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226TPM EssayThe Philosophers' Magazine 52 (52): 34-42. 2011.I think it is a lapse of taste to spend a grown-up life on problems of which people in the office next door, let alone those outside the building, cannot see the point. I rather fear that the so-called semantic or logical problem of vagueness, Professor Williamson’s own showcase example of his compulsory methods, strikes me as like that.
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36Mirror, Mirror: The Uses and Abuses of Self-LovePrinceton University Press. 2014.Drawing on philosophy, psychology, literature, history, and popular culture, this book looks at the good and bad aspects of vanity and self-love, from the myth of Narcissus and the Christian story of the Fall to today's self-esteem industry.
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19. EnvoiIn Mirror, Mirror: The Uses and Abuses of Self-Love, Princeton University Press. pp. 187-190. 2014.
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159Justification, Scepticism, and NihilismUtilitas 7 (2): 237. 1995.Sinnott-Armstrong's paper principally defends our inability to justify, philosophically, normal moral claims. In particular, we cannot justify them against other claims, especially the claim of moral nihilism. Moral nihilism is the doctrine that there are no moral obligations. This thesis ‘does not lie in meta-ethics. It is a universally quantified substantive moral claim’. Sinnott-Annstrong makes it clear that he does not actually believe this doctrine, but he believes that it is coherent, and …Read more
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Spreading the Word. Groundings in the Philosophy of LanguagePhilosophical Quarterly 36 (142): 65-84. 1986.
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18This is the text of The Lindley Lecture for 2004, given by Simon Blackburn, a British philosopher.
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University of North Carolina, Chapel HillDistinguished Research Professor (Part-time)
Cambridge, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland