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 Buy the Book
Meaning, Reference and Necessity: New Studies in Semantics Buy the Book
Reason and Prediction Buy the Book
The Big Questions: Philosophy Buy the Book
Ethics: A Very Short Introduction Buy the Book
How to Read Hume Buy the Book
The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy (Oxford Quick Reference) Buy the Book
Epistemic Justification Buy the Book
Lust: The Seven Deadly Sins (New York Public Library Lectures in Humanities) Buy the Book
Being Good: A Short Introduction to Ethics Buy the Book
Ruling Passions: A Theory of Practical Reasoning Buy the Book
Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy Buy the Book
Essays in Quasi-Realism Buy the Book
Spreading the Word : Groundings in the Philosophy of Language Buy the Book
