Parfit: A Philosopher and His Mission to Save Morality
Dec 12, 2024 · Parfit’s work, along with that of Nagel, Scanlon, and others, was crucial in reviving the reputation of non-naturalism. But, if non-naturalism is true, its truth is independent of Parfit’s or …
David Edmonds on Parfit: A Philosopher and His Mission to Save …
Apr 14, 2023 · If there was a dinner after a philosophy talk, he would fret about seating arrangements and whom he’d have to converse with. He grew increasingly troubled by philosophical disagreement.
Popper and Parfit: the minds of philosophers - Understanding Society
Apr 6, 2024 · Both were analytical philosophers, but their intellectual frameworks and their philosophical approaches were markedly different. Both thinkers are well known in analytic philosophy, and each …
Practice Makes Parfit - Mises Institute
May 12, 2023 · As he grew older, Parfit devoted more and more of his time to philosophy, to the point that he could talk of little else. It was of vital importance to him to convince people that morality is …
Parfit: A Philosopher and His Mission to Save Morality on JSTOR
Connecting Parfit’s work and life and offering a clear introduction to his profound and challenging ideas, Parfit is a powerful portrait of an extraordinary thinker who continues to have a remarkable influence …
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Oct 17, 2024 · Yet when presented with others’ personal problems, he would often be, seemingly unwillingly, cold. Parfit’s philosophy was novel, both in its arguments, laden with innovative thought …
Parfit: A Philosopher and His Mission to Save Morality
Apr 18, 2023 · For Parfit, the stakes could scarcely have been higher. If he couldn’t demonstrate that there are objective facts about right and wrong, he believed, his life was futile and all our lives were …
Derek Parfit: His Life and Thought | Oxford Academic
May 19, 2025 · This volume presents ten chapters exploring Parfit’s life and thought, including a personal memoir by his widow (also a philosopher), his sister, and a substantial proportion of his …
"A fully informative description of the body is beamed to another place, where the body then is reconstituted (from numerically distinct molecules) according to the received information" (Nozick …
Examining important Parfitian-inspired studies of Buddhist philoso-phy, this article points out various ways in which a Parfitian lens shaped, often implicitly, contemporary understandings of the anātman …