Derek Parfit
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 6 years ago |
Date of birth | December 11,1942 |
Zodiac sign | Sagittarius |
Born | Chengdu |
China | |
Date of died | January 1,2017 |
Died | London |
United Kingdom | |
Influenced | Sam Harris |
John Cottingham | |
Parents | Norman Parfit |
Jessie Parfit | |
Job | Ethicist |
Education | Eton College |
Harvard University | |
University of Oxford | |
Books | On What Matters |
Prudence, Morality, and the Prisoner's Dilemma | |
Reasons and Persons | |
On What Matters: Volume One | |
On What Matters: Volume Two | |
Awards | Rolf Schock Prizes |
Influences | Immanuel Kant |
Influencees | Peter Singer |
Jeff McMahan | |
Larry S. Temkin | |
William MacAskill | |
Toby Ord | |
Samuel Scheffler | |
Thomas Hurka | |
Spous | Janet Radcliffe Richards |
School | Analytic philosophy |
Influence | Immanuel Kant |
Thomas Nagel | |
T. M. Scanlon | |
Date of Reg. | |
Date of Upd. | |
ID | 419812 |
Derek Parfit Life story
Derek Antony Parfit FBA was a British philosopher who specialised in personal identity, rationality, and ethics. He is widely considered one of the most important and influential moral philosophers of the late 20th and early 21st centuries.