Guide to the Papers of J.J.C. Smart
MS 7740
National Library of Australia
| Date completed: | May 2005 |
| Last updated: | May 2005 |
Table of Contents
Collection Summary
Introduction
Scope and Content
Arrangement
Access
Copying and Publishing
Preferred Citation
Provenance
Biographical Note
Folder List
Box List
Collection Summary
| Creator: | Smart, J.J.C. (John Jamieson Carswell), 1920- |
| Title: | Papers of J.J.C. Smart |
| Date Range: | 1951-1996 |
| Collection Number: | MS 7740 |
| Extent: | 70 cm (5 boxes) |
| Repository: | National Library of Australia |
Introduction
Scope and Content
The papers consist predominantly of correspondence between Smart and philosophers in Australia, New Zealand, Britain, North America, Europe and Asia. Most of the letters discuss philosophical questions, but some deal with practical matters, such as publications, conferences and travels. The correspondents include David Armstrong, W.V. Quine, David Lewis, Donald Davidson, John Leslie, Antony Flew, Gilbert Ryle and R.M. Hare. In addition to the letters, there is correspondence concerning Smart's association with the Fédération International des Societes de Philosophie and the Australian National University, together with a small group of his unpublished lectures and other writings.
Arrangement
Smart kept his correspondence in chronolgoical order and in later years he made separte files for his Australian and overseas correspondents. This arrangment has been maintained by the Library.
Smart retained copies of many of his own letters and in some files the outgoing letters exceed the incoming ones. Only the writers of letter and not the recipients have been listed.
Provenance
The first instalment of the papers was donated to the Library by Professor Smart in 1989. He added the 1986-1996 correspondence files in 1999.
Copying and Publishing
Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions. For such material, written permission to publish must be obtained from the copyright holder(s). Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.
Preferred Citation
Items from this collection should be cited as '[Title or description of manuscript item], Papers of J.J.C. Smart, National Library of Australia, MS 7740, [Folder number]'.
Biographical Note
John Jamieson Carswell Smart was born in Cambridge, England, on 16 September 1920, the son of William and Isabel Smart. He was educated at The Leys School (Cambridge), Glasgow University and the University of Oxford. He served in the British Army, mainly in India and Burma, during World War II.
Smart was a Fellow at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, before being appointed Hughes Professor of Philosophy at the University of Adelaide in 1950. He held this position until 1972, when he moved to La Trobe University as a Reader in Philosophy. In 1976 he was appointed Professor of Philosophy at the Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University. He retired in 1986, but continued to work at the Australian National University until 1999. During his career he held visiting professorships at several universities including Princeton, Harvard, Yale and Stanford.
Jack Smart is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. In 1990 he was made a Companion of the Order of Australia. In 1956 he married Janet Paine and they had two children. She died in 1967 and in the following year he married Elizabeth Warner.
Smart's publications include:
An outline of a system of utilitarian ethics, Melbourne, 1961
Philosophy and scientific realism, London, 1963
Between science and philosophy, New York, 1968
Utilitarianism: for and against, Cambridge, 1973 (with Bernard Williams)
Ethics, persuasion and truth, London, 1984
Essays metaphysical and moral, Oxford, 1987
Our place in the universe, Oxford, 1989
Atheism and theism, Oxford, 1996 (with J.J. Haldane)
Folder List
Folder 1 Fédération International des Societes de Philosophie, 1968-1974
Correspondence concerning Smart's membership of the Fédération
Folder 2 Australian National University, 1975-1988
Correspondence concerning Smart's appointment as Professor of Philosophy in 1975, his research at the University, his retirement in 1985, and letters sent by Smart to ANU academics.
Folder 3 Correspondence, 1951-1964
Correspondents include Gilbert Ryle, W.V. Quine, Wilfrid Sellars, John Harsanyi, Nathan Pusey, H. Bondi, R.M.Hare, Hilary Putnam, Dorothy Moore
Folder 4 Correspondence, 1964-1969
Correspondents include C. Hartshorne, Jay Rosenberg, Nicholas Rescher, Adolf Grunbaum, R.C. Cross, David Lewis, W.V. Quine, Judith Economos, Carl Hempel, Richard Schlegel, Colin Burnett
Folder 5 Correspondence, 1965-1969
Correspondents include Gilbert Ryle, Don Locke, Antony Flew, I.J. Good, Nicholas Maxwell, John Tucker, R.M. Hare, David Lewis, Adolf Grunbaum, Judith Kahane, Martin Gardner, W.V. Quine
Folder 6 Correspondence, 1969-1970
Correspondents include David Lewis, Michael Green, A. Boyce Gibson, David Armstrong, Fred Alexander, Antony Flew
Folder 7 Correspondence, 1971
Correspondents include I.M.D. Little, Bernhard Rensch, David Lewis, Donald Davidson, W.V. Quine, Dagfinn Follesdal, Jaakko Hintikka, D.C. Dennett, John Leslie, David Armstrong, A.K. Stout, F.C. Jackson
Folder 8 Correspondence, 1972-1974
Correspondents include F.C. Jackson, J.L. Mackie, James Culbertson, David Lewis, Gilbert Ryle, M.L. Meakin, W.V. Quine, Donald Davidson. J.N. Crossley
Folder 9 Correspondence, 1974-1975
Correspondents include Bas van Fraassen, Antony Flew, W.V. Quine, Bob Kirk, David Lewis, Derek Lawden, Georg von Wright, David Cousin
Folder 10 Correspondence, 1975-1976
Correspondents include David Armstrong, Hugh Stretton, Hugh Montgomery, W.V. Quine, Donald Davidson, Francis Sparshott, Gilbert Ryle, Antony Flew
Folder 11 Correspondence, 1977
Correspondents include Robin Haack, V.A. Edgeloe, Hector Monro, Peter Singer, Frank Jackson
Folder 12 Correspondence, 1978
Correspondents include Donald Davidson, Joel Kupperman, Gilbert Harman, Harry Allen, R.G. Frey, Bernard Mayo
Folder 13 Correspondence, 1979
Correspondents include John Harsanyi, Stephen Croddy, Bill Lycan, Chris Mortensen, Hugh Mellor, Adolf Grunbaum
Folder 14 Correspondence, 1980
Correspondents include John Mackie, Hugh Mellor, Bernard Mayo, W.V. Quine, John Harsanyi
Folder 15 Correspondence, 1980-1981
Correspondents include David Armstrong, Hector Monro, Max Charlesworth, Winston Nesbitt
Folder 16 Correspondence, 1981
Correspondents include Jim Urmson, Antony Flew, Igor Primorac, Jonathan Cohen, Ian Hacking, Donald Regan, Paul Churchland, Joel Kupperman
Folder 17 Correspondence, 1982
Correspondents include Peter Smith, Antony Flew, Bernard Harrison, Lars Bergstrom, Anne Maclean, Donald Davidson, Jonathan Cohen, Joel Kupperman
Folder 18 Australia and New Zealand, 1982-1983
Correspondents include Basil Rennie, David Stove, Michael Devitt
Folder 19 Overseas, 1983
Correspondents include Bruce Vermazen, David Lewis, Guy Stock, Bernard Mayo, Bernard Williams
Folder 20 Overseas, 1984
Correspondents include John Leslie, Gilbert Plumer, David Lewis, Donald Davidson, William Lycan, Antony Flew, Guy Stock, Neil Tennant
Folder 21 Australia and New Zealand, 1984-1985
Correspondents include David Armstrong, C.A.J. Coady, Michael Bradley, Paul Simpson, Michael Devitt
Folder 22 Overseas, 1985
Correspondents include B.C. Postow, Donald Regan, W.V. Quine, Stephen Voss, Onora O'Neill
Folder 23 Overseas, 1986
Correspondents include Sir Alfred Ayer, Ullin Place, John Wright, W.V. Quine, Jeff Foss, John Leslie, Hilary Putnam
Folder 24 Australia and New Zealand, 1986-1987
Correspondents include David Armstrong, Peter Singer, Graham Oddie
Folder 25 Overseas, 1987
Correspondents include Bernard Mayo, R.M. Hare, W.V. Quine, James Young, John Leslie, Donald Davidson, Ruth Millikan
Folder 26 Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom and Europe, 1988
Correspondents include Linda Burns, Charles Pigden, Peter Menzies, Guy Stock, Jeremy Butterfield
Folder 27 United States, Canada and South America, 1988
Correspondents include Michael Ruse, W.V. Quine, John Leslie, Storrs McCall
Folder 28 Correspondence, 1989
Correspondents include John Wright, David Armstrong, W.V. Quine, John Leslie, Paul Edwards, Ullin Place
Folder 29 Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom and Europe, 1990
Correspondents include B. Rennie, David Armstrong, Hector Monro, André Fuhrmann, R.M. Hare, John Watkins
Folder 30 United States and Canada, 1990
Correspondents include James Sorenson, Irwin Goldstein, Arnold Johanson, Scott Arnold, Jagdish Hattiangadi, Eugene Kamenka
Folder 31 Australia and New Zealand, 1991
Correspondents include John Clendinnen, David Armstrong, John Furge, Peter Forrest, Andrew Holster, David Stove, Alex Millmow, Paul Simpson
Folder 32 Overseas, 1991
Correspondents include Bill Lycan, Ferrel Christensen, James Young, David Lewis, Christopher Daly, Huw Price, Jenny Teichman
Folder 33 Australia and New Zealand, 1992
Correspondents include Angas Hurst, John McKie, Justice Gerard Brennan, Jim Franklin, Eddie Hughes, Charles Pigden, Keith Campbell
Folder 34 Overseas, 1992
Correspondents include Ullin Place, Christopher Daly, Dame Iris Murdoch, John Heil, Paul Edwards, Charles Martin, Edward Averill, John Leslie
Folder 35 Australia and New Zealand, 1993
Correspondents include John Bigelow, Jack Copeland, John Fox, John Clendinnen, Jim Franklin, Peter Forrest
Folder 36 Britain, Europe and Asia, 1993
Correspondents include Ullin Place, Christopher Daly, Stephan Hartmann, Danny Shaw, Mark Sainsbury
Folder 37 USA and Canada, 1993
Correspondents include Sydney Shoemaker, Ray Bradley, Hilary Putnam, W.V. Quine, James Young, Paul Edwards
Folder 38 Australia, New Zealand, Briatian and Europe, 1994
Correspondents include Jim Mackenzie, Peter Forrest, Murray MacBeath, Stephan Hartmann, John Leslie, Bryan Magee, Alex Miller
Folder 39 USA and Canada, 1994
Correspondents include Jonathan Adler, Anil Gupta, Anthony Serafini, Ray Bradley, David Lewis, David Duemler, Susan Haack
Folder 40 Australia and New Zealand, 1995
Correspondents include Justice David Hodgson, H.S. Green, Peter Forrest
Folder 41 Overseas, 1995
Correspondents include Ullin Place, Antony Flew, Hilary Putnam, John Leslie, Anil Gupta, Jonathan Adler, Susan Haack
Folder 42 Australia and New Zealand, 1996
Correspondents include David Armstrong, Alan Chalmers, John Barrett, Justice David Hodgson, Daniel Nolan
Folder 43 Overseas, 1996
Correspondents include Ullin Place, Michael Lockwood, Antony Flew, Alex Miller, Geoffrey Scarre, Jenny Teichman, W.V. Quine, John Leslie
Folder 44 Unpublished papers, 1964-1976
Includes: 'Two ways of life - some moral issues', 'How to turn the Tractatus (Wittgenstein) into (almost) Donald Davidson', 'A critique of Meinongian semantics', 'The prisoner's dilemma and utilitarianism', 'Has modal logic got an intelligible semantics?', 'Science as an approximation to truth', 'Abstract entities', 'Can theories be criticized only from the point of view of other theories?', 'Physics, extensionality and idealisations', 'The mechanistic nightmare', 'Men and machines'
Box List
| Folder | Box |
| 1-8 | 1 |
| 9-17 | 2 |
| 18-25 | 3 |
| 26-34 | 4 |
| 35-44 | 5 |