSHOP JOURNAL Get access Frank Jackson Frank Jackson 9 Brunel Walk, Braemar Road, N15 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 9, Issue 1, SPRING 1980, Pages 195-b–195, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/9.1.195-b Published: 01 March 1980
VIII—Conditionals and Possibilia
VIII—Conditionals and Possibilia Get access Frank Jackson Frank Jackson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Volume 81, Issue 1, 1 June 1981, Pages 125–138, https://doi.org/10.1093/aristotelian/81.1.125 Published: 08 September 2015
Epiphenomenal Qualia
Brain and Mind
Peer-reviewed
Causal origin and evidence
Peer-reviewed
What Mary Didn't Know
Oughts, Options, and Actualism
W Am Be often approach the question of what to do by identifying a set of alternative possible actions available to us, our options, and designating the best as what we ought to do. Questions can be raised about this approach; for instance, what to say about supererogation. This paper, though, is concerned with two problems that arise within the option approach, and which remain however questions about that approach are resolved. It can hardly be…
A question about rest and motion
Identity, Cause, and Mind: Philosophical Essays
Since the appearance of a widely influential book, Self-Knowledge and Self-ldentity, Sydney Shoemaker has continued to work on a series of interrelated issues in the philosophy of mind and metaphysics. This volume contains a collection of the most important essays he has published since then. The topics that he deals with here include, among others, the nature of personal and other forms of identity, the relation of time to change, the nature of …
Conditionals
Journal Article Conditionals Get access Frank JacksonConditionals. (Oxford: Blackwell, 1988. Pp. vi + 148. Price £19.50.) David Papineau David Papineau University of Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 39, Issue 157, October 1989, Pages 493–498, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219834 Published: 01 October 1989
Conditionals
Irrationality
Causation in the Philosophy of Mind
Causation has come to play an increasingly important role in the philosophy of mind, reaching its apotheosis in the doctrine that to be a mental state of kind K is to fill the causal role definitive of that kind of mental state: the typology of mental states is a typology of causal roles. However, ironically, there is, from this very functionalist perspective, a problem about how to understand the causal role of mental properties, those propertie…
Decision-Theoretic Consequentialism and the Nearest and Dearest Objection
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