Practical Tortoise Raising

• Lively and lucid essays from one of the best writers of philosophy
• Covers a wide range of important topics
• The best of Blackburn's academic work from the last fifteen years

Readership: Scholars and advanced students of philosophy.

Simon Blackburn, University of Cambridge and University of North Carolina

"unmissable for its title alone" - Joy Lo Dico, The Independent

Introduction
I. Language and Epistemology
1: From Doing to Saying
2: Success Semantics
3: Practical Tortoise Raising
4: Wittgenstein's Irrealism
5: Circles, Finks, Smells and Biconditionals
6: The Absolute Conception
7: Julius Caesar and George Berkeley Play Leapfrog
8: The Majesty of Reason
II. Practical Philosophy and Ethics
9: Truth, Goodness and Beauty
10: Dilemmas, Dithering, Plumping, Grief
11: Group Minds and Expressive Harm
12: Trust, Cooperation, and Human Psychology
13: Must we Weep for Sentimentalism?
14: Morality and Thick Concepts
15: Perspectives, Fiction, Error, Play
16: Fiction and Conviction