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52
Citations
19521
World Ranking
2368
National Ranking
171

Overview

Frank Jackson is affiliated with the Australian National University in Australia. Their research spans multiple intersecting fields within the arts and humanities and psychology.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Psychology

Subfields in which they have published are:

  • Philosophy
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • History and Philosophy of Science
  • Law
  • Political Science and International Relations

Jackson's research covers a range of topics, including:

  • Philosophy and Theoretical Science
  • Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics
  • Classical Philosophy and Thought
  • Legal principles and applications
  • American Constitutional Law and Politics
  • Multicultural Socio-Legal Studies
  • Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge

Their recent papers include:

  • Conceptual analysis and the Coercion Thesis, 2021, published in Revus
  • Reflections on Mirror Man, 2021, published in Philosophical Studies
  • Issue Information, 2023, published in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (authored by Ernest Sosa)
  • Issue Information, 2021, published in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (authored by Felicia Nimue)
  • Issue Information, 2020, published in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (authored by Felicia Nimue)

Frequent publication venues for Jackson's work are:

  • Philosophy and Phenomenological Research
  • Revus
  • Philosophical Studies
  • Philosophia
  • Belgrade Philosophical Annual

Collaborations are a significant aspect of their scholarship. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Daniel Stoljar
  • Felicia Nimue
  • Ackerman Robert
  • Adams Louise
  • Antony Robert

Best Publications

  • From Metaphysics to Ethics: A Defence of Conceptual Analysis

    Frank Cameron Jackson

  • What Mary Didn't Know

    Frank Jackson

  • Perception: A representative theory

    Frank Cameron Jackson

  • Conceptual analysis and reductive explanation

    David J. Chalmers;Frank Jackson

  • Philosophy of Mind and Cognition: An Introduction

    David Braddon-Mitchell;Frank Jackson

  • From Metaphysics to Ethics

    Frank Jackson

  • Decision-Theoretic Consequentialism and the Nearest and Dearest Objection

    Frank Jackson

  • Three theses about dispositions

    Elizabeth W. Prior;Robert Pargetter;Frank Jackson

  • Program explanation: a general perspective

    Frank Jackson;Philip Pettit

  • Oughts, options, and actualism

    Frank Jackson;Robert Pargetter

  • MORAL FUNCTIONALISM AND MORAL MOTIVATION

    Frank Jackson;Philip Pettit

  • On assertion and indicative conditionals

    Frank Jackson

  • Reference and Description Revisited

    Frank Jackson

  • Functionalism and broad content

    Frank Jackson;Philip Pettit

  • Philosophy of Mind and Cognition

    David Braddon-Mitchell;Frank Jackson

  • Mind and Illusion

    Frank Jackson

  • A causal theory of counterfactuals

    Frank Jackson

  • In Defense of Explanatory Ecumenism

    Frank Jackson;Philip Pettit

  • From Metaphysics to Ethics: A Defence of Conceptual Analysis

    D. Gene Witmer;Frank Jackson

  • Minimalism and truth aptness

    Michael Smith;Frank Jackson;Graham Oppy

  • The philosophy of mind and cognition

    David Braddon-Mitchell;Frank Jackson

Frequent Co-Authors

Sydney Shoemaker
Sydney Shoemaker Cornell University
Stephen Stich
Stephen Stich Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
David J. Chalmers
David J. Chalmers New York University
Bas C. van Fraassen
Bas C. van Fraassen San Francisco State University
John Earman
John Earman University of Pittsburgh
Graham Priest
Graham Priest The Graduate Center, CUNY
Nancy Cartwright
Nancy Cartwright Durham University

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