Australian philosophy - the philosophy of Australia in English. Represented by such names as Arthur Prior, David Armstrong, JJC Smart, Frank Jackson, Passmore, John Passmore, Peter Singer , Genevieve Lloyd (Genevieve Lloyd), Futa Helu (Futa Helu), etc.
Australian philosophy is, above all, an academic, inextricably linked with universities, philosophy. The first Department of Philosophy (Chair of Mental and Moral Philosophy) was established at the University of Melbourne in 1886. It was headed by Henry Laurie, a former student at Edinburgh University . At the University of Sydney, lectures on philosophy began to be read in 1888. Henry Lauri's successor in 1911 was Boyes Gibson (WR Boyce Gibson), who had previously studied in Jena and was influenced by the views of Rudolf Aiken (1846–1926). After the death of Boyce Gibson in 1935, the department was headed (from 1935 to 1965) by his son Alexander Boyce Gibson.
Beginning in 1923, the Australasian Journal of Philosophy (AJP) was published without interruption in Australia (until 1947 it was published as the Australasian Journal of Psychology and Philosophy), which has now become one of the leading philosophical journals. Since 1979, the magazine is published four times a year.
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