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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 .
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.
- jdancy@austin.utexas.edu
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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.
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 ...
Sep 24, 2014 · During the last three decades, Jonathan Dancy's work has opened up new avenues in many areas of philosophy. Seven of the fourteen papers in this volume relate in one way or another to Dancy's influential work on particularism in ethics and holism about reasons, and with one exception, they are all largely sympathetic.
- Jonas Olson
- 2014
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
Jul 19, 2020 · Arguments from Illusion. by Jonathan Dancy. This paper lays out in detail various versions of an argument from illusion in areas of philosophy other than the familiar one in the theory of perception. Those are the philosophy of action (doing vs. trying), the theory of motivation,... more.
