Professor Jonathan Dancy FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2016
- Subjects
- Philosophy
- Sections
- Philosophy
Summary
Principal Publications: 1. An Introduction to Contemporary Epistemology (Oxford: Blackwell, 1985. 2. Berkeley: an Introduction (Oxford: Blackwell, 1987), pp. 165. 3. ed. (with E. Sosa) A Companion to Epistemology (Oxford: Blackwell, 1992) 4. Moral Reasons (Oxford: Blackwell, 1993). 5. ed. Reading Parfit (Oxford: Blackwell, 1997). 6. ed. Berkeley: Principles of Human Knowledge (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998). 7. ed. Berkeley: Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998). 8. Practical Reality (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2000). 9. Ethics Without Principles (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2004). 10. Practical Shape: a Theory of Practical Reasoning, forthcoming (Oxford University Press).
Current post
Professor of Philosophy, University of Texas at Austin
Past appointments
University of Reading Senior Research Professor of Philosophy
2013 - 2016
University of Texas at Austin Darrell K Royal Professor of Ethics and American Society
2011 -
University of Texas at Austin Professor of Philosophy
2005 - 2011
University of Reading Research Professor of Philosophy
2004 - 2011
University of Reading Professor of Philosophy
1996 - 2004
All Souls College, Oxford Visiting Fellow
1993 - 1994
University of Pittsburgh Visiting Professor of Philosophy
1988 - 1989
Keele University Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Reader and then Professor of Philosophy
1970 - 1996
Publications
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