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Zusatztext Anyone who has any interest in Blackburn's workor more generally in any version of expressivism, projectivism, prescriptivism, pragmatism, or antirealism should get their hands on this volume. Informationen zum Autor Robert Johnson is Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Philosophy Department at the University of Missouri, Columbia, and was a student of Blackburn's at UNC Chapel Hill in the 1990s.Michael Smith is McCosh Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Philosophy Department at Princeton University; he was a student of Blackburn's at Oxford University in the 1980s. Klappentext This volume presents fourteen original essays which explore the philosophy of Simon Blackburn, and his lifetime pursuit of a distinctive projectivist and anti-realist research program. The essays document the range and influence of Blackburn's work and reveal, among other things, the resourcefulness of his brand of philosophical pragmatism. Zusammenfassung This volume presents fourteen original essays which explore the philosophy of Simon Blackburn, and his lifetime pursuit of a distinctive projectivist and anti-realist research program. The essays document the range and influence of Blackburn's work and reveal, among other things, the resourcefulness of his brand of philosophical pragmatism. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Apologia pro Vita Sua Part One: Metaphysics and Epistemology 1: Louise Antony: Defending Folk Psychology: The Limits of Coalitions 2: Helen Beebee: Causation, Projection, Inference, and Agency 3: Frank Jackson: Singular Belief 4: C. S. I. Jenkins: What Quasi-Realists Can Say About Knowledge 5: Robert Kraut: The Metaphysics of Artistic Expression: A Case Study in Projectivism 6: Rae Langton: The Impossible Necessity of 'Filling in Space' 7: Cynthia Macdonald: What is Colour? A Defense of Colour Primitivism 8: Huw Price: From Quasi-Realism to Global Expressivism--and Back Again? Part Two: Metaethics and Moral Psychology 9: Jamie Dreier: Another World: The Metaethics and Metametaethics of Reasons Fundamentalism 10: Allan Gibbard: Improving Sensibilities 11: Terry Horgan and Mark Timmons: Modest Quasi-Realism and the Problem of Deep Moral Error 12: Peter Railton: Just How Do Passions Rule? The (More) Compleat Humean 13: Mark Schroeder: Higher-Order Attitudes, Frege's Abyss, and the Truth in Propositions 14: R. Jay Wallace: The Fugitive Thought: Blackburn on Reasons ...
