Author: Simon Blackburn
Publisher: Allen Lane
Keywords: perplexed, guide, truth
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2005-05-26
List price: $26.85
ISBN-10: 0713997184
ISBN-13: 9780713997187

Truth: A Guide will be an essential sure-footed companion through the territory - a study of truth, and the enemies of truth, and the wars that have been fought between them, from classical to modern times. It will look at relativism and absolutism, toleration and belief, objectivity and knowledge, science and pseudo-science, and explore the moral and political implications, as well as the nuances, of these concepts in the struggle to determine what we mean by ’the truth’.

Author: Simon Blackburn
Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
Keywords: philosophy, introduction, compelling, think
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2001-03-15
List price: $14.12
ISBN-10: 0192854259
ISBN-13: 9780192854254

This is a book about the big questions in life: knowledge, consciousness, fate, God, truth, goodness, justice. It is for anyone who believes there are big questions out there, but does not know how to approach them. Think sets out to explain what they are and why they are important. Simon Blackburn begins by putting forward a convincing case for the study of philosophy and goes on to give the reader a sense of how the great historical figures such as Descartes, Hume, Kant, and Wittgenstein have approached its central themes. Each chapter explains a major issue, and gives the reader a self-con

Author: Simon Blackburn
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: ethics, introduction, short
Number of Pages: 172
Published: 2003-04-17
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0192853775
ISBN-13: 9780192853776

Writing with wit and elegance, Simon Blackburn tackles the basic questions of ethics in this lively book, highlighting the complications and troubling issues that spring from the very simple question of how we ought to live. Blackburn dissects the many common reasons for why we are skeptical about ethics. Drawing on examples from history, politics, religion and everyday personal experience, he shows how cynicism and self-consciousness can paralyze us into considering ethics a hopeless pursuit. He assures us that ethics is neither futile nor irrelevant, but an intimate part of the most importan

Author: Simon Blackburn
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: philosophy, introduction, compelling, think
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 1999-10-14
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0192100246
ISBN-13: 9780192100245

Here at last is a coherent, unintimidating introduction to the challenging and fascinating landscape of Western philosophy. Written expressly for "anyone who believes there are big questions out there, but does not know how to approach them," Think provides a sound framework for exploring the most basic themes of philosophy, and for understanding how major philosophers have tackled the questions that have pressed themselves most forcefully on human consciousness. Simon Blackburn, author of the best-selling Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy, begins by making a convincing case for the relevanc

Author: Simon Blackburn
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: oxford, reference, paperback, philosophy, dictionary
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2007-03-05
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0198610130
ISBN-13: 9780198610137

Comprehensive and authoritative the Dictionary of Philosophy contains over 2,500 entries, including biographies of nearly 500 influential philosophers. The dictionary provides wide-ranging and lively coverage of not only Western philosophical traditions, but also themes from Chinese, Indian, Islamic, and Jewish philosophy. This clear and easy to use reference also contains in-depth analysis of philosophical terms and concepts, and a chronology of philosophical events stretching from 10,000 BC to the present day.

Author: Simon Blackburn
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: realism, quasi, essays
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 1993-06-17
List price: $60.00
ISBN-10: 0195082249
ISBN-13: 9780195082241

This volume collects some influential essays in which Simon Blackburn, one of our leading philosophers, explores one of the most profound and fertile of philosophical problems: the way in which our judgments relate to the world. This debate has centered on realism, or the view that what we say is validated by the way things stand in the world, and a variety of oppositions to it. Prominent among the latter are expressive and projective theories, but also a relaxed pluralism that discourages the view that there are substantial issues at stake. The figure of the "quasi-realist" dramatizes the d

Author: Simon Blackburn
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: realism, quasi, essays
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 1993-06-17
List price: $150.00
ISBN-10: 0195080416
ISBN-13: 9780195080414

This volume collects some influential essays in which Simon Blackburn, one of our leading philosophers, explores one of the most profound and fertile of philosophical problems: the way in which our judgments relate to the world. This debate has centered on realism, or the view that what we say is validated by the way things stand in the world, and a variety of oppositions to it. Prominent among the latter are expressive and projective theories, but also a relaxed pluralism that discourages the view that there are substantial issues at stake. The figure of the "quasi-realist" dramatizes the