Monima Chadha, Purushottama Bilimoria, and John Bigelow, J. J. C Smart (1920-2012): Remembering Jack, 2013, Sophia, 52: 1–5.
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He was a philosopher with a wide range of interests and made distinctive contributions to the study of ethics, philosophy of mind, metaphysics and philosophy of religion....Jack became a committed Quinean naturalist believing that reality is wholly natural: no God, no soul, no mysterious singularities, not even meanings or propositions. For Jack philosophy and science have the same subject matter, even though the methods are different.

— Monima Chadha

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "He was a philosopher with a wide range of interests and made distinctive contributions to the study of ethics, philosophy of mind, metaphysics and philosophy of religion....Jack became a committed Quinean naturalist believing that reality is wholly natural: no God, no soul, no mysterious singularities, not even meanings or propositions. For Jack philosophy and science have the same subject matter, even though the methods are different." in the context of "Monima Chadha, Purushottama Bilimoria, and John Bigelow, J. J. C Smart (1920-2012): Remembering Jack, 2013, Sophia, 52: 1–5." to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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J. J. C. Smart

About J. J. C. Smart

J. J. C. Smart (full name, John Jamieson Carswell "Jack" Smart; 16 September 1920 – 6 October 2012) was a British-Australian philosopher and Emeritus Professor at the Australian National University. He specialized in metaphysics, philosophy of science, philosophy of mind, philosophy of religion, and political philosophy.