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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 .
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 ...
Blackburn, Simon (2016), 3rd ed. The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy. Description & arrow-scrollable preview. Oxford University Press, 541 pp. Oxford. ISBN 978-0-19 ...
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.
Simon Blackburn – philosopher, founder of quasi-realism; Frederick S. Boas – English scholar; Horatio Brown – historian; Norman O. Brown – author, philosopher; Charles Coulson – mathematician and theoretical chemist; G. E. M. de Ste. Croix Classical scholar; Sir Charles Firth – historian; Paul Grice – philosopher of language
More recently, Simon Blackburn has been a major proponent of projectivism. Blackburn's projectivism is a version of meta-ethical anti-realism. Blackburn conveys anti-realism as the view that statements which express moral properties are constructed, and realism as the view that moral properties somehow exist independently of moral agents.
Simon Blackburn has argued that whatever positions they may take in books, articles or lectures, naive realism is the view of "philosophers when they are off-duty." [ 15 ] History
The philosopher Simon Blackburn, reviewing the book, described Harris as "a knockabout atheist" who "joins the prodigious ranks of those whose claim to have transcended philosophy is just an instance of their doing it very badly", pointing out that "if Bentham's hedonist is in one brain state and Aristotle's active subject is in another, as no ...