Welcome to Simon Blackburn's Web Page

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 half-time Research Professor at UNC Chapel Hill. 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. Students should scroll down to find Holman Hunt's painting The Awakened Conscience, which is the link to notes.

Here is a picture of me
in a native habitat:
follow it for a brief biography

Here hot off the press is my second collection of essays. Anybody finding it in bookshops under household pets, zoology, etc. please tell the management.

Here is a picture of another recent book, a meander through twenty of the questions I find most intriguing in philosophy.

Here is a picture of yet another book, a short introduction to the philosophy of David Hume.

The site now gives you seven distinct options, one for each day of the week

There is a bread and butter place for students in my current courses, or at least those whose consciences are awakened, to find notes when I have suggested that they are here to be found:
You can browse several recent papers by following this route: The picture shows you how much pleasure reading can give .
This image of the Government Command Economy Gauleiters is inadequate to the horrors awaiting you if you follow the link and learn about Higher Education in the UK.
Next, You can see an assortment of other books, remembering that Nietzsche said that a philosopher is an explosion waiting to happen.
A recent addition is the portfolio of black & white photographs with, I hope, philosophical themes, that I have taken over the years. The diagonal arrow bottom right brings up the full screen instead of the slide list.
Another thing you might want to do is to look at a bibliography to see what the fearless undaunted wanderer above the sea of fog, gazing resolutely into the Heart of Being, bringing back reports from outside the Cave, has managed to tell:
The last option is to look at reviews I have written in various organs, particularly the New Republic. These include reviews of works by Heidegger, Eco, Nussbaum, Pinker, Dawkins, Parfit and others. The ladder is to enable us reverently to approach these commanding presences, and then, with a smile or a tear, to climb down again.

Here is a picture of me in a native habitat: follow it for a brief biography
Here hot off the press is my second collection of essays. Anybody finding it in bookshops under household pets, zoology, etc. please tell the management.
Here is a picture of another recent book, a meander through twenty of the questions I find most intriguing in philosophy.
Here is a picture of yet another book, a short introduction to the philosophy of David Hume.