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6RelativismIn Hugh LaFollette - (ed.), The Blackwell Guide to Ethical Theory, Blackwell. pp. 38--52. 2000.
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3Truth, Beauty and GoodnessIn Russ Shafer-Landau (ed.), Oxford Studies in Metaethics, Oxford University Press. pp. 5--295. 2010.
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Some remarks about minimalismIn Annalisa Coliva (ed.), Mind, meaning, and knowledge: themes from the philosophy of Crispin Wright, Oxford University Press. 2012.
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Ethics, religion, scienceIn John Skorupski (ed.), The Routledge Companion to Ethics, Routledge. 2010.
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25Analysis, Description and the A PrioriIn Ian Ravenscroft (ed.), Minds, Ethics, and Conditionals: Themes from the Philosophy of Frank Jackson, Oxford University Press. pp. 23. 2008.
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3The absolute conception : Putnam vs WilliamsIn Daniel Callcut (ed.), Reading Bernard Williams, Routledge. 2008.
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16Pascal's WagerIn Steven M. Cahn (ed.), Exploring Philosophy: An Introductory Anthology, Oxford University Press Usa. 2000.
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116Losing your mind: Physics, identity, and folk burglar preventionIn John D. Greenwood (ed.), The Future of Folk Psychology, Cambridge University Press. pp. 196. 1991.
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276Supervenience revisitedIn Ian Hacking (ed.), Exercises in Analysis: Essays by Students of Casimir Lewy, Cambridge University Press. pp. 59--74. 1984.
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158Circles, finks, smells and biconditionalsPhilosophical Perspectives 7 (Language and Logic): 259-279. 1993.
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79How to refer to private experienceProceedings of the Aristotelian Society 75 201-213. 1975.Simon Blackburn; XIII*—How to Refer to Private Experience, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Volume 75, Issue 1, 1 June 1975, Pages 201–214, https://doi.
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555Think: a compelling introduction to philosophyOxford University Press. 1999.Here at last is a coherent, unintimidating introduction to the challenging and fascinating landscape of Western philosophy. Written expressly for "anyone who believes there are big questions out there, but does not know how to approach them," Think provides a sound framework for exploring the most basic themes of philosophy, and for understanding how major philosophers have tackled the questions that have pressed themselves most forcefully on human consciousness. Simon Blackburn, author of the b…Read more
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77Making ends meetPhilosophical Books 27 (4): 193-203. 1986.Williams’s arguments against the morality system are given canonical form in Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy, chapter 10, where he undertakes to describe this particular form of ethical thinking and explain “why we would be better off without it”.
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79Some years ago, without realizing what it might mean, I accepted a dinner invitation from a Jewish colleague for dinner on Friday night. I should say that my colleague had never appeared particularly orthodox, and he would have known that I am an atheist. However, in the course of the meal, some kind of observance was put in train, and it turned out I was expected to play along—put on a hat, or some such. I demurred, saying that I felt uncomfortable doing something that might be the expression o…Read more
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59Julius Caesar and George Berkeley Play LeapfrogIn Cynthia Macdonald & Graham Macdonald (eds.), Mcdowell and His Critics, Blackwell. pp. 6--203. 2006.
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33Fiction and ConvictionPhilosophical Papers 32 (3): 243-260. 2003.Abstract In this piece I take issue with Bernard Williams's interpretation of Herodotus as lacking something of our conception of time. I claim that there is nothing so unusual in the interleaving of myth or fiction and history that Williams finds in Herodotus. I also reflect on the difficulty of separating acceptance of truth from acceptance of myth, metaphor, and model, not only in history but also in science
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3Dilemmas: Dithering, Plumping, and GriefIn H. E. Mason (ed.), Moral Dilemmas and Moral Theory, Oxford University Press. pp. 127. 1996.
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University of North Carolina, Chapel HillDistinguished Research Professor (Part-time)
Cambridge, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland