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Practical Thought presents a selection of Jonathan Dancy's most important philosophical essays since the late 1970s, focusing on the central themes of his work: metaethics, moral metaphysics, the theory of motivation, and the British Intuitionists. The twenty-four essays in this book chart his intellectual journey.
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List of contents
- Preface
- Introduction: No More Answers
- 1: The Logical Conscience
- Part 1: Towards particularism in ethics and epistemology
- 2: On Moral Properties
- 3: Ethical Particularism and Morally Relevant Properties
- 4: The Role of Imaginary Cases in Ethics
- 5: Intuitionism in Meta-epistemology
- 6: Externalism for Internalists
- 7: The Particularist's Progress
- 8: Necessity, Universality and the A Priori in Ethics
- Part 2: Moral Metaphysics
- 9: Two Conceptions of Moral
- 10: Contemplating One's Nagel
- 11: In Defence of Thick Concepts
- 12: McDowell, Williams and Intuitionism
- 13: Practical Concepts
- 14: Should We Pass the Buck?
- Part 3: Action and Reasons
- 15: Arguments from Illusion
- 16: Why there is No Such Thing as the Theory of Motivation
- 17: How to Act - Disjunctively
- 18: Enticing Reasons
- 19: On Knowing One's Reason
- Part 4: Learning from the Intuitionists
- 20: Prichard on Duty and Ignorance of Fact
- 21: Was Moore Right about Punishment?
- 22: Has Anyone Ever Been a Non-Intuitionist?
- 23: More Right than Wrong
- 24: Prichard on Causing a Change
About the author
Jonathan Dancy has worked at the University of Texas at Austin since 2005. He previously taught at the University of Keele for 25 years and then at the University of Reading before retiring in the UK in 2011. His books include Practical Reality (2000), Ethics Without Principles (2004), and Practical Shape (2018).
Summary
Practical Thought presents a selection of Jonathan Dancy's most important philosophical essays since the late 1970s, focusing on the central themes of his work: metaethics, moral metaphysics, the theory of motivation, and the British Intuitionists. The twenty-four essays in this book chart his intellectual journey. .
