Jeremy Shearmur
Australian academic
Intro | Australian academic | |
Places | Australia | |
is | Political scientist Educator | |
Work field | Academia Politics | |
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Birth | 13 June 1948 | |
Age | 76 years |
Jeremy Shearmur is a former a Reader in Philosophy in the School of Philosophy at the Australian National University, who retired 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.