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Simon Walter Blackburn FBA (born 12 July 1944) 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 .
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Blackburn, Simon (2016), 3rd ed. The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy. Description & arrow-scrollable preview. Oxford University Press, 541 pp. Oxford. ISBN 978-0-19 ...
Sainsbury described the book as well-written, but criticized Blackburn's discussion of knowledge. [3] The writer Peter Edidin wrote in The New York Times that the book "found a sizable audience", noting that more than 30,000 hardcover copies had been sold and that "Oxford has asked Mr. Blackburn to follow up with Being Good, a guide to the ...
The coherence of Blackburn's quasi-realism has been challenged most notably by the Frege–Geach problem, which asserts Blackburn's position is self-contradictory. Advocates of Blackburn's view, however, would contend that quasi-realism in fact provides an antidote to the Frege–Geach problem by placing different moral claims in context.
A former Playboy model killed herself and her 7-year-old son after jumping from a hotel in Midtown New York City on Friday morning. The New York Post reports that 47-year-old Stephanie Adams ...
Amanda Blackburn with her infant son. Blackburn was fatally wounded Nov. 10, 2015 during a home invasion in her Indianapolis home. Her husband, Davey Blackburn, has written a book about forgiveness.
Simon Blackburn in Spreading the Word (1984) has accused the language of thought hypothesis of falling prey to an infinite regress. If a person understands a word like "dog" through a mental representation which indicates that the word denotes dogs, then a regress takes place.