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John Jamieson Carswell Smart AC FAHA (16 September 1920 – 6 October 2012) was a British-Australian philosopher who was appointed as an Emeritus Professor by the Australian National University. He worked in the fields of metaphysics , philosophy of science , philosophy of mind , philosophy of religion , and political philosophy .
Professor J.J.C. (Jack) Smart, AC, (Companion of the Order of Australia), died on October 6th 2012, aged 92. He was a Scot whose father was an eminent astronomer. He went to Oxford as a student, where he was influenced by Gilbert Ryle and his behaviourist approach in philosophy of mind.
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Jan 25, 2021 · This piece is broken down into three main parts: first laying out the previous other physicalist theories, the second Smart posing the hypothesis of sensations as merely brain processes (and ...
Oct 6, 2012 · J.J.C. Smart is the author of Utilitarianism (3.63 avg rating, 300 ratings, 27 reviews, published 1973), Atheism and Theism (4.07 avg rating, 30 ratings,...
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Smart was one of the early philosophers to propose a pure physicalist solution to the mind-body problem by identifying the mind and the brain, reducing the mind to the brain, and making the "mind" an epiphenomenon or illusion.
Jan 12, 2000 · How would a physicalist identity theorist deal with this? The answer (Smart 1959) is that the properties of experiences are ‘topic neutral’. Smart adapted the words ‘topic-neutral’ from Ryle, who used them to characterise words such as ‘if, ‘or’, ‘and’, ‘not’, ‘because’.
