Passions and Projections
Themes from the Philosophy of Simon Blackburn
Edited by Robert N. Johnson and Michael Smith
Reviews and Awards
"The range and influence of Simon Blackburn's work is reflected in the thematic variety of the contributions to this excellent volume edited by Robert N. Johnson and Michael Smith. The quality of the essays is consistently high, and together they provide a comprehensive, in-depth treatment of Blackburn's many original and controversial ideas" -- Camil Golub, Journal of Moral Philosophy
"Written by a distinguished bunch of philosophers, this wonderful book collects together fourteen papers on various aspects of Blackburn's work. The papers cover what seems like a fitting selection of topics. They are polished, and many of them are a real joy to read." -- Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews Online
"This is a rather good anthology overall, and there is much here for those interested, not simply in the specifics of Blackburn's arguments, but in realism and projectivism as such, largely of course as such things apply to ethics, but to no small extent as these positions apply elsewhere as well." -- Philosophical Forum
"Anyone who has any interest in Blackburn's work--or more generally in any version of expressivism, projectivism, prescriptivism, pragmatism, or anti-realism--should get their hands on this volume. The collection certainly provides a fitting, and very personal, tribute to the philosophical themes developed in Blackburn's pioneering work-in the sense that many of the contributors, as indicated in the essays, have been profitably engaged with Blackburn's work for decades." -- The Philosophical Quarterly