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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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272Supervenience revisitedIn Ian Hacking (ed.), Exercises in Analysis: Essays by Students of Casimir Lewy, Cambridge University Press. pp. 59--74. 1984.
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156Circles, 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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293The Power of Russell's Criticism of Frege: 'On Denoting' pp. 48-50Analysis 38 (2). 1978.The paper analyzes the famous passage in "on denoting" where russell appears to be attacking frege's theory of the sense and reference of proper names. We argue that russell's attack has been misinterpreted and unjustly condemned. The strategy is to show what difficulties do genuinely face a two-Part theory, And then to show that it is quite easy to interpret russell as having perceived them
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2Postawy i sądyEtyka 22 105-131. 1986.The paper is an attempt to show how a theory of morality which sees moral judgements as essentially expressions of personal attitude, can nevertheless explain and justify the way in which morality seems objective, and authoritative. It explores the genesis of notions of improvement, and correctness, and truth, in moral matters, thus trying to explain our right to these concepts, which other theories, such as realism, take too much for granted.
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132Blessed are the peacemakersPhilosophical Studies 172 (4): 843-853. 2015.In this paper I explore the points of similarity and difference that distinguish expressivists such as myself from the position known as Cornell realism. I argue that there are considerable overlaps of doctrine, although these doctrines are arrived at in very different ways. I urge that Cornell realism can only benefit by taking on some of the commitments of expressivism.
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5Reason, virtue, and knowledgeIn Abrol Fairweather & Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski (eds.), Virtue Epistemology: Essays on Epistemic Virtue and Responsibility, Oxford University Press. pp. 15--29. 2001.
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4The Inaugural Address: Paradise RegainedAristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 79 1-14. 2005.In this paper I consider some of the vicissitudes that the epistemology of the empirical world has suffered in the last half-century. I cast doubt on some of the ruling metaphors of the area, and on the flight from empiricism and foundationalism that they have assisted. But I also reject attempts to secure a better epistemology that themselves collaborate with the same fundamental mistakes, and in particular that of a spatial conception of the mind.
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17Meaning, Reference and Necessity: New Studies in Semantics (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 1975.A volume of studies in philosophical logic by a group of younger philosophers in the UK. There is a core of problems in the theory of meaning which have been accorded a central importance by philosophers, logicians and theoretical linguists, and which have stimulated some of the most powerful and original work in these subjects. The contributors to the volume have a common interest in these topics, insist on their continuing and fundamental importance, and offer here a distinctive and original c…Read more
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52Précis of Ruling PassionsPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 65 (1): 122-135. 2002.Ruling Passions is about human nature. It is an invitation to see human nature a certain way. It defends this way of looking at ourselves against competitors, including rational choice theory, modern Kantianism, various applications of evolutionary psychology, views that enchant our natures, and those that disenchant them in the direction of relativism or nihilism. It is a story centred upon a view of human ethical nature, which it places amongst other facets of human nature, as just one of the …Read more
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54. Hubris and the Fragile SelfIn Mirror, Mirror: The Uses and Abuses of Self-Love, Princeton University Press. pp. 61-78. 2014.
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56The Oxford Dictionary of PhilosophyPhilosophical Review 105 (2): 250. 1996.Within a year of each other, three one-volume general dictionaries of philosophy have recently appeared; when our future colleagues in philosophy look back on the 1990s they may well think of it as the decade of reference works. But however productive these years may prove to be in this genre, clearly visible somewhere around the top of the heap will be this handy, useful, entertaining, and instructive contribution from Simon Blackburn. Its two immediate competitors are the Cambridge Dictionary …Read more
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101Reason and PredictionCambridge University Press. 1973.An original study of the philosophical problems associated with inductive reasoning. Like most of the main questions in epistemology, the classical problem of induction arises from doubts about a mode of inference used to justify some of our most familiar and pervasive beliefs. The experience of each individual is limited and fragmentary, yet the scope of our beliefs is much wider; and it is the relation between belief and experience, in particular the belief that the future will in some respect…Read more
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446Essays in quasi-realismOxford University Press. 1993.This volume collects some influential essays in which Simon Blackburn, one of our leading philosophers, explores one of the most profound and fertile of philosophical problems: the way in which our judgments relate to the world. This debate has centered on realism, or the view that what we say is validated by the way things stand in the world, and a variety of oppositions to it. Prominent among the latter are expressive and projective theories, but also a relaxed pluralism that discourages the v…Read more
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University of North Carolina, Chapel HillDistinguished Research Professor (Part-time)
Cambridge, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland