Reading Parfit: On What Matters by Kirchin, Simon

Reading Parfit: On What Matters (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780415529495)

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Reading Parfit: On What Matters by Kirchin, Simon

Reading Parfit: On What Matters

$200.00
Reading Parfit: On What Matters by Kirchin, Simon

Reading Parfit: On What Matters

$200.00
Format: Hardcover
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Derek Parfit was one of the world's leading philosophers. His On What Matters was the most eagerly awaited book in philosophy for many years. Reading Parfit: On What Matters is an essential overview and assessment of volumes 1 and 2 of Parfit's monumental work by a team of international contributors, and includes responses by Parfit himself. It discusses central features of Parfit's book, including the structure and nature of reasons; the ideas underlying moral principles; Parfit's discussions of consequentialism, contractualism and Kantian deontology; and his metaethical ideas and arguments.

Reading Parfit will be central reading for students of ethics and anyone seeking a deeper understanding of one of the most important works of philosophy published in the last fifty years.



Author: Simon Kirchin
ISBN-10: 0415529492
ISBN-13: 9780415529495
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 03/21/2017
Pages: 242
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.17lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.63d
By Simon Kirchin
By Simon Kirchin
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Contributors: David Copp, J.L. Dowell and David Sobel, Julia Driver, Simon Kirchin, David McNaughton and Piers Rawling, Julia Markovits, Derek Parfit, Douglas W. Portmore, Kieran Setiya and Philip Stratton-Lake.

Simon Kirchin is Reader in Philosophy at the University of Kent. He is the author of Metaethics (2012) and is the editor of Arguing about Metaethics (with Andrew Fisher) (Routledge, 2006).

Derek Parfit (1942-2017) was for many years a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, retiring as Senior Research Fellow in 2010, whereupon he became an Emeritus Fellow. He also held visiting professorships at New York University, Harvard and Rutgers.

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