Jonathan Dancy > Quotes

“Moral life, it can be said, is just too messy, and the situations we encounter differ from each other in subtle ways that no panoply of principles could ever manage to capture. Principles deal in samenesses, and there just aren't enough samenesses to go around. (page 2)”
― Jonathan Dancy, Ethics without Principles

“But my main debt is to my wife Sarah, who provided a never failing source of encouragement in the bad days and a willing ear after the good ones. I have often been somewhat sceptical about author's protestations of gratitude to husband, wife, friend or whoever, without whom... Never again. To have a lived a life with someone whose thoughts are occupied by one topic to the exclusion of most other things is more than one can reasonably ask; it was certainly not in the original contract. (Preface)”
― Jonathan Dancy, Introduction to Contemporary Epistemology

“Ockham's razor is only a methodological principle, not a necessary truth”
― Jonathan Dancy, Introduction to Contemporary Epistemology

“my father claims to be able to understand it, though perhaps he would not thanks me for the suggestion that he is representative. (Introduction)”
― Jonathan Dancy, Introduction to Contemporary Epistemology