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Practical Tortoise Raising : And Other Philosophical Essays
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Practical Tortoise Raising : And Other Philosophical Essays Hardcover - 2010 - 1st Edition

by Blackburn, Simon

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  • Title Practical Tortoise Raising : And Other Philosophical Essays
  • Author Blackburn, Simon
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 350
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2010. 352p. Hardback. unmissable for its title alone Joy Lo Dico
  • Date 2010-11-02
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 42309058-75
  • ISBN 9780199548057 / 0199548056
  • Weight 1.47 lbs (0.67 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.21 x 6.14 x 0.81 in (23.39 x 15.60 x 2.06 cm)
  • Themes
    • Aspects (Academic): Philosophical
    • Chronological Period: Modern
  • Library of Congress subjects Philosophy
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2010927210
  • Dewey Decimal Code 192

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Simon Blackburn presents a selection of his philosophical essays from 1995 to 2010. He offers engaging and illuminating discussions of various problems which arise when such familiar notions as representation, truth, reason, and assertion are applied in the sphere of practical thought. It is puzzling how our thinking gets to grip with such things as values and norms. Blackburn explores how we can try to understand what we say in terms of what we are doing when we say it. He investigates how propositions interact with linguistic expressions whose primary function is identified in terms of actions performed in expressing commitments with them, when those commitments are thought of in practical rather than descriptive terms. He broadens his investigation from semantic questions to wider issues of pluralism, pragmatism, philosophy of mind, and the nature of practical reasoning.

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Simon Blackburn is Distinguished Research Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.

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