Frank Cameron Jackson (born 1943) is a professor of philosophy at the Australian National University. Jackson is well-known within philosophy for his paper "Epiphenomenal Qualia", in which he presents an argument against physicalism, the thesis that everything supervenes on the kinds of entities postulated in physics. The view that Jackson urges is a more modest version of variant of Thomas Huxley's epiphenomenalism. On this view, some mental states are non-physical and, although caused to come into existence by physical events, do not then cause any changes in the physical world. 1943 (MCMXLIII) is a common year starting on Friday. ... These five broad types of question are called analytical or logical, epistemological, ethical, metaphysical, and aesthetic respectively. ... The Australian National University (ANU), is a university located in Canberra, the national capital of Australia. ... Actually, the suggestion is that we keep this article title as about physicalism generally (as described in the 2 paragraphs below) and split/merge the rest of the content into articles about physicalism in philosophy of mind. ... Thomas Huxley Thomas Henry Huxley F.R.S. (May 4, 1825 - June 29, 1895) was a British biologist, known as Darwins Bulldog for his defence of Charles Darwins theory of evolution. ...
Further reading
J. Franklin, Corrupting the Youth: A History of Philosophy in Australia (Macleay Press, 2003), ch. 9
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