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Practical thought : essays on reason, intuition, and action
- Title
- Practical thought : essays on reason, intuition, and action / Jonathan Dancy.
- Author
- Dancy, Jonathan
- Publication
- Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2021.
- ©2021
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- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [407]-412) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : no more answers -- The logical conscience -- Section 1: Towards particularism in ethics and epistemology. -- On moral properties -- Ethical particularism and morally relevant properties -- Intuitionism in meta-epistemology -- The role of imaginary cases in ethics -- Externalism for internalists -- The particularist's progress Necessity, universality and the a priori in ethics -- Part 2: Moral metaphysics. Two conceptions of moral realism -- Contemplating one's Nagel -- In defence of thick concepts -- McDowell, Williams and intuitionism -- Practical concepts -- Should we pass the buck? -- Part 3: Action and reasons. Arguments from illusion -- Why there is no such thing as the theory of motivation -- How to act : disjunctively -- Enticing reasons -- On knowing one's reason -- Part 4: Learning from the intuitionists. Prichard on duty and ignorance of fact -- Moore's account of vindictive punishment : a test case for theories of organic unities -- Has anyone ever been a non-intuitionist? -- More right than wrong -- Prichard on causing a change.
- Call Number
- JFE 21-8949
- ISBN
- 0198865600
- 9780198865605
- LCCN
- 2020952993
- OCLC
- 1237354209
- Author
- Dancy, Jonathan, author.
- Title
- Practical thought : essays on reason, intuition, and action / Jonathan Dancy.
- Publisher
- Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2021.
- Copyright Date
- ©2021
- Edition
- First edition.
- Description
- viii, 417 pages ; 24 cm
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [407]-412) and index.
- Summary
- Practical Thought: Essays on Reasons, Intuition, and Action 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. -- Provided by publisher.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 21-8949