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. .

Preface Introduction: No More Answers 1: The Logical Conscience Part 1: Towards particularism in ethics and epistemology 2: On Moral Properties 3: Ethical Particularism and Morally Relevant Properties 4: The Role of Imaginary Cases in Ethics 5: Intuitionism in Meta-epistemology 6: Externalism for Internalists 7: The Particularist's Progress 8: Necessity, Universality and the A Priori in Ethics Part 2: Moral Metaphysics 9: Two Conceptions of Moral 10: Contemplating One's Nagel 11: In Defence of Thick Concepts 12: McDowell, Williams and Intuitionism 13: Practical Concepts 14: Should We Pass the Buck? Part 3: Action and Reasons 15: Arguments from Illusion 16: Why there is No Such Thing as the Theory of Motivation 17: How to Act - Disjunctively 18: Enticing Reasons 19: On Knowing One's Reason Part 4: Learning from the Intuitionists 20: Prichard on Duty and Ignorance of Fact 21: Was Moore Right about Punishment? 22: Has Anyone Ever Been a Non-Intuitionist? 23: More Right than Wrong 24: Prichard on Causing a Change

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), Ethics Without Principles (2004), and Practical Shape (2018).

Draws together thirty years of essays from a central voice in moral philosophy and epistemology Retraces Dancy's intellectual journey in one volume Offers a distinct and highly influential set of positions