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On What Matters

Volume Two

On What Matters( )
Author: Parfit, Derek
Series title:The ^ABerkeley Tanner Lectures
ISBN:978-0-19-926592-3
Publication Date:Jun 2011
Publisher:Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Book Format:Multiple copy pack
List Price:USD $83.00
Book Description:

This is a major work in moral philosophy, the long-awaited follow-up to Parfit's 1984 classic Reasons and Persons, a landmark of twentieth-century philosophy. Parfit now presents a powerful new treatment of reasons and a critical examination of the most prominent systematic moral theories, leading to his own ground-breaking conclusion.

Book Details
Pages:960
Detailed Subjects: Philosophy / Ethics & Moral Philosophy
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6.318 x 9.399 x 4.317 Inches
Book Weight:4.402 Pounds
Author Biography
Parfit, Derek (Author)
Derek Antony Parfit was born in Chengdu, China on December 11, 1942 to parents who were doctors teaching preventive medicine at Christian missions. He received a degree in modern history in 1964 from Balliol College, Oxford. While on a Harkness Fellowship at Harvard University and Columbia University after graduation, he began attending lectures on philosophy and changed course. He was elected to a prize fellowship at All Souls College, Oxford, and had become a senior research fellow by 1984.

He wrote several books during his lifetime including Reasons and Persons and On What Matters. In 2014, he was awarded the Rolf Schock Prize by the Royal Swedish Academy. He died on January 2, 2017 at the age of 74.

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