Derek Parfit
1942, China | |
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"Derek Parfit is a philosopher who specializes in problems of personal identity, rationality and ethics, and the relations between them. His 1984 book, Reasons and Persons (described by Alan Ryan of The Sunday Times as "something close to a work of genius") has been very influential in the field."
-- www.wikipedia.org
Achievements
- Reasons and Persons
- Reasons and Morality
- Rediscovering Reasons
- Idea of Descendant Selves