Jonathan Dancy
Professor — MA, B Phil, Oxford University
Contact
- E-mail: jdancy@austin.utexas.edu
- Phone: 471-2620
- Office: WAG 305
- Campus Mail Code: C3500
Biography
An internationally known specialist in ethics, philosophy of action, epistemology, and early modern philosophy, Professor Dancy 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 editor or co-editor of Human Agency: Language, Duty, and Value (1988), Perceptual Knowledge (1988), A Companion to Epistemology (1992), Reading Parfit (1997), Berkeley: Principles of Human Knowledge (1998), Berkeley: Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous (1998), and Normativity (2000). He has published over eighty articles, including, most recently, ‘Reasons and Rationality’, in Spheres of Reason eds. J. Skorupski, S. Robertson and J. Timmerman (OUP, 2009), ‘Action, Content and Inference’, in Wittgenstein and Analytic Philosophy, eds. H-J. Glock and J. Hyman (OUP, 2009), ‘Moral Perception’, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Volume 2010, ‘Has Anyone Ever Been a Non-Intuitionist?’, in Underivative Duties: British Moral Philosophers from Sidgwick to Ewing ed. T. Hurka (OUP, 2011), ‘Acting in Ignorance’, in Frontiers of Philosophy in China, vol. 6 no. 3 (2011), and ‘McDowell, Williams and Intuitionism’, in Luck, Value and Commitment: Themes from the Ethics of Bernard Williams eds. U. Heuer and G. Lang (OUP, 2012).
His works have been translated into Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, Chinese, Croatian, and Romanian.
