Essays in Honour of Derek Parfit: Normative Ethics and Personal Identity
I don’t see an OUP webpage up yet for this collection but this is a good preview. Brad HookerDerek Parfitethicsmoral philosophypersonal identity
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Derek Parfit
Here’s an obit in Vox but will compile and post other obituaries as they come out. New York Times Derek Parfit and Janet Radcliffe-Richards (not an obit) “With no other philosopher have I had such a clear sense of someone who had already thought of every objection I could make, of the best replies to them, of further…
Treating people as ends in themselves
Christine Korsgaard interview. John Rawls
Kitcher reviews Parfit
Philip Kitcher reviews Derek Parfit’s massive two-volume tome On What Matters. Derek Parfitethicspersonal identityPhilip KitcherReasons and Persons
Sameness and Substance Renewed
It’s been ten years since the release of David Wiggins’ Sameness and Substance Renewed. I notice that it has gone into a second edition, which is good news. This book must rate as one of my favourite works and I believe is somewhat neglected (I originally read S&S and was impressed that reading S&SR didn’t…
Derek Parfit: On What Matters
Derek Parfit’s latest book On What Matters is about to hit the shelves. I guess this must qualify as a major philosophical event if like me you were taken by the astounding philosophical imagination of Reasons and Persons. Below is a shot of Parfit at his dashing peak taken in Oxford by the late Susan…
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