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Jonathan Dancy has worked at the University of Texas at Austin since 2005. He previously taught at the University of Keele for 25 years and then at the University of Reading before retiring in the UK in 2011. His books include Practical Reality (2000) and Ethics Without Principles (2004)....Practical Shape is as stimulating a book of philosophy as one could hope for. It will be an invaluable resource to those interested in the nature of reasoning, both practical and theoretical, for years to come.
Laura Tomlinson, Journal of Moral Philosophy
Review from previous edition 'Dancy's book offers an attractive outline of his conception of practical reasoning . . . engagingly personal in style, and full of thoughtful and interesting material'
John Hyman, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
'an important contribution . . . the first sustained defence of a highly natural and attractive view, on which reasoning is essentially a matter of responding to reasons. . . . Above all, it is consistently stimulating: full of observations, suggestions, and arguments which are well worth pausing over.'
Jonathan Way, Ethics
'He writes with a lucidity and economy that illuminate rather than complicate. . . . His book is at once reminiscent and prescient, and the reflective reader, unexhausted by its 185 pages, is well placed to owe it yet more than what he has read out of it. . . . this is a book with a future.'
Anthony Price, Mind