JACKSON, Frank Cameron
Lim Chong Yah Professor
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| Brief Introduction | Frank Cameron Jackson took mathematics and philosophy at the University of Melbourne and a PhD in philosophy at La Trobe University. He taught at Adelaide for a year (1967) before moving to La Trobe and then to a chair at Monash (1978). He joined the ANU in 1986 as Professor of Philosophy and Head of the Philosophy Program, Research School of Social Sciences.
At ANU Jackson has served as Director of the Institute of Advanced Studies (1998-2001), Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) (2001) and Director of the Research School of Social Sciences (2004-2007). He was appointed as Distinguished Professor at ANU in 2003. He retired in 2014 and is now an Emeritus Professor. Jackson held a half-time appointment at Princeton University from 2007 to 2014. He has held a number of visiting positions, most recently as Leverhulme Professor of Philosophy at Cambridge University in 2011. He will be Lim Chong Yah Visiting Professor at The National University of Singapore in 2017. He gave the Locke Lectures at Oxford University in 1995, the Gavin David Young Lectures at Adelaide University in 2012, and will be giving the Carnap Lectures at Ruhr-University in 2017. His most recent book is Language, Names, and Information, Wiley-Blackwell, 2010, based on his Blackwell lectures at Brown University. He is a member of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy, and was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia in 2006. |