Reader in Philosophy
Australian National University

Jeremy Shearmur obtained his B.Sc. (Econ), his M.Sc. and his Ph.D. at the London School of Economics (University of London), where he also worked for eight years as Assistant to Professor Sir Karl Popper. He taught at the University of Edinburgh, the University of Manchester, and at George Mason University, where he was a Research Associate Professor. He was also Director of Studies of the Centre for Policy Studies, in London. He was a Visiting Scholar at the Social Philosophy and Policy Center, Bowling Green State University, for the Spring Semester of 1997, and he is a regular visitor to the Institute for Humane Studies, George Mason University. Research areas: Political philosophy; philosophy of science and social science; moral philosophy; mid-twentieth century social and political theory 

Office: A.D. Hope 160
Phone: +02 6125-2792
E-mail: Jeremy.Shearmur@anu.edu.au

ANU COURSES

PUBLICATIONS

Hayek and After, London & New York: Routledge, 1996 

The Political Thought of Karl Popper,London & New York: Routledge, 1996. (Italian translation Il Penserio politico di Karl Popper, Milan: Societa Aperta 1997.) 

Editor (with David Gordon), H. B. Acton, The Morals of Markets and Related Essays, Indianapolis: Liberty Press, April 1993.

Joint editor, Special Issue of Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 1996-7.

Editor, Symposium: Privatization - The Assumptions and the Implications, Marquette Law Review, 71, Spring 1988.

Articles etc (since 1995)

'Popper e il consenso negativo', Nuova Civilta delle Macchine, XX, nos.
1-2, (= Karl R. Popper 1902-2002: ripensando il razionalismo critico, ed. Stefano Gattei), 2002, pp. 236-243; English abstract, p. 254

'Living with a Marsupial Mouse: Lessons from Celebration, Florida', Policy, 18, no. 2., winter 2002, pp. 19-22,

'Popper and Classical Liberalism', Economic Affairs, 21, Number 4, December 2001, pp. 40-3.

'Trust, Titmuss and Blood', Economic Affairs, 21, Number 1, March 2001, pp. 29-33.

'The Use of Knowledge in Organizations', Polis (Romania), 2, 1999 [published 2000], pp. 67-82; revised version, Knowledge Technology & Social Policy,Fall 2000 [published 2001], 13, No. 3, pp. 30-48.

 ‘Hayek and the Future of Political Philosophy’, Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines,9, nos 2-3,1999, pp. 437-53

'Popper, Hayek and The Poverty of Historicism Part I', in Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 28 (3), 1998, pp. 434-50.

'Hayek, Keynes and the State', History of Economics Review, 26, Winter-Summer 1997, pp. 68-82.

'Francis Newman and the "Austrian" Critique of Socialism', Advances in Austrian Economics, 4, 1997, pp. 197-204.

'A Character to Lose: Good Conduct in the Great Society' (with D. Klein) in D. Klein (ed.) Reputation,Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997, pp. 29-45.

'From Divine Corporation to a System of Justice', in P. Groenewegen (ed.) Economics and Ethics?, London: Routledge, 1996, pp. 46-67.

'Popper's Political Theory: A Reassessment', in I. Hampsher-Monk and J. Stanyer (eds), Contemporary Political Studies 1996, volume 2, pp. 634-41.

'The Individual: A Suitable Case for Privatization', Policy,11, no. 2, Winter 1995, pp. 31-5.

Climbing the Ivory Tower,Fairfax, VA: Institute for Humane Studies, 1995.

'From Social Workers to Employment Agents', Policy, 10 (4), Summer 1994-5, pp. 17-21

'Karl Popper's Politics: Liberalism versus Democratic Socialism', (CIS Occasional Paper 53), St Leonards, NSW: CIS, 1995. Pp viii & 21.

'Epistemology and Human Nature' in Popper's Political Theory: A Reply to Stokes, Political Studies, XLIII, No. 1, March 1995, pp. 124-30.

'Philosophical Method, Modified Essentialism and The Open Society', in I. C. Jarvie & N. Laor (eds) Critical Rationalism, The Social Sciences and the Humanities, Essays for Joseph Agassi, volume II, Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1995, pp. 19-39.

Shorter Pieces (since 1995)

'Popper' in W. Hands and others (eds) Handbook of economic methodology, Aldershot: Edward Elgar, 1998, pp. 368-70.

'Popper', 'Lakatos', Feyerabend' in T. Mautner (ed.) Penguin Dictionary of Philosophy, Oxford: Blackwell, 1996 (also Penguin, 1997).