Simon Blackburn
English academic philosopher
Simon Blackburn is an English philosopher known for work in metaethics and the philosophy of language. He has also written for general readers, including Think.
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British Born 1944 in Chipping Sodbury, United Kingdom
About Simon Blackburn
Simon Blackburn was born in 1944 and is an English philosopher. His best-known academic work is in metaethics, where he defends a view called quasi-realism, and in the philosophy of language. Blackburn has taught at Oxford, Cambridge and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He was a Fellow and Tutor at Pembroke College, Oxford, from 1969 to 1990, and he retired as Professor of Philosophy at Cambridge in 2011. In 2002 the British Academy elected him to its fellowship. His books include the best-selling Think, aimed at a general audience, and Ethics. He has also written The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy and Being Good.