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	EducationGuardian.co.uk \| Books \| Review: Truth by Simon Blackburn
		Simon Blackburn is professor of philosophy at Cambridge, and the author of fine popularising books such as The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy and Being Good: A Short Introduction to Ethics.
		Blackburn opens his introduction with a rousing call to arms, which might be a preparation for an assault on the likes of Rorty and other "fuzzy" - the adjective is Rorty's own - postmodernist philosophers and pundits, and which would likely be much to the taste of the latest Vicar of Christ:
		However, it is Blackburn's intention, he tells us, not to join battle in the philosophy wars but to tread his way delicately among the warring parties, with us at his heels and under his protection.
	education.guardian.co.uk /higher/books/story/0,10595,1488752,00.html (1230 words)

	Simon Blackburn - The British philosopher's take on truth. By Stephen Metcalf
		Simon Blackburn's new book, Truth: A Guide is an attempt to alarm us into believing in something he calls "the Truth Wars." For Blackburn, the credo has become too credulous, while standards of evidence have been allowed to erode.
		Blackburn starts the book with a discussion of William James, later goes back as far as Locke and Bishop Berkeley and Kant, and has generously long sections on recent analytic philosophers, some of whom he admires, like Quine, and some he deplores, such as Sellars.
		Blackburn is himself a philosophy professor at Cambridge University, best-known in professional circles for a doctrine he pioneered called "quasi-realism." Blackburn the quasi-realist is widely recognized as a lucid, careful, and generous philosopher.
	www.slate.com /id/2127063/?nav=navoa (1493 words)

	Simon Blackburn - The British philosopher's "Truth Wars." By Stephen Metcalf
		Over the period in the history of the Anglo-American university Blackburn identifies as coinciding with the broader societal decline he decries, philosophy departments were ruled by analytic philosophers, direct descendants of the logical positivists he professes to adore, and the avowed enemies of the hermeneuticists he clearly detests.
		Blackburn's Truth Wars would pit right-brain adepts of the math and sciences against the left-brain adepts of the humanities, but this is a tendentious morality play meant to fret the public imagination without taking into account the actual intellectual or institutional history of the American university.
		Blackburn doesn't ever let on, but the unacknowledged conflict at the heart of Truth is between two opposing camps within the humanities over what the humanities should look like given the unchallenged pre-eminence of the natural sciences.
	www.slate.com /id/2127243/?nav=navoa (1416 words)

	The Heavyweights in Small Doses > Endeavors, Spring 2000
		Blackburn’s goal is to get his readers to enjoy philosophy.
		Blackburn first explains the issue, then introduces some of the great thinkers that have had something to say on the subject.
		Though Blackburn provides many philosophical explanations, his point is not to answer questions, but to raise them.
	research.unc.edu /endeavors/spr2000/Blackburn.htm (546 words)

	Hamilton College - News, Sports, Events - Cambridge Professor Simon Blackburn Delivers Truax Lecture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Werner said during Blackburnâs introduction, âHis defense of quasi-realism as expressivism and projectivism in ethics plus a minimalist theory of truth are already classics waiting to be mined by present and future generations.
		Blackburn began his lecture by discussing meta-ethics in the debate of religion versus liberalism, as well as the two types of reactions to post-modernism.
		Blackburn used both philosophical and âcommon senseâ examples to illustrate philosophical ideas of âcoping versus copying.â He then argued that we should be able to combine both objective âwrongsâ and cultural âwrongs.â Opinions are not purely subjective, he claimed, and one âcan get to uncontaminated facts.â
	www.hamilton.edu /news/more_news/display.cfm?id=9328 (762 words)

	Telegraph \| Arts \| The thinking man's sin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Simon Blackburn's treatise on erotic desire is part of a series on the seven deadly sins, published by Oxford University Press in conjunction with the New York Public Library.
		One sees why everyone at the symposium was drunk: they had to be legless to swallow Plato's argument, as the great philosopher clumsily substituted one object for another, until he turned desire on its head and made the squat septuagenarian Socrates the pin-up boy of ancient Athens.
		The problem with traditional views of lust, as Blackburn realises, is the way they focus on the object of desire.
	www.arts.telegraph.co.uk /arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2004/02/22/bobla22.xml&sSheet=/arts/2004/02/22/bomain.html (698 words)

	Simon Blackburn's Reflections on Iconoclast Richard Rorty :: Ephilosopher :: Philosophy News, Research and ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Simon Blackburn's Reflections on Iconoclast Richard Rorty
		Blackburn's summary of Rorty's thinking is generally fair and accurate.
		Where Blackburn claims that a map is good because it corresponds better with the world, Rorty might reply, believe what you will, as long as it guides me (or anything or anyone else I'm interested in) to the right place, that's good enough for me.
	www.ephilosopher.com /article406.html (509 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Lust: The Seven Deadly Sins (New York Public Library Lectures in Humanities): Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Blackburn, author of such popular philosophy books as Think and Being Good, here offers a sharp-edged probe into the heart of lust, blending together insight from some of the world's greatest thinkers on sex, human nature, and our common cultural foibles.
		Blackburn takes a wide ranging, historical approach, discussing lust as viewed by Aristophanes and Plato, lust in the light of the Stoic mistrust of emotion, and the Christian fear of the flesh that catapulted lust to the level of deadly sin.
		He points to the work of David Hume (Blackburn's favorite philosopher) who saw lust not only as a sensual delight but also "a joy of the mind." Written by one of the most eminent living philosophers, attractively illustrated and colourfully packaged, Lust is a book that anyone would lust over.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0195162005 (799 words)

	New Statesman - Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Blackburn is not, mind you, one of those old-fashioned dons described by Hilaire Belloc, who "shout and bang and roar and bawl/The Absolute across the hall".
		But where Blackburn strikes me as over-optimistic is in his assumption that our intellectual practices are in themselves perfectly healthy, that the virus of doubt enters only from without.
		Thus while Blackburn is right to shift the focus of debate away from theory and on to practice, he is wrong to assume - and it is a very British assumption - that practice can look after itself.
	www.newstatesman.com /Bookshop/300000098213 (1283 words)

	Transcript of Kenan Malik's radio broadcast 'The Origins of Values'
		But Blackburn is surely right that the loss of faith and the demand for certainty are opposite sides of the same coin.
		SIMON BLACKBURN People looked at nature and inferred that unbridled competition and aggression were the admirable ways for human being to behave.
		SIMON BLACKBURN I fear that the tendency to go fundamentalist is a tendency that can't put up with the fragile way in which we stand on our own feet.
	www.kenanmalik.com /tv/analysis_value.html (3816 words)

	Powell's Books - Truth: A Guide for the Baffled by Simon Blackburn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Now Blackburn offers a tour de force exploration of what he calls the most exciting and engaging issue in the whole of philosophy--the age-old war over truth.
		Among the questions Blackburn considers are: is science mere opinion, can historians understand another historical period, and indeed can one culture ever truly understand another.
		Blackburn concludes that both sides have merit, and that neither has exclusive ownership of truth.
	www.powells.com /biblio/1-0195168240-0 (258 words)

	Alibris: Simon Blackburn
		Blackburn's rare combination of depth, rigor, and sparkling prose mark "Being Good" as an important statement on the current disenchantment with ethics and challenge readers to ponder more carefully their own standard of behavior.
		Distinguished philosopher Simon Blackburn seeks the answers to such questions in this brilliant exploration of the nature of moral emotions and the structures of human motivation.
		Blackburn seeks the answers to such questions in an exploration of the nature of moral emotions and the structures of human...
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Simon_Blackburn (527 words)

	Think: a Compelling Introduction to Philosophy by Simon Blackburn, Search Cheap Books, Discount Books, ISBN 0192854259
		Blackburn has written this book as a defense of philosophy as a practical tool for making sense of the world in which we live.
		Blackburn turns his attention to the topics of philosophy: Does free exist, is there a god, how do we know what we know.
		Blackburn starts with Descartes and the modern age of philosophy rather than boring us with page upon page of medieval or ancient philosophy that is almost impossible to understand in an introduction to philosophy because of the sheer amount of context such material requires to be understood.
	www.comparebookprices.ca /book_detail/0192854259 (1451 words)

	Simon Blackburn
		Simon Blackburn is professor of philosophy at the University of Cambridge.
		Simon Blackburn on John Polkinghorne, science, religion, and self-deception.
		Simon Blackburn on Martha C. Nussbaum's Upheavals of Thought: The Intelligence of Emotions.
	www.tnr.com /showBio.mhtml?pid=59&sa=1 (74 words)

	Amazon.com: Lust: The Seven Deadly Sins (The Seven Deadly Sins): Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		But Blackburn is so confident of being on the side of the angels that he creates devils that aren't really there, like the feminist concept of "objectification," which he conflates with lust itself.
		Blackburn's main philosophical defense of lust is, surprisingly, the seventeenth-century philosopher Thomas Hobbes, who is not usually noted for liberal views.
		Blackburn is both pithy and deep, spends perhaps a bit too long on the history of the greeks, and a bit too little time getting in his digs at feminists and Catholics, but the book is fun, quick, quotable, and convincing.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0195162005?v=glance (3030 words)

	Building a home philosophy library
		Blackburn's aim is to show the reader how the philosophy of language is done, rather than give an overview of the subject.
		Blackburn manages to keep a grip on all these issues and give the reader a sense of the tensions inherent in the triad.
		Blackburn argues there are two possible approaches to this problem.
	www.philosophers.co.uk /cafe/library22.htm (463 words)

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		First, because Blackburn - at least by the standards of Cambridge philosophy professors - has a sense of mischief; and, second, because he can squeeze a lot out of one dodgy quotation.
		Blackburn cites only one example of a philosopher who voluntarily decided to shut up, and that was nearly two and a half thousand years ago.
		Simon Blackburn is a trendy don, and this has drawbacks as well as advantages.
	www.arts.telegraph.co.uk /core/Content/displayPrintable.jhtml?xml=/arts/2005/06/12/bobla12.xml&site=6 (671 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Truth: A Guide - Simon Blackburn - Hardcover (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Now Blackburn offers a tour de force exploration of what he calls "the most exciting and engaging issue in the whole of philosophy"—the age-old war over truth.
		Blackburn (philosophy, Univ. of Cambridge; Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy) wants to help readers attain a philosophical understanding of the concept of "truth." What does it mean, he asks, to make a statement that asserts this concept?
		Blackburn reviews what philosophers, writers, novelists, scientists, and disparate thinkers have had to say about it, including Plato, Francis Bacon, Voltaire, Locke, Hume, Wittgenstein, William James, Rorty, and Nietzsche-especially Rorty and Nietzsche owing to their central and contrasting views.
	search.barnesandnoble.com /booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?isbn=0195168240 (461 words)

	Simon Blackburn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Simon Blackburn (born 1944) is a British academic philosopher also known for his efforts to popularise philosophy.
		Blackburn Essay 'In defence of lust' in The New Statesman
		This page was last modified 11:10, 27 October 2005.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Simon_Blackburn (246 words)

	Ruling Passions -- A Theory of Practical Reasoning -- Simon Blackburn
		Simon Blackburn puts forward a compelling and original philosophy of human motivation and morality.
		Blackburn seeks the answers to such questions in an exploration of the nature of moral emotions and the structures of human motivation.
		Previously he was the Edna J. Koury Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and Adjunct Professor at the Australian National University's Research School of Social Sciences.
	www.frontlist.com /detail/0198247850 (214 words)

	The Observer \| Review \| Observer review: Truth by Simon Blackburn
		Simon Blackburn's Truth is an elegant introduction to this most elusive abstraction, says Zoe L Green
		Simon Blackburn's elegant yet challenging introduction to 'the most exciting and engaging issue in philosophy' demonstrates that however murky our individual concept of truth may be, it is the linchpin of how and what we let ourselves think.
		Blackburn hops on the back of each philosophical hobby horse for as long as it takes to explain the markings, but does not force one to purchase the pony.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /review/story/0,6903,1548048,00.html (214 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This may be seen as conservatism from Blackburn, but it does allow him to give the book a brevity which is excellent.
		The analysis that Blackburn gives on the nature of interpretation of colour and light is seriously flawed, in that his example of scattering dust on a window to highlight the differences between someone that sees monochromatically as we might (whatever that is!!!) and someone who sees in exact negative does not tally.
		How such a mistake occurred in a book that is otherwise well researched is beyond me, but is something that is made note worthy by the fact it is so out of character with the rest of the book.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0192854259 (1103 words)

	Simon Blackburn's Home Page
		S.R. Blackburn and E. Teske, `Baby-step giant-step algorithms for non-uniform distributions', in Proceedings of ANTS IV, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1838, W. Bosma (Ed.) (Springer, Berlin, 2000), pp.
		S.R. Blackburn, `A Generalisation of the Discrete Fourier Transform', in Applications of Finite Fields, Proceedings of a conference held at Royal Holloway, University of London, Surrey, U.K., D. Gollmann (Ed.) (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1996), pp.
		S.R. Blackburn, `A Generalisation of the Discrete Fourier Transform: Determining the Minimal Polynomial of a Periodic Sequence' IEEE Trans.
	www.cs.rhbnc.ac.uk /~simonb (900 words)

	Simon Blackburn In Defence of Lust :: Ephilosopher :: Philosophy News, Research and Philosophical Discussion
		Simon Blackburn In Defence of Lust :: Ephilosopher :: Philosophy News, Research and Philosophical Discussion
		Simon Blackburn: "...it might seem quixotic or paradoxical, or even indecent, to try and speak up for lust.
		The philosopher David Hume wrote that a virtue was any quality of mind "useful or agreeable to the person himself or to others".
	www.ephilosopher.com /article700.html (265 words)

	LRB \| letters from Vol. 27 No. 4 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Simon Blackburn and Jeremy Waldron explain the paradox of analysis as I would understand it, and then quote a sentence from Lacey that they think encapsulates it.
		Blackburn and Waldron refer to my ‘unkind speculations about the hidden agenda of the book’, but my response to Lacey’s repeated complaints about Hart’s neglect of sociology refers to nothing hidden.
		She looks for unacknowledged reasons for his neglect, and I simply say this shows that she undervalues the philosophical approach which was the source of his contributions.
	www.lrb.co.uk /v27/n04/letters.html (1822 words)

	Truth: A Guide for the Perplexed - Simon Blackburn - Penguin UK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Simon Blackburn’s wise, witty and stimulating new book is a sure-footed companion through this thorny territory, showing us the different ways in which we have interpreted and sought the truth from classical to modern times.
		This essential guide to truth, the enemies of truth and the wars that have been fought between them steers a clear path through ideas such as relativism and absolutism, toleration and belief, objectivity and knowledge and the new religions of ‘Science’ and ‘the Market’.
		It introduces figures from Plato and Locke to Nietzsche and Foucault, and explores the moral and political implications, as well as the nuances, of the many conflicting concepts in the struggle to determine what we really mean by ‘the truth’.
	www.penguin.co.uk /nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,0_0713997184,00.html (292 words)

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