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17A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge (edited book)Oxford University Press. 1998.This new edition of Berkeley's Principles of Human Knowledge has been designed especially for the student reader. It also includes the four letters between George Berkeley and Samuel Johnson, written in 1729-30. The text is supplemented by a comprehensive introduction, an analysis of the text, a glossary, detailed notes, and a full bibliography with guidance on further reading. Published alongside Berkeley's other masterpiece, the Three Dialogues this new edition aims to give the reader a thorou…Read more
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17Practical Thought: Essays on Reason, Intuition, and ActionOxford University Press. 2021.Practical Thought 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..
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15Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous (edited book)Oxford University Press. 1998.This new edition of Berkeley's Three Dialogues, specially designed to be accessible to the student reader, provides a comprehensive philosophical introduction, and analysis of the text, a glossary, detailed endnotes, and a full bibliography with guidance on further reading. Published alongside Berkeley's other masterpiece, the Principles of Human Knowledge, this new edition aims to give the reader a thorough introduction to the central ideas of one of the world's greatest philosophers.
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14Human Agency: Language, Duty, and ValueJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 48 (1): 97. 1990.
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13Essentially Comparative ConceptsJournal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 1 (2): 1-16. 2005.This paper examines Larry Temkin’s notion of an ‘essentially comparative’ concept and the uses to which he puts it. It is suggested that this notion is a conflation of two distinct notions which need not go together. This leads to a critical examination of Temkin’s arguments that certain central ethical concepts are essentially comparative. These arguments are often found wanting, as is Temkin’s treatment of the Person Affecting View
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11Ii—moral PerceptionAristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 84 (1): 99-117. 2010.I start by examining Robert Audi's positive suggestions about moral perception, and then attempt to point out some challengeable assumptions that he seems to make, and to consider how things might look if those assumptions are abandoned.
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10Human agency: language, duty, and value: philosophical essays in honor of J.O. Urmson (edited book, review)Stanford University Press. 1988.The essays in this volume explore current work in central areas of philosophy, work unified by attention to salient questions of human action and human agency. They ask what it is for humans to act knowledgeably, to use language, to be friends, to act heroically, to be mortally fortunate, and to produce as well as to appreciate art. The volume is dedicated to J. O. Urmson, in recognition of his inspirational contributions to these areas. All the essays but one have been specially written for thi…Read more
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7Roots of Normativity, by Joseph RazMind. forthcoming.This book, which sadly is the last we will get from Joseph Raz, contains his final thoughts about normativity. Thanks are owed to Ulrike Heuer who helped see it.
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5ForewordIn Bernard Williams (ed.), Descartes: the project of pure enquiry, Harvester Press. 1978.