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3(1st Edition)
On What Matters: Volume Three
by Derek Parfit
Hardcover, 360 Pages, Published 2017 by Oxford University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-877860-8, ISBN: 0-19-877860-0

"Derek Parfit presents the third volume of On What Matters, his landmark work of moral philosophy. Parfit develops further his influential treatment of reasons, normativity, the meaning of moral discourse, and the status of morality. He engages with his critics, and shows the way to resolution of their differences. This volume is partly about what it is for things to matter, in the sense that we all have reasons to care about these thin ..."






1(1st Edition)
On What Matters: Volume One (The Berkeley Tanner Lectures)
by Derek Parfit, Samuel Scheffler
Paperback, 592 Pages, Published 2013 by Oxford University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-968103-7, ISBN: 0-19-968103-1

"On What Matters is a major work in moral philosophy. It is the long-awaited follow-up to Derek Parfit's 1984 book Reasons and Persons, one of the landmarks of twentieth-century philosophy. In this first volume Parfit presents a powerful new treatment of reasons and rationality, and a critical examination of three systematic moral theories -- Kant's ethics, contractualism, and consequentialism -- leading to his own ground-breaking synth ..."






On What Matters, Vol. 2(1st Edition)
by Derek Parfit, University Of Oxford
Paperback, 848 Pages, Published 2013 by Oxford University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-968104-4, ISBN: 0-19-968104-X

"On What Matters is a major work in moral philosophy. It is the long-awaited follow-up to Derek Parfit's 1984 book Reasons and Persons, one of the landmarks of twentieth-century philosophy. Parfit now presents a powerful new treatment of reasons, rationality, and normativity, and a critical examination of three systematic moral theories - Kant's ethics, contractualism, and consequentialism - leading to his own ground-breaking synthetic c ..."






On What Matters, Vol. 1(1st Edition)
(The Berkeley Tanner Lectures)
by Derek Parfit, Samuel Scheffler
Hardcover, 592 Pages, Published 2011 by Oxford University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-957280-9, ISBN: 0-19-957280-1

"On What Matters is a major work in moral philosophy. It is the long-awaited follow-up to Derek Parfit's 1984 book Reasons and Persons, one of the landmarks of twentieth-century philosophy. In this first volume Parfit presents a powerful new treatment of reasons and rationality, and a critical examination of three systematic moral theories -- Kant's ethics, contractualism, and consequentialism -- leading to his own ground-breaking synth ..."






On What Matters, Vol. 2(1st Edition)
by Derek Parfit, Samuel Scheffler
Hardcover, 848 Pages, Published 2011 by Oxford University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-957281-6, ISBN: 0-19-957281-X

"On What Matters is a major work in moral philosophy. It is the long-awaited follow-up to Derek Parfit's 1984 book Reasons and Persons, one of the landmarks of twentieth-century philosophy. Parfit now presents a powerful new treatment of reasons, rationality, and normativity, and a critical examination of three systematic moral theories - Kant's ethics, contractualism, and consequentialism - leading to his own ground-breaking synthetic c ..."






Reasons and Persons(Reprint)
(Oxford Paperbacks)
by Derek Parfit, Rod Girle, Oxford University Press
Paperback, 560 Pages, Published 1986 by Oxford University Press
Kindle Ebook
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-824908-5, ISBN: 0-19-824908-X

"Challenging, with several powerful arguments, some of our deepest beliefs about rationality, morality, and personal identity, Derek Parfit claims that we have a false view about our own nature. It is often rational to act against our own best interests, he argues, and most of us have moral views that are self-defeating. We often act wrongly, although we know there will be no one with serious grounds for complaint, and when we consider f ..."






On What Matters(1st Edition)
(2 Volume Set)
by Derek Parfit, Samuel Scheffler
Hardcover, 1,440 Pages, Published 2011 by Oxford University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-926592-3, ISBN: 0-19-926592-5

"On What Matters is a major work in moral philosophy. It is the long-awaited follow-up to Derek Parfit's 1984 book Reasons and Persons, one of the landmarks of twentieth-century philosophy. In this first volume Parfit presents a powerful new treatment of reasons and rationality, and a critical examination of three systematic moral theories - Kant's ethics, contractualism, and consequentialism - leading to his own ground-breaking syntheti ..."






Reasons and Persons(1st Edition)
by Derek Parfit
Hardcover, 560 Pages, Published 1984 by Oxford University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-824615-2, ISBN: 0-19-824615-3

""Very few works in the subject can compare with Parfit's in scope, fertility, imaginative resource, and cogency of reasoning."--P.F. Strawson, The New York Review of Books. "Extraordinary...Brilliant...Astonishingly rich in ideas...Reasons and Persons is a major contribution to philosophy: it will be read, honoured, and argued about for many years to come."--Samuel Scheffler, Times Literary Supplement. "A brilliantly clever and imagina ..."






Symposia
Readings in Philosophy (A Custom Publication)
by Derek Parfit, Jean-Paul Sartre, Immanuel Kant, Thomas Khun, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Ifeanyi Menkiti, Renã Descartes, René Descartes, Colby R. Lawrence
Published 2001 by Pearson Custom Publishing
ISBN-13: 978-0-536-63003-2, ISBN: 0-536-63003-8






On What Matters
Volume Three
by Derek Parfit
360 Pages, Published 2017 by Oxford University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-108437-9, ISBN: 0-19-108437-9

"(1996) 'Securing the Nots', in Moral Epistemology, edited Walter SinnottArmstrong (Oxford University Press). ... (2010A) 'The Majesty of Reason', Philosophy January 2010 (Cambridge University Press). de LazariRadek, Katarzyna (2014) and Peter Singer The Point ... Gibbard, Allan (1990) Wise Choices, Apt Feelings (Oxford University Press). ... (2012) Meaning and Normativity (Oxford University Press)."






Life, Death, and Meaning(3rd Edition)
Key Philosophical Readings on the Big Questions
by David Benatar, Susan Wolf, Samantha Vice, Margaret A. Boden, Fred Feldman, John Martin Fischer, Richard Hare, David Hume, W.D Joske, Immanuel Kant, Frederick Kaufman, Thomas Nagel, Robert Nozick, George Pitcher, Stephen E. Rosenbaum, Arthur Schopenhauer, David B. Suits, Bruce N. Waller, Bernard Williams, Professor Steven Luper, Richard Taylor, James Lenman, John Leslie, Derek Parfit, David Schmidtz
Hardcover, 484 Pages, Published 2016 by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN-13: 978-1-4422-5831-0, ISBN: 1-4422-5831-4

"Do our lives have meaning? Should we create more people? Is death bad? Should we commit suicide? Would it be better to be immortal? Should we be optimistic or pessimistic? Since Life, Death, and Meaning: Key Philosophical Readings on the Big Questions first appeared, David Benatar's distinctive anthology designed to introduce students to the key existential questions of philosophy has won a devoted following among users in a variety of ..."






On What Matters
Volume Three
by Derek Parfit
360 Pages, Published 2016 by Oxford University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-108436-2, ISBN: 0-19-108436-0

"Reid wrote... 'this miserable dilemma ...' Reid (1983) 598. We can challenge this belief, De Lazari-Radek and Singer suggest... S 279–296. See also de Lazari- Radek (2014). if the rationality of egoism can thus be put in doubt... S 292. the good ..."






Reasons and Persons
by Derek Parfit
Digital, 560 Pages, Published 2014 by Oxford University Press, Usa
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-151984-0, ISBN: 0-19-151984-7

"Biwu-3 1 M. D, ed.. Ethics ... Cambridge University Press, 1960, BENTHAM : 1., An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation, first published in 1789 , reprinted in Utilitarianisrrt, ... 'Personal Identity and Personal Sunivaf, Analysis 42. ... 'Rational Choice and Value in Economics', Oxford Economic Papers 30, Nov."






Berkeley Tanner Lectures
On What Matters: Volume Two
by Derek Parfit
848 Pages, Published 2013 by Oxford University Press, Usa
ISBN-13: 978-1-283-16017-9, ISBN: 1-283-16017-X

"On What Matters is already the most-discussed work in moral philosophy: its publication is likely to establish it as a modern classic which everyone working on moral philosophy will have to read, and which many others will turn to for ..."






On What Matters Vol. 1
by Derek Parfit
Published 2013
ISBN-13: 978-1-283-16016-2, ISBN: 1-283-16016-1






On What Matters
Volume One
by Derek Parfit
592 Pages, Published 2011 by Oxford University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-161346-3, ISBN: 0-19-161346-0

"... Rachels, Peter Railton, Karl Schafer, Samuel Scheffler, Michael Slote, Saul Smilansky, Jussi Suikkanen, and Stephen White. Of those who gave me comments only on Part One, I was helped most by Melissa Barry, David Copp, Joshua Gert, Pamela Hieronymi ... Gustaf Arrhenius, Elizabeth Ashford, Bruce Aune, Annette Baier, Matthew Bedke, Akeel Bilgrami, Daniel Boisvert, Matthew Boyle, Sarah Buss, ..."






On What Matters
Volume Two
by Derek Parfit
848 Pages, Published 2011 by Oup Oxford
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-161345-6, ISBN: 0-19-161345-2

"Of those who gave me comments on this volume, I was helped most by Robert Adams, Robert Audi, Selim Berker, Paul Boghossian, Laurence Bonjour, Nicholas Bostrom, Philip Bricker, John Broome, Ruth Chang, Eugene Chislenko, Roger Crisp, Garrett Cullity, Terence Cuneo, Jonathan Dancy, Cian Dorr, David Enoch, Kit Fine, Stephen Finlay, William Fitzpatrick, Alvin Goldman, Bob Hale, Michael Jubien, Shelly Kagan, Guy Kahane, Thomas Kelly, Sa ..."






On What Matters
by Derek Parfit
Published 2011
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-157671-3, ISBN: 0-19-157671-9






On What Matters
by Derek Parfit
Published 2011
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-157670-6, ISBN: 0-19-157670-0






The Berkeley Tanner Lectures
On What Matters
by Derek Parfit
1,440 Pages, Published 2011 by Oxford University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-162022-5, ISBN: 0-19-162022-X

"Joshua Cohen, Robert Curtis, Gordon Davis, Paul Dinkin, Thomas Donaldson, Dale Dorsey, Jamie Dreier, Julia Driver, Jerry Dworkin, ... Dieter Henrich, David Heyd, Alison Hills, Nathan Holcomb, Mike Huemer, Thomas Hurka, Paul Hurley, Susan Hurley, Frank Jackson, ... Julius Sensat, Andrew Sepielli, Robert Shaver, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, John Skorupski, Holly Smith, Michael Smith, Tom Sorell, ..."



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