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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.
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.
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 al...
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
Practical Shape: A Theory of Practical Reasoning. Jonathan Dancy - 2018 - Oxford: Oxford University Press. Jonathan Dancy aims to establish the possibility of reasoning to action, by showing how similar it is to reasoning to belief.
Jul 19, 2020 · Jonathan Dancy, The University of Texas at Austin, Philosophy Department, Faculty Member. Studies Philosophy. I have worked in epistemology, in the history of philosophy, in ethics and in the philosophy of action.I have taught at the University of.
Jonathan Dancy is a professor (part-time) at University of Texas at Austin, Department of Philosophy. They are interested in Value Theory. Follow them to stay up to date with their professional activities in philosophy, and browse their publications such as "Berkeley's active self", "Motivation, Dispositions And Aims", and "Moral reasons".
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.