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Some remarks about minimalismIn Crispin Wright & Annalisa Coliva (eds.), Mind, Meaning, and Knowledge: Themes From the Philosophy of Crispin Wright, Oxford University Press. 2012.
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Ethics, religion, scienceIn John Skorupski (ed.), The Routledge Companion to Ethics, Routledge. 2010.
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25Analysis, Description and the A PrioriIn Ian Ravenscroft (ed.), Minds, Ethics, and Conditionals: Themes from the Philosophy of Frank Jackson, Oxford University Press. pp. 23. 2008.
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3The absolute conception : Putnam vs WilliamsIn Daniel Callcut (ed.), Reading Bernard Williams, Routledge. 2008.
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16Pascal's WagerIn Steven M. Cahn (ed.), Exploring Philosophy: An Introductory Anthology, Oxford University Press. 2009.
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115Losing your mind: Physics, identity, and folk burglar preventionIn John D. Greenwood (ed.), The Future of Folk Psychology, Cambridge University Press. pp. 196. 1991.
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267Supervenience revisitedIn Ian Hacking (ed.), Exercises in Analysis: Essays by Students of Casimir Lewy, Cambridge University Press. pp. 59--74. 1984.
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148Circles, finks, smells and biconditionalsPhilosophical Perspectives 7 (Language and Logic): 259-279. 1993.
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74How to refer to private experienceProceedings of the Aristotelian Society 75 201-213. 1975.Simon Blackburn; XIII*—How to Refer to Private Experience, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Volume 75, Issue 1, 1 June 1975, Pages 201–214, https://doi.
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48The Oxford Dictionary of PhilosophyPhilosophical Review 105 (2): 250. 1996.Within a year of each other, three one-volume general dictionaries of philosophy have recently appeared; when our future colleagues in philosophy look back on the 1990s they may well think of it as the decade of reference works. But however productive these years may prove to be in this genre, clearly visible somewhere around the top of the heap will be this handy, useful, entertaining, and instructive contribution from Simon Blackburn. Its two immediate competitors are the Cambridge Dictionary …Read more
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97Reason and PredictionCambridge University Press. 1973.An original study of the philosophical problems associated with inductive reasoning. Like most of the main questions in epistemology, the classical problem of induction arises from doubts about a mode of inference used to justify some of our most familiar and pervasive beliefs. The experience of each individual is limited and fragmentary, yet the scope of our beliefs is much wider; and it is the relation between belief and experience, in particular the belief that the future will in some respect…Read more
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431Essays in quasi-realismOxford University Press. 1993.This volume collects some influential essays in which Simon Blackburn, one of our leading philosophers, explores one of the most profound and fertile of philosophical problems: the way in which our judgments relate to the world. This debate has centered on realism, or the view that what we say is validated by the way things stand in the world, and a variety of oppositions to it. Prominent among the latter are expressive and projective theories, but also a relaxed pluralism that discourages the v…Read more
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302Truth and a Priori Possibility: Egan’s Charge Against Quasi RealismAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 87 (2): 201-213. 2009.In this journal Andy Egan argued that, contrary to what I have claimed, quasi-realism is committed to a damaging asymmetry between the way a subject regards himself and the way he regards others. In particular, a subject must believe it to be a priori that if something is one of his stable or fundamental beliefs, then it is true. Whereas he will not hold that this is a priori true of other people. In this paper I rebut Egan's argument, and give further consideration to the correct way to think a…Read more
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36Interview - Simon BlackburnThe Philosophers' Magazine 40 38-39. 2008.Cambridge professor Simon Blackburn is best known to the general public as the author of several books of popular philosophy such as ink, Being Good andTruth: a Guide for the Perplexed. Academic philosophers also know him as the author of one of the most important books of contemporary moral philosophy, Ruling Passions, and as a former editor of the leading journal Mind.
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709Spreading the Word: Groundings in the Philosophy of LanguageClarendon Press. 1984.Provides a comprehensive introduction to the major philosophical theories attempting to explain the workings of language.
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124The steps from doing to sayingProceedings of the Aristotelian Society 110 (1pt1): 1-13. 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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University of North Carolina, Chapel HillDistinguished Research Professor (Part-time)
Cambridge, England