Jeremy Shearmur

Jeremy Shearmur
Era	20th-century philosophy
Region	Western Philosophy
School	Critical rationalism Classical Liberalism
Main interests	Epistemology Rationality Philosophy of science Social and political philosophy Philosophy of mind
Influences Karl Popper · Friedrich Hayek · ]

Jeremy Shearmur was a Reader in Philosophy in the School of Philosophy at the Australian National University, until his retirement at the end of 2013. He is currently an Emeritus Fellow, and is undertaking 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.

Works

• Hayek and After (1996)
• The Political Thought of Karl Popper (1996)
• Karl Popper, After the Open Society (2008) edited with Piers Norris Turner

External links

• ANU Biography