Jeremy Shearmur

{{Infobox philosopher

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1948|06|13 |df=yes}}

|region = Western philosophy

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|alma mater = London School of Economics and Political Science

|institutions = London School of Economics
University of Edinburgh
University of Manchester
Centre for Policy Studies
George Mason University

|school_tradition = Critical rationalism
Classical liberalism

|main_interests = Epistemology
Rationality
Philosophy of science
Social and political philosophy
Philosophy of mind

|influences = {{hlist|Karl Popper|Friedrich Hayek}}

}}

Jeremy Shearmur (born 13 June 1948) is a British former reader in philosophy in the School of Philosophy at the Australian National University, who retired at the end of 2013. He is currently an emeritus fellow, lives in Dumfries, Scotland, and is undertaking research and a limited amount of lecturing and Ph.D. supervision. He was educated at the London School of Economics.

He has taught at the University of Edinburgh, the University of Manchester, and at George Mason University, where he was a research associate professor at the Institute for Humane Studies. He was also director of studies of the Centre for Policy Studies, in London.

After briefly pursuing studies in librarianship, he worked for eight years as assistant to Karl Popper.{{Cite news|title=Opening the book on a man of many thoughts.|last=Shearmur|first=Jeremy|date=6 July 2002|work=The Canberra Times}}{{Cite web |title=A portrait of philosopher Karl Popper|date=2013-01-18 |publisher= Australian Broadcasting Corporation |url=https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/scienceshow/a-portrait-of-philosopher-karl-popper/4471272#transcript|language=en-AU|access-date=2018-11-21}}

Works

{{cite book |first= H. B. |last= Acton |authorlink= Harry Burrows Acton |title= The Morals of Markets and Related Essays |year= 1993 |editor1= Gordon, David |editor1-link= David Gordon (philosopher)|editor2= Shearmur, Jeremy |url=https://archive.org/details/moralsofmarketsr0000acto/page/n7/mode/2up?view=theater |url-access= registration |publisher=Liberty Fund |place= Indianapolis }}
{{cite book |title= Hayek and After: Hayekian Liberalism as a Research Programme |year= 1996 |publisher= Routledge |place= London and New York }}
{{cite book |title= The Political Thought of Karl Popper |year= 1996 |publisher= Routledge |place= London and New York |url=https://archive.org/details/politicalthought0000shea/page/n5/mode/2up |url-access= registration}}
{{cite book |first= Karl |last= Popper |author-link= Karl Popper |title= After the Open Society: Selected Social and Political Writings |year= 2008 |publisher= Routledge |url=https://archive.org/details/afteropensociety0000popp/page/n5/mode/2up?view=theater |url-access= registration|editor1= Shearmur, Jeremy |editor2= Turner, Piers Norris |place= Abingdon, Oxon |isbn= 978-0-415-61023-0}}
{{cite book |title= The Cambridge Companion to Popper |year= 2016 |editor1= Shearmur, Jeremy |editor2= Stokes, Geoffrey |publisher= Cambridge University Press |place= Cambridge and New York, NY |isbn= }}
{{cite book |title= A Sceptical Theory of Scientific Enquiry: Problems and Their Progress (Series in the Philosophy of Karl R. Popper and Critical Rationalism ) |year=2020 |last=Briskman |first= Laurence Barry |publisher= Brill |place= Leiden and Boston |editor= Shearmur, Jeremy}}
{{cite book |last= Hayek |first= F. A. |author-link= Friedrich August Hayek|title= The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek: Law, Legislation and Liberty: New Statement of Liberal Principles of Justice and Political Economy |volume = XIX |place=Chicago, IL |publisher= The University of Chicago Press |year= 2021 |editor= Shearmur, Jeremy |isbn=9780226782003 |url=}}

References

External links

[http://philrsss.anu.edu.au/profile/jeremy-shearmur ANU Profile]
{{Internet Archive author |sname= Jeremy Shearmur}}
[https://oll.libertyfund.org/person/jeremy-shearmur Shearmur, Jeremy]: at [http://oll.libertyfund.org/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=149 Online Library of Liberty] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221129152019/http://oll.libertyfund.org/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=149 |date=29 November 2022 }}
{{cite web|title=Jeremy Shearmur|url=https://www.jstor.org/action/doBasicSearch?Query=au%3A%22Jeremy+Shearmur%22+&acc=off&wc=on&fc=off&group=none|publisher=JSTOR}}

Category:Academic staff of the Australian National University

Category:Living people

Category:Critical rationalists

Category:1948 births