Practical Thought: Essays on Reason, Intuition, and Action

✍ Scribed by Jonathan Dancy

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 426
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Preface
Introduction: No More Answers?
1. The Logical Conscience
SECTION 1: TOWARDS PARTICULARISM IN ETHICS AND EPISTEMOLOGY
2. On Moral Properties
3. Ethical Particularism and Morally Relevant Properties
4. Intuitionism in Meta-Epistemology
5. The Role of Imaginary Cases in Ethics
6. Externalism for Internalists
7. The Particularist’s Progress
8. Necessity, Universality, and the A Priori in Ethics
SECTION 2: MORAL METAPHYSICS
9. Two Conceptions of Moral Realism
10. Contemplating One’s Nagel
11. In Defence of Thick Concepts
12. McDowell, Williams, and Intuitionism
13. Practical Concepts
14. Should We Pass the Buck?
SECTION 3: ACTION AND REASONS
15. Arguments from Illusion
16. Why There Is Really No Such Thing as the Theory of Motivation
17. On How to Act—Disjunctively
18. Enticing Reasons
19. On Knowing One’s Reason
SECTION 4: LEARNING FROM THE INTUITIONISTS
20. Prichard on Duty and Ignorance of Fact
21. Moore’s Account of Vindictive Punishment: A Test Case for Theories of Organic Unities
22. Has Anyone Ever Been a Non-Intuitionist?
23. More Right than Wrong
24. Prichard on Causing a Change
Places of First Publication
Works Cited
Index