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Abstract Two essays on utilitarianism, written from opposite points of view, by J. J. C. Smart and Bernard Williams. In the first part of the book Professor Smart advocates a modern and sophisticated version of classical utilitarianism; he tries to formulate a consistent and persuasive elaboration of the doctrine that the rightness and wrongness of actions is determined solely by their ...
David Knight - 1991 - Philosophical Books 32 (3):188-188. The doctrine of space and time: V. The real world in space and time. George Stuart Fullerton - 1901 - Philosophical Review 10 (6):583-600. Identity, space-time, and cosmology. Jan Faye - 2008 - In Dennis Geert Bernardus Johan Dieks (ed.), The Ontology of Spacetime II.
2 Smart, J. J. C., ‘ Sensations and Brain Processes ’, The Philosophical Review, LXVIII (1959), 141 –56.CrossRef Google Scholar This article is reprinted in Chappell, V. C., The Philosophy of Mind (Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1962), 160 –72.Google Scholar The reference above (and those which follow) is to p. 167 of the latter.
With the publication in 1959 of J.J.C. Smart’s article “Sensations and Brain Processes” 1 the mind-body problem became the dominating concern of Australian philosophers, and Australia became the centre of a movement to rehabilitate the ancient but discredited theory that the mind is the brain. It was widely held that solid arguments could be used to demonstrate the impossibility of ...
THE SPACE-TIME WORLD. IN ' The River of Time ' (MIND, October 1949), Professor J. J. C. Smart diagnosed one of the factors which has led philosophers to spatialise time, to conceive of time as a dimension in which events occupy different places: 'if we think of events as changing, namely in respect of pastness, presentness and futurity, we ...
This memoir focuses on aspects of Professor J.J.C. Smart's philosophy and life that may interest the readers of Sophia. Jack Smart was born into a Scottish family and educated at Leys school in Cambridge. His interest in cricket began in Leys school at an early age. In his SOPHIA (2013) 52:1–5 DOI 10.1007/s11841-013-0361-5 M. Chadha (*): J ...
John Jameison Carswell Smart, or Jack Smart (born 1920), M.A. (Glasgow, 1946), B.Phil (Oxford, 1948)) is a Scottish-Australian philosopher. Professor of Philosophy at the University of Adelaide from 1950-72. From 1972-76 he was Reader in Philosophy at La Trobe University, and from 1976-85 he was Professor of Philosophy at the Australian ...
