Jeremy Shearmur

Australian National
University
Ph.D., University of London

Jeremy Shearmur is a Reader in Political Theory in
the Faculty of Arts at the Australian National
University. His appointment is in the Department of
Political Science. He has also taught in the Department
of Philosophy.

Dr. Shearmur was educated at the London School of
Economics (University of London) where he also worked
for eight years as assistant to Professor Sir Karl
Popper. Professor Shearmur’s Ph.D. thesis on F. A. Hayek
was a joint winner of the British Political Studies
Association’s Sir Ernest Barker prize in political
theory.

Prior to taking his position in Australia, Professor
Shearmur taught philosophy at the University of
Edinburgh and political theory at the University of
Manchester. He also served as Director of Studies of the
Center for Policy Studies and worked as a research
associate professor for the Institute for Humane Studies
at George Mason University.

He has published The Political Thought of Karl
Popper (1966) and Hayek and After (1996)
and was joint editor of H. B. Acton’s The Morals of
Markets and Related Essays (1993). He has also
published numerous papers in philosophy and political
thought.

Courses by this
professor:
Great
Minds of the Western Intellectual Tradition, 3rd
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