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Derek Parfit

Philosophy

#38

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#126

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Ethics

#6

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#13

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Metaphysics

#28

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#48

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Ontology

#50

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#60

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According to Wikipedia, Derek Antony Parfit was a British philosopher who specialised in personal identity, rationality, and ethics. He is widely considered one of the most important and influential moral philosophers of the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

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Derek Parfit's Published Works

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Reasons and Persons (1986) (3812)
PERSONAL IDENTITY (2004) (763)
What matters. (2011) (510)
Equality and Priority (1997) (422)
A DARWINIAN DILEMMA FOR REALIST THEORIES OF VALUE (2005) (416)
Equality or Priority (1991) (329)
On What Matters: Volume One (2013) (212)
I–Derek Parfit (1997) (205)
On What Matters, Volume Two (2011) (151)
Future Generations: Further Problems (1982) (119)
OVERPOPULATION AND THE QUALITY OF LIFE (2004) (105)
Another Defence of the Priority View (2012) (84)
Justifiability to each person (2003) (78)
We Are Not Human Beings1 (2012) (73)
Experiences, Subjects, and Conceptual Schemes (1999) (64)
The Unimportance of Identity (2011) (60)
Can We Avoid the Repugnant Conclusion (2016) (57)
Rationality and Reasons (2018) (55)
Future People, the Non-Identity Problem, and Person-Affecting Principles (2017) (50)
Personal identity and rationality (1982) (38)
Prudence, morality, and the prisoner's dilemma (1981) (32)
Why Anything ? Why This ? (2008) (32)
Practical Rationality and Preference: Bombs and Coconuts, or Rational Irrationality (2001) (24)
Divided Minds and the Nature of Persons (2016) (23)
Is Common-sense Morality Self-defeating? (1979) (22)
On "The Importance of Self-Identity" (1971) (13)
The indeterminacy of identity: A reply to Brueckner (1993) (12)
Later selves and moral principles* (2021) (10)
An Attack on the Social Discount Rate (1981) (10)
Philosophy and Personal Relations: An Anglo-French Study (1973) (9)
Five Mistakes in Moral Mathematics (1986) (9)
Comments (1986) (9)
Why Does the Universe Exist (1991) (8)
Collins, Parfit, and the Problem of Personal Identity in Two Philosophical Traditions: A Review of "Selfless Persons" and "Reasons and Persons"@@@Selfless Persons@@@Reasons and Persons (1986) (8)
Why Our Identity Is not What Matters (1986) (7)
What if Everyone Did That (2011) (7)
IV—Rationality and Time (1984) (6)
What We Believe Ourselves to Be (1986) (5)
The Social Obligations of the Scientist (1973) (4)
Why We Ought to Accept the Repugnant Conclusion (2002) (4)
Paul Seabright: Pluralism and the Standard of Living (1993) (3)
Parfit on Self-Interest, Common-Sense Morality and Consequentialism: A Selective Critique of Parfit's "Reasons and Persons"@@@Reasons and Persons. (1986) (1)
Merely as a Means (2011) (1)
Different Attitudes to Time (1986) (1)
Personal Identity and Morality (1986) (1)
Kant's Arguments for His Formula of Universal Law (2006) (1)
The Mere Addition Paradox (1986) (1)
Theories That Are Indirectly Self‐Defeating (1986) (1)
Acts and Outcomes: A Reply to Boonin‐Vail (1996) (1)
2 Divided Minds and the Nature of Persons (0)
Survival and What Matters Undergraduate Research Thesis Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for graduate “with Honors Research Distinction in Philosophy” in the undergraduate colleges (2015) (0)
What Does Matter (1986) (0)
44. Reasons and Persons (2016) (0)
The Best Objection to the Self‐Interest Theory (1986) (0)
THE PRIORITY VIEW : A DEFENSE AGAINST OTSUKA AND VOORHOEVE Prof (2018) (0)
11. Reasons and Persons (1993) (0)
The Appeal to Full Relativity (1986) (0)
Notes on Contributors (2012) (0)
We Are Not Human Beings / trans. from Engl. U. V. Dobronravova (2020) (0)
NON-IDENTITY AND THE CONCEPT OF HARM (2017) (0)
1. A Long Career (2014) (0)
Grounding the Autonomy of Ethics (2015) (0)
Respect and Value (2011) (0)
RICE UNIVERSITY NAGEL'S THEORY OF THE SUBJECTIVE AND OBJECTIVE: IMPLICATIONS FOR RATIONALITY IN ETHICS by SUSANNA LEE GOODIN A THESIS SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE MASTER OF ARTS (2018) (0)
The Absurd Conclusion (1986) (0)
Normative nonnaturalism* (2020) (0)
How We Are not What We Believe (1986) (0)
Objectivism about reasons* Objectivism about reasons Derek Parfit (2020) (0)
Personal Identity / trans. from Engl. R. L. Kochnev (2019) (0)
Personal and Omnipersonal Duties (2016) (0)
Why We Should Reject S (1986) (0)
The Repugnant Conclusion (1986) (0)
Free Will and Desert (2011) (0)
What ’ s the Matter ? Review of Derek Parfit , On What Matters (2012) (0)
Commentary on Parfit (2008) (0)
Expected Utility Theory and the Priority View (2015) (0)
What to do when there isn't enough: the fair distribution of scarce goods (2012) (0)
A Paradox of Practical Rationality Iii. the Argument for the Widespread Incomparability Thesis (0)

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