Simon Walter Blackburn is an English academic philosopher known for his work in metaethics, where he defends quasi-realism, and in the philosophy of language; more recently, he has gained a large general audience from his efforts to popularise philosophy.
He retired as professor of philosophy at the University of Cambridge in 2011, but remains a distinguished research professor of philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, teaching every fall semester.
He is also a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and a member of the professoriate of New College of the Humanities. He was previously a Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford and has also taught full-time at the University of North Carolina as an Edna J. Koury Professor. He is a former president of the Aristotelian Society, having served the 2009-2010 term.
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Practical Tortoise Raising: and other philosophical essays
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Meaning, Reference and Necessity: New Studies in Semantics
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Reason and Prediction
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The Big Questions: Philosophy
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Ethics: A Very Short Introduction
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How to Read Hume
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The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy (Oxford Quick Reference)
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Epistemic Justification
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Lust: The Seven Deadly Sins (New York Public Library Lectures in Humanities)
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Being Good: A Short Introduction to Ethics
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Ruling Passions: A Theory of Practical Reasoning
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Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy
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Essays in Quasi-Realism
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Spreading the Word : Groundings in the Philosophy of Language
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