Simon Blackburn
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English academic philosopher (born 1944)
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- 61
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- Philosophers Who Changed History
- Ethics A Very Short Introduction
- Domesticated Mammals
- The Republic
- Think Philosophy and the Big Questions of Life
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Moderated estimation of fold change and dispersion for RNA-seq data with DESeq2
· 2014 · cited 85,307x
- Measuring inconsistency in meta-analyses
· 2003 · cited 51,743x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 41,528x
- PRISMA Extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR): Checklist and Explanation
· 2018 · cited 33,718x
- Quantifying heterogeneity in a meta‐analysis
· 2002 · cited 31,495x
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Quotes
- “An ethic gone wrong is an essential preliminary to the sweat shop or the concentration camp and the death march.”
- “The word "philosophy" carries unfortunate connotations: impractical, unworldly, weird.”
- “In the end, it is ideas for which people kill each other.”
- “Since there is no telling in advance where it may lead, reflection can be seen as dangerous.”
- “The scientific world is to be less threatening than was feared. It is to be made safe for human beings. And the way to make it safe is to reflect on the foundation of knowledge.”
- “Thoughts are strange things. they have 'representational' powers: a thought typically represents the world as being one way or another. A sensation, by contrast, seems to just sit there.”
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1944 births20th-century English philosophers21st-century English philosophersAlumni of Churchill College, CambridgeAlumni of Trinity College, CambridgeAnalytic philosophersBertrand Russell Professors of PhilosophyEnglish humanistsEnglish monarchistsFellows of Churchill College, CambridgeFellows of Pembroke College, OxfordFellows of the American Academy of Arts and SciencesFellows of the British AcademyFellows of Trinity College, CambridgeLiving peopleMind (journal) editorsPeople educated at Clifton CollegePresidents of the Aristotelian SocietyUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill faculty