Libros de Simon Blackburn

Plato’s Republic

• Plato is perhaps the most significant philosopher who has ever lived and the ""Republic"", composed in Athens in about 375BC, is widely regarded as his most famous dialogue. Its discussion of the perfect city - and the perfect mind...

Ethics: A Very Short Introduction

• 107 páginas
• Our self-image as moral, well-behaved creatures is dogged by scepticism, relativism, hypocrisy, and nihilism, and by the fear that in a Godless world science has unmasked us as creatures fated by our genes to be selfish and tribalistic, or competitive...

On Truth

• Truth is not just a recent topic of contention. Arguments about it have gone on for centuries. Why..

Truth: Ideas In Profile

• Ideas in Profile: Small Introductions to Big TopicsTruth has always been a thorny topic.

The Oxford Dictionary Of Philosophy

• 544 páginas
• This bestselling dictionary is written by one of the leading philosophers of our time, and it is widely recognized as the best dictionary of its kind. Comprehensive and authoritative, it covers every aspect of philosophy from Aristotle to Zen. With clear...

Expressivism, Pragmatism And Representationalism

• 204 páginas
• Pragmatists have traditionally been enemies of representationalism but friends of naturalism, when naturalism is understood to pertain to human subjects, in the sense of Hume and Nietzsche. In this volume Huw Price presents his distinctive version of this...

What Do We Know?

• In What Do We Really Know? Simon Blackburn addresses the twenty most-asked philosophical..

Think

• 320 páginas
• This introduction to philosophy considers big issues related to life, the universe, and everything, such as God, truth, justice, knowledge and consciousness. New in paperback. Written by the author of )The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy(.

Ruling Passions