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Jonathan Peter Dancy FBA (born 8 May 1946) is a British philosopher, who has written on ethics and epistemology. He is currently Professor of Philosophy at University of Texas at Austin and Research Professor at the University of Reading. He taught previously for many years at the University of Keele .
Professor Dancy is the author of An Introduction to Contemporary Epistemology, Moral Reasons, Berkeley: An Introduction, Practical Reality, and Ethics Without Principles, as well as articles on many philosophical subjects.
The main overall focus of my work here was the attempt to construct a viable form of realism, with an associated metaphysics, theory of motivation and theory of moral experience, if so it can be called. I am best known for the distinctively particularist slant that I put on these matters.
Mar 28, 2018 · Jonathan Dancy, being the contemporary founding father of particularism, provides the most influential, if not the most definitive, statement of the doctrine in Dancy 2009. Väyrynen 2011 offers a balanced analysis of the pros and the cons of particularism, whereas Crisp 1998 takes a somewhat disparaging view about it.
An internationally known specialist in ethics, epistemology, and early modern philosophy, he is author of five books: An Introduction to Contemporary Epistemology (Blackwell, 1985), Berkeley: an Introduction (Blackwell, 1987), Moral Reasons (Blackwell, 1993), Practical Reality (Oxford, 2000), and Ethics Without Principles (Oxford, 2004).He is also editor or co-editor of Human Agency: Language ...
Jan 12, 2017 · JONATHAN DANCY — What Is It Like to Be a Philosopher? In this interview, Jonathan Dancy, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin, talks about cricket, ping pong, and squash, teaching English in French Cameroon, a shaky start in philosophy, considering a career as a musician, the stranglehold Hare had on ethics, the ...
JONATHAN DANCY Personal Born: 8 May 1946 Married: Sarah Birley, 1973; 3 children born in 1975, 77, 80. E-mail address: jdancy at austin.utexas.edu Education Scholar, Winchester College, 1959-64 Voluntary Service Overseas in Cameroon, 1964-65 Scholar, Corpus Christi College, Oxford, 1965-71
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