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23How is meaning possible?— II reply to professor TennantPhilosophical Books 26 (3): 129-132. 1985.
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23C. D. Broad: Key Unpublished WritingsRoutledge. 2022.Although Broad published many books in his lifetime, this volume is unique in presenting some of his most interesting unpublished writings. Divided into five clear sections, the following figures and topics are covered: Autobiography, Hegel and the nature of philosophy, Francis Bacon, Hume's philosophy of the self and belief, F. H. Bradley, The historical development of scientific thought from Pythagoras to Newton, Causation, Change and continuity, Quantitativ…Read more
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20Dictionary of PhilosophyOxford University Press UK. 2005.This best-selling dictionary is written by one of the most famous philosophers of our time, and it is widely recognized as the best dictionary of its kind. Comprehensive and authoritative, it covers every aspect of philosophy from Aristotle to Zen. With clear and concise definitions, it provides lively and accessible coverage of not only Western philosophical traditions, but also themes from Chinese, Indian, Islamic, and Jewish philosophy. Entries include over 500 biographies of famous and influ…Read more
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20Reason and PassionIn Hugh LaFollette (ed.), The International Encyclopedia of Ethics, Blackwell. 2013.
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205. Self-Esteem, Amour Propre, PrideIn Mirror, Mirror: The Uses and Abuses of Self-Love, Princeton University Press. pp. 79-108. 2014.
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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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201. 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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18This is the text of The Lindley Lecture for 2004, given by Simon Blackburn, a British philosopher.
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18Pragmatism in Philosophy: The Hidden AlternativePhilosophic Exchange 41 (1). 2011.This paper contrasts two ways of understanding the function of human thought and language. According to representationalism, the function of thought and language is to refer to entities in the world and assert truths about them. By contrast, pragmatism seeks to understand the function of thought and language without any such appeal, at the most fundamental level, to the concepts of truth or reference.
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17On TruthOxford University Press. 2018.The classic approaches -- Correspondence -- Coherence -- Pragmatism -- Deflationism -- Tarski and the semantic theory of truth -- Summary of part I -- Varieties of enquiry -- Truths of taste; truth in art -- Truth in ethics -- Reason -- Religion and truth -- Interpretations.
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17Meaning, Reference and Necessity: New Studies in Semantics (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 1975.A volume of studies in philosophical logic by a group of younger philosophers in the UK. There is a core of problems in the theory of meaning which have been accorded a central importance by philosophers, logicians and theoretical linguists, and which have stimulated some of the most powerful and original work in these subjects. The contributors to the volume have a common interest in these topics, insist on their continuing and fundamental importance, and offer here a distinctive and original c…Read more
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17How can we tell whether a commitment has a truth conditionIn Charles Travis (ed.), Meaning and interpretation, Blackwell. pp. 201--232. 1986.
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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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15Platos 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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13The Inaugural Address: Paradise RegainedAristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 79. 2005.In this paper I consider some of the vicissitudes that the epistemology of the empirical world has suffered in the last half-century. I cast doubt on some of the ruling metaphors of the area, and on the flight from empiricism and foundationalism that they have assisted. But I also reject attempts to secure a better epistemology that themselves collaborate with the same fundamental mistakes, and in particular that of a spatial conception of the mind.
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12Moral Relativism and Moral ObjectivityPhilosophical and Phenomenological Research 58 (1): 199-206. 1998.
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University of North Carolina, Chapel HillDistinguished Research Professor (Part-time)
Cambridge, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland