Thinking About Reasons

Thinking about Reasons is a collection of fourteen new essays on topics in ethics and the philosophy of action, inspired in one way or another by the work of Jonathan Dancy--one of his generation's most influential moral philosophers. Many of the most influential living thinkers in the area are contributors to this collection, which also contains an autobiographical afterword by Dancy himself. Topics discussed in this volume include the idea that the facts that explain action are non-psychological ones; buck passing theories of goodness and rightness; the particularist idea that there are no true informative moral principles; egoism and impartial consequentialism; practical reasoning and inference; and the idea that there cannot be irreducibly normative properties.