Editing J. J. C. Smart (section)

==Career==
Born in [[Cambridge]], England, of Scottish parents, Smart began his education locally, attending [[The Leys School]], a leading independent boarding school. His younger brothers also became professors: Alastair (1922–1992) was Professor of Art History at Nottingham University; [[Ninian Smart|Ninian]] was a professor of [[religious studies]] and a pioneer in that field. Their father, [[William Marshall Smart]], was John Couch Adams Astronomer at [[Cambridge University]] and later [[Regius Professor of Astronomy, Glasgow|Regius Professor of Astronomy]] at [[Glasgow]]. In 1950, W.&nbsp;M. Smart was President of the [[Royal Astronomical Society]]. In 1946, Jack Smart graduated from the [[University of Glasgow]] with an [[Master of Arts (Scotland)|MA]], followed by a BPhil from [[Oxford University]] in 1948. He then worked as a Junior Research Fellow at [[Corpus Christi College, Oxford]], for two years.

Smart served in the [[World War II|Second World War]] with the [[British Army]] where he was [[Officer (armed forces)|commissioned]] as a [[second lieutenant]] in the [[Royal Corps of Signals]] on 9 October 1941 and given the [[service number]] 212091.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=35306|page=5938|date=10 October 1941|supp=y}}</ref><ref name="officers">{{cite web|url=https://www.unithistories.com/officers/Army_officers_S02.html#Smart_JJC|title=British Army officer histories|publisher=Unit Histories|access-date=21 August 2021}}</ref> His war service was mainly in [[British Raj|India]] and [[British rule in Burma|Burma]].<ref name="officers" /> He was demobilised in April 1946 and in 1950 was granted the honorary rank of [[Lieutenant (British Army and Royal Marines)|lieutenant]].<ref name="officers" />

He arrived in Australia in August 1950 to take up the Chair of Philosophy at the [[University of Adelaide]], which he occupied from 1950 until 1972. After twenty-two years in Adelaide, he moved to [[La Trobe University]] where he was Reader in Philosophy from 1972 to 1976. He then moved to the [[Australian National University]] where he was Professor of Philosophy in the Research School of Social Sciences from 1976 until his retirement in 1985, and where the annual Jack Smart Lecture is held in his honour.<ref>[http://philrsss.anu.edu.au/smart-lecture.php]{{dead link|date=October 2012}}</ref> Following his retirement he was [[Emeritus]] Professor at [[Monash University]].

Smart was a Foundation Fellow of the [[Australian Academy of the Humanities]] at its establishment in 1969.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Our history |url=https://humanities.org.au/about/our-history/ |access-date=2023-11-25 |website=Australian Academy of the Humanities |language=en-AU}}</ref> In 1990 he was awarded the Companion in the General Division of the Order of Australia.<ref name="monash1">{{Cite web|url=http://arts.monash.edu.au/philosophy/staff/jsmart.php|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120321185415/http://arts.monash.edu.au/philosophy/staff/jsmart.php|url-status=dead|title=Monash University Website|archive-date=21 March 2012}}</ref> In 1991 he was elected to become an honorary Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and in 2010, elected to become an honorary Fellow of [[Queen's College, Oxford]].<ref name="monash1"/>

At first Smart was a [[Behaviorism#Behaviorism in philosophy|behaviourist]] before becoming an early proponent of [[Type physicalism|type identity theory]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2017/entries/mind-identity/|title=The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy|first=J. J. C.|last=Smart|chapter=The Mind/Brain Identity Theory |editor-first=Edward N.|editor-last=Zalta|date=5 May 2017|publisher=Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University|via=Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy}}</ref>