Simon Blackburn is the Edna J. Koury Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He was a Fellow and Tutor at Pembroke College, Oxford, from 1969 to 1990. His books for OUP are Spreading the Word (1984), Essays in Quasi-Realism (1993), The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy (hbk 1994, pbk 1996), and Ruling Passions (1998). He edited the journal Mind from 1984 to 1990.

Think offers a tour of philosophical thinking . . . central to our understanding of the world and our position in it.

• PART ONE: SETTING THE SCENE ; 1. Descartes's Demon ; PART TWO: BEGINNING TO THINK ABOUT OURSELVES ; 2. Consciousness, Zombies, and Permutants ; 3. Freedom, Determinism, Fate ; 4. The Conscious Self ; PART THREE: BEGINNING TO THINK ABOUT THE WAY THINGS ARE ; 5. Good God? ; 6. Wrestling with Idealism ; 7. Why do Things Keep on Keeping On? ; 8. The Arts of Intellectual Hygiene ; PART FOUR: BEGINNING TO THINK ABOUT WHAT TO DO ; 9. Behaving Well ; 10. Pulling Together

Simon Blackburn is the Edna J. Koury Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He was a Fellow and Tutor at Pembroke College, Oxford, from 1969 to 1990. His books for OUP are Spreading the Word (1984), Essays in Quasi-Realism (1993), The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy (hbk 1994, pbk 1996), and Ruling Passions (1998). He edited the journal Mind from 1984 to 1990.

Think offers a tour of philosophical thinking . . . central to our understanding of the world and our position in it.

• PART ONE: SETTING THE SCENE ; 1. Descartes's Demon ; PART TWO: BEGINNING TO THINK ABOUT OURSELVES ; 2. Consciousness, Zombies, and Permutants ; 3. Freedom, Determinism, Fate ; 4. The Conscious Self ; PART THREE: BEGINNING TO THINK ABOUT THE WAY THINGS ARE ; 5. Good God? ; 6. Wrestling with Idealism ; 7. Why do Things Keep on Keeping On? ; 8. The Arts of Intellectual Hygiene ; PART FOUR: BEGINNING TO THINK ABOUT WHAT TO DO ; 9. Behaving Well ; 10. Pulling Together

Simon Blackburn is the Edna J. Koury Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He was a Fellow and Tutor at Pembroke College, Oxford, from 1969 to 1990. His books for OUP are Spreading the Word (1984), Essays in Quasi-Realism (1993), The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy (hbk 1994, pbk 1996), and Ruling Passions (1998). He edited the journal Mind from 1984 to 1990.

Think offers a tour of philosophical thinking . . . central to our understanding of the world and our position in it.

• PART ONE: SETTING THE SCENE ; 1. Descartes's Demon ; PART TWO: BEGINNING TO THINK ABOUT OURSELVES ; 2. Consciousness, Zombies, and Permutants ; 3. Freedom, Determinism, Fate ; 4. The Conscious Self ; PART THREE: BEGINNING TO THINK ABOUT THE WAY THINGS ARE ; 5. Good God? ; 6. Wrestling with Idealism ; 7. Why do Things Keep on Keeping On? ; 8. The Arts of Intellectual Hygiene ; PART FOUR: BEGINNING TO THINK ABOUT WHAT TO DO ; 9. Behaving Well ; 10. Pulling Together