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Reasons and Persons
Language: en
Pages: 880
Authors: Derek Parfit
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 1986-01-23 - Publisher: OUP Oxford

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This book challenges, with several powerful arguments, some of our deepest beliefs about rationality, morality, and personal identity. The author claims that we
Derek Parfit’s Reasons and Persons
Language: en
Pages: 440
Authors: Andrea Sauchelli
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-02-12 - Publisher: Routledge

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Derek Parfit (1942–2017) is widely considered to be one of the most important moral philosophers of the twentieth century. Reasons and Persons is arguably the
On What Matters
Language: en
Pages: 529
Authors: Derek Parfit
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-02-09 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Derek Parfit presents the third volume of On What Matters, his landmark work of moral philosophy. Parfit develops further his influential treatment of reasons,
Does Anything Really Matter?
Language: en
Pages: 344
Authors: Peter Singer
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-01-12 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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In the first two volumes of On What Matters Derek Parfit argues that there are objective moral truths, and other normative truths about what we have reasons to
Reasons Without Persons
Language: en
Pages: 219
Authors: Brian Hedden
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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Brian Hedden defends a radical view about rationality, personal identity, and time. He argues that what it is rational to do should not depend on your past beli