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John Jamieson Carswell "Jack" Smart (16 de septiembre de 1920 – 6 de octubre de 2012) [1] fue un filósofo australiano y académico y fue nombrado como Profesor Emérito de la Universidad Nacional de Australia.
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 .
John Jamieson Carswell "Jack" Smart fue un filósofo australiano y académico y fue nombrado como Profesor Emérito de la Universidad Nacional de Australia. Trabajó en los campos de la metafísica, la filosofía de la ciencia, la filosofía de la mente, filosofía de la religión y la filosofía política.
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.
Another utilitarian, the Australian philosopher J.J.C. Smart, defended hedonistic utilitarianism by asserting that he took a favourable attitude toward making the surplus of happiness over misery as large as possible.
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.
(John Jamieson Carswell Smart) Filósofo australiano nacido en Cambridge en 1920. Estudió en Glasgow y en el Queen College de Oxford, donde más tarde fue...
