Empiricist, critic of religion, sceptic as well as historian and political essayist, Hume has shaped our thinking on all these topics, defending a view on human nature and society as historically and evolutionary evolved. The diagonal arrow bottom right brings up the full screen instead of the slide list.Griph-lecture 2015 organized by the Faculty of Philosophy in cooperation with Studium Generale Groningenĭavid Hume (1711-1776) is a towering figure in the history of philosophy, who wrote extensively on human nature, on morals and on religion. This is a portfolio of black & white photographs with, I hope, philosophical themes, that I have taken over the years. Next, You can see an assortment of other books, remembering that Nietzsche said that a philosopher is an explosion waiting to happen. The ladder is to enable us reverently to approach these commanding presences, and then, with a smile or a tear, to climb down again. These include reviews of works by Heidegger, Eco, Nussbaum, Pinker, Dawkins, Parfit and others. The site now gives you five distinct options.īy following this route: The picture shows you how much pleasure reading can giveĪnother option is to look at reviews I have written in various organs. Anybody finding it in bookshops under household pets, zoology, etc. Here too is my second collection of essays. Since the book is partly about the perils of vanity I cannot unfortunately mention the brilliant review by Shahidha Bari in the THE, March 2014 although you could try clicking on the picture It was to have been called 'Because You're Worth It' but there was fear that L'Oreal might object. My previous book was a meditation on emotions directed at the self. It is about much more interesting things, to me at any rate

It claims that we cannot be post-truth, at least while we need to live and breathe.īut it's not really about Brexit and Trump, so this was deemed inappropriate. I had the idea of calling it 'Post-truth: fake news' since My most reent book is a small book on Truth, published in their 'Ideas in Profile' series by Profile Books.

Other Simon Blackburns are elsewhere in cyberspace, such as this homonymous mathematician, Link who kindly put a link to me, or nowhere in cyberspace, although let us hope somewhere in physical space.

Welcome! This is the page for those of you who want to know about the philosopher Simon Blackburn, who is a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge and Professor at the New College of the Humanities.

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