Practical Shape

Dancy's late-career synthesis makes a clean and philosophically ambitious argument: that practical reasoning — reasoning that ends in action — is structurally parallel to theoretical reasoning that ends in belief, and that the conclusion of practical reasoning is the action itself. A review in Mind (Oxford Academic) confirms this received serious attention, and the Aristotelian framework gives it enough grounding to be used as an advanced teaching text as well as a research resource. Readers who already know Dancy's Practical Reality will find some overlap, but the broader scope and unified theory make this the more complete account.