Practical Thought

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).

• PrefaceIntroduction: No More Answers1: The Logical ConsciencePart 1: Towards particularism in ethics and epistemology2: On Moral Properties3: Ethical Particularism and Morally Relevant Properties4: The Role of Imaginary Cases in Ethics5: Intuitionism in Meta-epistemology6: Externalism for Internalists7: The Particularist's Progress8: Necessity, Universality and the A Priori in EthicsPart 2: Moral Metaphysics9: Two Conceptions of Moral10: Contemplating One's Nagel11: In Defence of Thick Concepts12: McDowell, Williams and Intuitionism13: Practical Concepts14: Should We Pass the Buck?Part 3: Action and Reasons15: Arguments from Illusion16: Why there is No Such Thing as the Theory of Motivation17: How to Act - Disjunctively18: Enticing Reasons19: On Knowing One's ReasonPart 4: Learning from the Intuitionists20: Prichard on Duty and Ignorance of Fact21: Was Moore Right about Punishment?22: Has Anyone Ever Been a Non-Intuitionist?23: More Right than Wrong24: Prichard on Causing a Change