Alex O'Connor
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Are Ethics Just Emotions? - Simon Blackburn

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Simon Blackburn is well-known both as a writer of popular philosophy introductions (like "Think"), and also a significant figure in non-cognitivist meta-ethics, having invented the term “quasi-realism” to describe his moral philosophy.

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