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February 12, 2020derek parfit

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

September 27, 2019social ontology

Institutional Identity

The very excellent Joshua Rust has made this paper published in Journal of Social Ontology freely available. Derek Parfit famously sought to illuminate his account of personal identity by comparing a person to a club. If Parfit could use our intuitions about clubs to help motivate his neo-Lockean account of personal identity over time, which resists…

December 20, 2017photography

Derek Parfit, photographer

I knew that Parfit was a keen photographer with a great eye at least from the cover of Reasons and Persons, but here are many that have remained unseen by most until now. Luchino Visconti would have approved. Derek ParfitethicsLuchino Viscontipersonal identityphotography

January 4, 2017derek 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…

May 12, 2015thought experiments

The Art of Thought Experiments

Some artistic representations of classic thought experiments. ArtDerek ParfitDescartesevil demonfrank jacksongrueLaPlacenelson goodmanPhilosophythought experimentsWilliam Lycan

February 24, 2015consciousness

Uploading the mind

Yet another article on techno-ebullience. Alva NoëArtificial intelligenceBuddhismCognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive sciencecomplexityconsciousnessDavid ChalmersDerek ParfitDescartesdistributed cognitionExtended Mindphilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mindRay KurzweilSingularityStephen Hawking

March 22, 2012metaphysics, personal identity, philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, situated cognition

The Oxford Handbook of the Self

Here is a review of Shaun Gallagher’s door-stopper of a book – the publisher’s blurb and toc below. (I’ve just finished a paper for another collection that would have fitted in this collection since communitarian notions of identity seem to be missing). Research on the topic of self has increased significantly in recent years across a…

January 18, 2012derek parfit, on what matters, Philip Kitcher, reasons and persons

Kitcher reviews Parfit

Philip Kitcher reviews Derek Parfit’s massive two-volume tome On What Matters. Derek Parfitethicspersonal identityPhilip KitcherReasons and Persons