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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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115Losing 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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271Supervenience revisitedIn Ian Hacking (ed.), Exercises in Analysis: Essays by Students of Casimir Lewy, Cambridge University Press. pp. 59--74. 1984.
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155Circles, 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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14Platos Republic: A BiographyAtlantic Monthly Press. 2006.Plato is perhaps the most significant philosopher who has ever lived and The Republic , composed in Athens in about 375 BC, is widely regarded as his most famous dialogue. Its discussion of the perfect city — and the perfect mind — laid the foundations for Western culture and, for over two thousand years, has been the cornerstone of Western philosophy. As the distinguished Cambridge professor Simon Blackburn points out, it has probably sustained more commentary, and been subject to more radical …Read more
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77Humanity's natural facePhilosophical Explorations 3 (3). 2000.In my article I summarize a 'Humean' view of deliberation, and in particular deliberation with an ethical aspect. I regard Hume as having paved the way for a 'naturalistic' account of these things, avoiding Kantian fantasies of agency that dominate much current work. Contrary to what is often supposed, the Humean story gives a satisfactory account of dutiful or principled motivations, and a rich account of the ways in which different aspects of character are selected as 'useful or agreeable to o…Read more
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11The Presidential Address: The Steps from Doing to SayingProceedings of the Aristotelian Society 110 (1pt1). 2010.In this paper I consider recent developments in neo-pragmatism, and in particular the degree of convergence between such approaches and those placing greater emphasis on truth and truth-makers. I urge that although a global pragmatism has its merits, it by no means closes the space for a more Wittgensteinian, finer-grained, approach to the diversity of functions served by modal, causal, moral, or other modes of thought
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3Playing Hume's HandIn D. Z. Phillips & Timothy Tessin (eds.), Religion and Hume's Legacy, St. Martin's Press, Scholarly and Reference Division. 1999.
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108A very short essay on religionThink 11 (32): 33-36. 2012.My impression is that the fire-breathing atheists about whom we hear so much – the celebrated quartet of Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris, and Dan Dennett – think of religious commitments in terms of mistaken or at least hopelessly improbable and therefore irrational ontology. Believers think that something exists, but the overwhelmingly probable truth is that it does not. I may be wrong that this is what they think, but whether they do so or not, I am sure others do. Yet this i…Read more
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2Goodman's paradoxIn Peter Achinstein (ed.), Studies in the philosophy of science, Published By Basil Blackwell With the Cooperation of the University of Pittsburg. pp. 128--42. 1969.
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2The flight to realityIn Rosalind Hursthouse, Gavin Lawrence & Warren Quinn (eds.), Virtues and Reasons: Philippa Foot and Moral Theory: Essays in Honour of Philippa Foot, Clarendon Press. pp. 35--56. 1995.
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University of North Carolina, Chapel HillDistinguished Research Professor (Part-time)
Cambridge, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland