People who have cut their teeth on philosophical problems of rationality, knowledge, perception, free will and other minds are well placed to think better about problems of evidence, decision making, responsibility and ethics that life throws up. — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
Wittgenstein imagined that the philosopher was like a therapist whose task was to put problems finally to rest, and to cure us ofbeing bewitched by them. So we are told to stop, to shut off lines of inquiry, not to… — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
“seperate morality from its effects, and you will see that everyone regards ias a nuisance, an annoying brake on their freedom of action.” — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
The absolutist trumpets his plain vision; the relativist sees only someone who is unaware of his own spectacles. — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
The absolutist takes himself to speak to the ages, with the tongue of angels, but the relativist hears only one version among others, the… — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
When the hoary old question of nature versus nurture comes around, sides form quickly. — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
It can seem an amazing fact that laws of nature keep on holding, that the frame of nature does not fall apart. — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
“Someone sitting on a completely unreasonable belief is sitting on a time bomb. The apparently harmless, idiosyncratic belief of the Catholic Church that one… — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
Paradigms can be asked to show their worth, an some of them do not stand up. — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
“It is the thought that the least efficient way of of finding either happiness or pleasure is to pursue them. Put in terms of… — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
The absolutist takes himself to read nature in her very own language, but the relativist insists that nature does not speak, and we hear… — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
The fantasist in whom the reality barrier has broken down is unreliable, believing things when he should not, and telling things as true when… — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
This doctrine, that of the ghost in the machine, strictly separates the mind or soul from the body. And by doing so it takes… — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
