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Simon Blackburn

Professor of Philosophy (retired), University of Cambridge

Blackburn attended Clifton College and went on to receive his bachelor’s degree in philosophy in 1965 from Trinity College, Cambridge.

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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What Do We Really Know?: The Big Questions in Philosophy

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