Frank Cameron Cameron Jackson

Background

Jackson, Frank Cameron was born on August 31, 1943 in Melbourne, Australia. Son of Allan Cameron and Ann Elizabeth Jackson.

Education

Bachelor of Science, U. Melbourne, 1961; Bachelor, U. Melbourne, 1961; Doctor of Philosophy, LaTrobe U., 1975.

Career

1967, Temporary Lecturer in Philosophy. University of Adelaide. 1968 77, Lecturer, then Senior Lecturer, then Reader, La Trobe University.

1978-1986, Professor of Philosophy, Monash University. 1986-1990 and since 1993, Professor el Philosophy, Research School of Social Sciences. Australian National University.

1991-1992, Professor of Philosophy, Monash University. Since 1992. Professor of Philosophy, R.S.S.S., Australian National University, 1994-1995, John Locke Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Oxford.

Achievements

• Frank Cameron Jackson has been listed as a noteworthy Philosophy educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Views

The son of a philosopher, A. C. Jackson, Prank Jackson has been, since the 1970s a leading figure among a band of philosophers who have kept alive the strong philosophical tradition in Australia. His first book put up a characteristically powerful defence of the unfashionable representative theory of perception—and against the adverbial version of a direct theory—without invoking the usual argument from illusion. Physical objects are seen ‘in virtue of’ the direct seeing of mental objects. Jackson is also widely known as a selfconfessed ‘qualia freak', advancing the so-called knowledge argument in favour of, for example, colour-qualia, and against physical- ■sm. Mary, who has lived all her life in a blackand-white room with a black-and-white TV, has learned all there is to know scientifically about colours, but there is something crucial she does not yet know: what it is like to experience colours. An interest largely independent of philosophy mind has been in conditionals, on which Jackson has worked for two decades. He has defended a theory of indicative conditionals which he calls a ‘supplemented equivalence theory’, whereby the data of ordinary usage is taken to support an explanation in terms of equivalence to material conditionals, together w,th various conditions of assertion, including the probability of the consequent given the truth the antecedent.

Membership

Fellow Australian Academy Humanities.

Interests

• Philosophical logic; cognitive science. Epistemology; metaphysics. Meta-ethics.

• Philosophers & Thinkers

  A. C. Jackson, D. Armstrong, J. J. C. Smart and M. C. Bradley

Connections

Married Morag Elizabeth Fraser, October 12, 1967. Children: Catriona Ann, Siobhan.

Father:

Allan Cameron Jackson

Mother:

Ann Elizabeth Jackson

Spouse:

Morag Elizabeth Fraser

child:

Catriona Ann Jackson

child:

Siobhan Jackson