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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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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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1The 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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4Moral Relativism and Moral ObjectivityPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 58 (1): 195-198. 1998.
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14Ethics: 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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4Lust: 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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University of North Carolina, Chapel HillDistinguished Research Professor (Part-time)
Cambridge, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland