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111A 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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742Moral Relativism and Moral ObjectivityPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 58 (1): 195-198. 1998.
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40The Emergence of Probability By Ian Hacking Cambridge University Press, 1975, 209 pp., £5.50 (review)Philosophy 51 (198): 476-. 1976.
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264Ethics: a very short introductionOxford University Press. 2001.In this clear introduction to ethics Simon Blackburn tackles the major moral questions surrounding birth, death, happiness, desire and freedom, showing us how ...
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97. TemptationIn Mirror, Mirror: The Uses and Abuses of Self-Love, Princeton University Press. pp. 132-162. 2014.
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77Lust: The Seven Deadly SinsOup Usa. 2004.Lust, says Simon Blackburn, is furtive, headlong, always sizing up opportunities. It is a trail of clothing in the hallway, the trashy cousin of love. But be that as it may, the aim of this delightful book is to rescue lust "from the denunciations of old men of the deserts, to deliver it from the pallid and envious confessor and the stocks and pillories of the Puritans, to drag it from the category of sin to that of virtue." Blackburn, author of such popular philosophy books as Think and Being G…Read more
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20Comments on Gibbard’s Thinking How to LivePhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 72 (3): 699-706. 2006.University of Cambridge.
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7Securing the nots: moral epistemology for the quasi-realistIn Walter Sinnott-Armstrong & Mark Timmons (eds.), Moral knowledge?: new readings in moral epistemology, Oxford University Press. pp. 82--100. 1996.
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468. Integrity, Sincerity, AuthenticityIn Mirror, Mirror: The Uses and Abuses of Self-Love, Princeton University Press. pp. 163-186. 2014.
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469Quasi-Realism no FictionalismIn Mark Eli Kalderon (ed.), Fictionalism in Metaphysics, Oxford University Press. pp. 322--338. 2005.
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102Comments on Gibbard’s Thinking How to Live (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 72 (3). 2006.University of Cambridge.
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164How to Read HumeGranta. 2008.Simon Blackburn. 1985. Garrett, Don. Cognition and Commitment in Hume's Philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. Gaskin, J.C. A. Hume's Philosophy of Religion, 2nd ed. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1988. Holden, T.The Architecture ...
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211. The Self: Iris Murdoch and Uncle WilliamIn Mirror, Mirror: The Uses and Abuses of Self-Love, Princeton University Press. pp. 12-34. 2014.
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67Précis 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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6Reply : Rule-following and moral realismIn Steven H. Holtzman & Christopher M. Leich (eds.), Wittgenstein: To Follow A Rule, Routledge. pp. 163--87. 1981.
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23How is meaning possible?— II reply to professor TennantPhilosophical Books 26 (3): 129-132. 1985.
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117The Last WordPhilosophical Review 107 (4): 653. 1998.Like all of Nagel's work, this is a book with a message: an apparently clear, simple message, forcefully presented and repeated. The message is that there is a limit to the extent to which we can "get outside" fundamental forms of thought, including logical, mathematical, scientific, and ethical thought. "Getting outside" means taking up a biological or psychological or sociological or economic or political view of ourselves as thinkers. It also inclines many people to talk of the contingency or…Read more
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144Truth: a guideOxford University Press. 2005.The author of the highly popular book Think, which Time magazine hailed as "the one book every smart person should read to understand, and even enjoy, the key questions of philosophy," Simon Blackburn is that rara avis--an eminent thinker who is able to explain philosophy to the general reader. Now Blackburn offers a tour de force exploration of what he calls "the most exciting and engaging issue in the whole of philosophy"--the age-old war over truth. The front lines of this war are well define…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