Practical Tortoise Raising: and Other Philosophical Essays pdf

西蒙布莱克本是一位英国学术哲学家，以他在元伦理学方面的工作而闻名，他在其中捍卫准现实主义和语言哲学。 最近，他因努力普及哲学而赢得了广大观众。 他于 2011 年从剑桥大学哲学教授的职位上退休，但仍然是北卡罗来纳大学教堂山分校的杰出哲学研究教授，每个秋季学期都任教。 他还是剑桥大学三一学院的院士，以及新人文学院的教授成员。 他以前是牛津大学彭布罗克学院的研究员，还曾在北卡罗来纳大学担任 Edna J. Koury 教授的全职教授。 他是亚里士多德学会的前任主席，曾在 2009 年至 2010 年任期内任职。

Practical Tortoise Raising: and Other Philosophical Essays pdf 西蒙布莱克本

Simon Blackburn presents a selection of his philosophical essays from 1995 to 2010. He offers engaging and illuminating discussions of various problems which arise when such familiar notions as representation, truth, reason, and assertion are applied in the sphere of practical thought. It is puzzling how our thinking gets to grip with such things as values and norms. Blackburn explores how we can try to understand what we say in terms of what we are doing when we say it. He investigates how propositions interact with linguistic expressions whose primary function is identified in terms of actions performed in expressing commitments with them, when those commitments are thought of in practical rather than descriptive terms. He broadens his investigation from semantic questions to wider issues of pluralism, pragmatism, philosophy of mind, and the nature of practical reasoning.