CURRICULUM VITAE OF SIMON BLACKBURN, FBA Education Fellow of the British Academy, 2001. Honorary LLD, University of Sunderland, 1998. PhD, Cambridge, 1970: ‘The Problem of Induction’, examined Professors A.J. Ayer and M. Hesse. Part 2 Moral Sciences Tripos (Logic), BA degree, 1965. Senior Scholar of Trinity 1964 Part 1 Moral Sciences Tripos (1964). Trinity College, Cambridge 1962. Clifton College, Bristol 1957–61 (Scholar). Professional Experience Distinguished Research Professor of Philosophy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2008-present Professor of Philosophy, University of Cambridge, 2001-present. Fellow Emeritus, Pembroke College Oxford Erskine Fellow, University of Canterbury, Summer 2001. Visiting Distinguished Professor, C.U.N.Y. Graduate School, Spring 1998, Spring 1999, Fall 1999, Fall 2003 Visiting Professor, University of Bari, Italy, Summer 1995 Adjunct Professor, Australian National University, 1993—present Edna J. Koury Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 1990—2000. Nelson Visiting Lecturer, U. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Fall 1988 Visiting Distinguished Professor, Ohio State University, Spring 1988 Distinguished Visitor to Poland (Cracow) October 1987 Distinguished Visitor to University of Calgary, January 1987 Visiting Professor, Princeton University, Spring 1987 Research Readership of the British Academy, 1986—88. Editor of Mind 1985—90 Visiting Distinguished Professor, Oberlin College, Fall 1984 Chairman, Board of PPE examiners, Oxford, 1983 Radcliffe Research Fellowship, 1980—1982 Visiting Professor, Universidad Autonomia de Mexico, 1982 Visiting Associate Professor, University of British Columbia, 1976 Visiting Associate Professor, University of Melbourne, 1975 Dean of Pembroke, 1971—1974 Fellow & Lecturer in Philosophy, Pembroke College, Oxford 1969—1990 Research Fellowship, Churchill College Cambridge 1967—69 1 Honors Hagerstrom Lectures, University of Uppsala, Sweden 2008 Erasmus Professor in the Humanities, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, 2007 Ryle Lectures, Trent University, Canada, 2007 Gavin David Young lectures, Adelaide, 2007. Stanislaw Kaminski lectures, University of Lublin, Spring 2006. Lewis Frumkes Annual Lecturer, NYU, Fall 2005 Truax lecturer, Hamilton College, NY, Spring 2005 Lindley Lecture, University of Kansas, Fall 2004 Gifford Lectures, University of Glasgow, Spring 2004 Michael Lumsden Memorial Lecture, University of Nottingham, 2003 Justin Hartnack Memorial Lecture, University of Arhus, 2002 Voltaire Lecture, British Humanists Association 2001 Brown Memorial Lecture, University of Vermont, Spring 2001 Selfridge Distinguished Visitor, Lehigh University, Fall 2000. Frank Fraser Potter Memorial Lecture, Washington State University, Fall 1997 Louis Loeb Memorial Lecture, Emory University, Spring 1997 Radhakrishnan Memorial Lecture, Indian Institute for Advanced Study, Simla, 1995 Wittgenstein Lecturer, University of Bayreuth, July 1992 Gail Stine Memorial Lecture, Wayne State Detroit Spring 1991 R.B. MacCallum Memorial Lecture, Pembroke College Oxford, 1989. E.W. Hall Memorial lecture at the University of Iowa, 1989. Franklin J. Matchette Lecture at the City University of New York, 1988. Books and Chapters Plato’s Republic, New York: Grove Atlantic, 2006. Truth: A Guide for the Perplexed. Penguin Books (UK) and OUP (New York) Spring 2005. Lust New York: Oxford University Press, 2004 Being Good. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 172pp., 2001. (reprinted as A Very Short Introduction to Ethics, 2003) Think, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 312pp. 1999. Truth (edited with Keith Simmons), Oxford: Oxford University Press, vi + 406 pp. 1999. Ruling Passions. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1994. (trans. into Portuguese, Greek, Polish, Turkish, Serbian, Estonian, Rumanian, Mandarin etc.) Essays In Quasi-Realism, New York, Oxford University Press, 1993 Spreading the Word, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1984 Philosophical Logic, Open University Text, 1981 Meaning, Reference and Necessity, (ed.) Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1975 Reason and Prediction, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1973 2 I have not attempted to keep up with translations, although Oxford University Press informs me that my books have been translated into eighteen languages, including Japanese and Taiwanese. Plato’s Republic is currently being translated into thirteen languages. Refereed papers/articles ‘Julius Caesar and George Berkeley Play Leapfrog’, in McDowell and his Critics, ed. C. & G. MacDonald, 2006. ‘Success Semantics’ in Hugh Mellor, ed. Ramsey’s Legacy, Cambridge: Cambridge University press, 2005. ‘Quasi-Realism No Fictionalism’, in Mark Kalderon, ed. Moral Fictionalism, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. ‘Must we Weep for Sentimentalism’ in J. Dreier, ed., Contemporary Ethics, Blackwell, 2005. ‘Is there a Crisis of Truth’ in the Humanities?’ British Academy address, Fall 2002. Summary and Replies, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 2002, ‘Realism: Deconstructing the Debate’ Ratio, xv, June 2002, 111–34 ‘Normativity a la Mode’ Journal of Ethics, 2001, 139 – 153. ‘Logical Humanism’ The New Republic, April 2000, 95—100. ‘Revaluations: Hume’ Times Literary Supplement, March 2000, pp.? ‘Professor Whatever’, New Republic, February 7th 2000. Pp. 34—40. ‘Am I Right?’ New York Times Book Review, Feb 21, 1999, p. 24. ‘Alchemies of the Mind’, Times Literary Supplement, October 1999, p. 3—4. ‘Is Objective Moral Justification Possible on a Quasi-realist Foundation?’ Inquiry, Vol 42, June 1999, 195—213. ‘Reply to Harman and Thomson’ Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 58, 1998, 212–6. ‘Relativization and Truth’, in The Philosophy of P. F. Strawson, Open Court, 1998, 151–167. ‘Wittgenstein, Wright, Rorty & Minimalism’ Mind 1998, 157–181. ‘Trust, Cooperation and Human Psychology’, in Trust and Governance, ed. Valerie Braithwaite and Margaret Levi, New York: The Russell Sage Foundation, 1998, 28–45. ‘Has Kant Refuted Parfit’ (invited contribution to the collection Reading Parfit, edited by Jonathan Dancy), 1997, pp. 180–202. ‘I Rather Think I am a Darwinian’ Philosophy, 71, 1996, pp. 605 - 616. ‘Dilemmas, Dithering, Plumping, and Grief’ in Moral Dilemmas and Moral Theory. ed. H. Mason, New York, Oxford University Press, 1996. ‘Securing the Nots: Moral Epistemology for the Quasi-Realist’, in Moral Epistemology, New York, Oxford University Press, ed. Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, 1996. ‘Practical Tortoise Raising’, Mind, civ, 1995 (this paper was selected as one of the top ten papers published in 1995 by The Philosophers Annual) ‘Justification, Scepticism and Nihilism’, Utilitas, vii, 1995, pp. 237 - 246 ‘Les aspects du subjectivisme moral’ in the Dictionnaire de Philosophie Morale, ed. Monique Canto Sperber. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1995. 3 ‘The Flight to Realism’ in Virtues and Reasons: Philippa Foot and Moral Theory, edited Rosalind Husthouse, Gavin Lawrence, and Warren Quinn, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1995 ‘Circles, Finks, Smells and Biconditionals’, Philosophical Perspectives, 7, 1993. ‘Losing Your Mind: Physics, Identity and Folk Burglar Prevention’ in The Future of Folk Psychology, ed. John Greenwood, Cambridge University Press, 1991. ‘Reply to Sturgeon’ Philosophical Studies 1990 ‘Just Causes’ Philosophical Studies 1990 ‘Hume and Thick Connexions’, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (special half- centenary volume) 1990. ‘Filling in Space’, Analysis (special half-centenary volume), April 1990. ‘Manifesting Realism’, Midwest Studies in Philosophy, xii, ed. French, Uehling & Wettstein, 1989. ‘Government and the Universities’, Times Literary Supplement, Dec. 1988. ‘Attitudes and Content’, Ethics, April 1988. ‘How to be an Ethical Anti-Realist’ in Midwest Studies, xii, 1988, ed. French, Uehling and Wettstein. ‘Morals and Modals’ in Fact, Science and Value, Essays in Honour of A.J. Ayer’s Language, Truth and Logic, edited by C. Wright and G. Macdonald, Blackwell, Oxford 1987. ‘How Can we Tell Whether a Commitment has a Truth Condition?’ in Meaning and Interpretation, ed. Charles Travis, Blackwell, Oxford, 1986 ‘What about Me?’, (invited reply to John Perry) Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume, 1986 ‘Finding Psychology’, Philosophical Quarterly, April 1986 (invited introduction to a special psychology issue) ‘Error and The Phenomenology of Value’ in Ethics and Objectivity, ed. T. Honderich, Routledge & Kegan Paul, Henley, 1985 ‘Supervenience Revisited’ in Exercises in Analysis ed. Ian Hacking, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1985 (anthologised in Moral Realism, ed. G. Sayre McCord, Cornell University Press, 1988) ‘The Individual Strikes Back’ Synthèse 1985 ‘Knowledge, Truth and Reliability’, Henrietta Hertz Lecture of the British Academy, 1984 ‘Rule Following and Moral Realism’ in Wittgenstein, To Follow a Rule, ed. S. Holtzman & S. Leich, Routledge & Kegan Paul, Henley, 1981 ‘Opinions and Chances’ in Prospects for Pragmatism, ed. D.H. Mellor, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1980 ‘Truth, Realism and the Regulation of Theory’ Midwest Studies in Philosophy, v, Minnesota University Press, Minneapolis 1980 ‘Thought and Things’ Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume, 1978 ‘Geach Again’ Analysis , 1977 (with Alan Code) ‘The Power of Russell’s Criticism of Frege’, Analysis , 1977 (joint paper with Alan Code of Berkeley) ‘The Identity of Propositions,’ in Meaning, Reference and Necessity,