Cambridge, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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    The Presidential Address: The Steps from Doing to Saying
    Proceedings 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
  • Ruling Passions
    Philosophy 75 (293): 454-458. 1998.
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    Goodman's paradox
    In 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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    The flight to reality
    In 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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    Moral Relativism and Moral Objectivity
    Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 58 (1): 195-198. 1998.
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    Ethics: a very short introduction
    Oxford 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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    7. Temptation
    In Mirror, Mirror: The Uses and Abuses of Self-Love, Princeton University Press. pp. 132-162. 2014.
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    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
    Sin