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John Jamesion Carswell Smart , dit Jack Smart, est un philosophe australien d'origine britannique appartenant au courant de pensée analytique. Il est l'un des principaux fondateurs de l’école matérialiste australienne. Ses thèses les plus remarquables concernent la philosophie de l'esprit et la métaphysique du temps. Wikipedia

✵ 16. septembre 1920 – 6. octobre 2012

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“Men were made for higher things, one can’t help wanting to say, even though one knows that men weren’t made for anything, but are the product of natural selection.”

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An Outline of a System of Utilitarian Ethics, in J. J. C. Smart and Bernard Williams, Utilitarianism For and Against, Cambridge, 1973, p. 19

“That anything should exist at all does seem to me a matter for the deepest awe. But whether other people feel this sort of awe, and whether they or I ought to is another question. I think we ought to.”

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The Existence of God, Church Quarterly Review, 156(319): 194 (1955).
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“The reason why there are hardly ever completely knock-down arguments, except between very like minded philosophers, is that philosophers, unlike chemists or geologists, are licensed to question everything, including methodology.”

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Ockhamist Comments on Strawson, in Anthony Freeman (ed.), Consciousness and its Place in Nature: Does Physicalism Entail Panpsychism?, Exteter, 2006, pp. 158-159
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