Derek Antony Parfit FBA (/ˈpɑːrfɪt/; 11 December 1942 – 2 January 2017) was a British philosopher who specialised in personal identity, rationality, and...

common intuitions on the nature of self and consciousness, formulated by Derek Parfit in his 1984 book Reasons and Persons. The Polish science-fiction writer...

known as the repugnant conclusion) is a problem in ethics identified by Derek Parfit and discussed in his book Reasons and Persons (1984). The paradox identifies...

Reasons and Persons is a 1984 book by the philosopher Derek Parfit, in which the author discusses ethics, rationality and personal identity. It is divided...

moral philosophy by Derek Parfit. The first two volumes were published in 2011 and the third in 2017. It is a follow-up to Parfit's 1984 book Reasons and...

perceptions instead of concepts. In philosopher Derek Parfit's 2011 book On What Matters, Volume 1, Parfit presents an argument against psychological egoism...

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increasingly common to understand normative claims as claims about reasons. As Derek Parfit explains: We can have reasons to believe something, to do something,...

of Derek Parfit, Reasons and Persons". The Philosophical Review. 98 (4): 439–484. doi:10.2307/2185115. JSTOR 2185115. Bostrom 2013, pp. 23–24. Parfit, D...

church and state. The work of well known moral philosophers such as Derek Parfit and Peter Singer, and even the whole field of contemporary bioethics...

and the identities of the persons who ever live." Moral philosopher Derek Parfit brought population ethics to the attention of the academic community...

"side-constraints" which restrict the sort of actions agents are permitted to do. Derek Parfit argued that, in practice, when understood properly, rule consequentialism...

and James H. Billington and philosophers J. L. Austin, T. H. Green, Derek Parfit, W. D. Ross, Charles Taylor, and Bernard Williams. Among the most famous...

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artist Stephen Oppenheimer (born 1947), genetic researcher and author Derek Parfit (1942–2017), philosopher Tom Penny (born 1977), skateboarder Funki Porcini...

international public servant David Pannick, Baron Pannick (1978), barrister Derek Parfit (1974), philosopher Sir John Redwood (1972), politician A. L. Rowse (1925)...

works in analytic philosophy of the late 20th century, including in Derek Parfit's Reasons and Persons, and David Chalmers's The Conscious Mind. One context...

is not predicted to occur in standard quantum mechanics. Philosopher Derek Parfit used teleportation in his teletransportation paradox. Apport (paranormal)...

to give each of them an equal chance to be spared his loss" (p. 307). Derek Parfit (1978) and others have criticized Taurek's line, and it continues to...

utilitarianism unscathed. In On What Matters Vol 3. Oxford philosopher Derek Parfit (1942–2017) expressed the view that their argument against the rationality...

Moore, John Finnis, Richard Boyd, Nicholas Sturgeon, Thomas Nagel, Derek Parfit, and Peter Singer. Norman Geras has argued that Karl Marx was a moral...

ideas have re-emerged in contemporary thought with thinkers such as Derek Parfit in his 1984 book Reasons and Persons, and Jonathan Schell in his 1982...

effective altruism include Nick Bostrom, Toby Ord, Hilary Greaves, and Derek Parfit. Economist Yew-Kwang Ng conducted similar research in welfare economics...

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often attributes its theoretical foundations to the philosopher Derek Parfit. Parfit argued that people might differ in the extent to which they feel...

Superintelligence. According to the New Yorker, philosophers Peter Singer and Derek Parfit have "received it as a work of importance". Sam Altman wrote in 2015...

show, there is reference to John Locke, Tim Scanlon, Peter Singer, and Derek Parfit, and "the show has covered everything from Jonathan Dancy's theory of...

philosophers have been concerned with the issue of personal identity. Derek Parfit in Reasons and Persons (1984) defends a kind of bundle theory, while...

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