Reading Parfit
eBook - ePub

Reading Parfit

On What Matters

  1. 242 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Reading Parfit

On What Matters

About this book

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.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2017
eBook ISBN
9781351847179
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Philosophy History & Theory

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Table of Contents
  7. Notes on contributors
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. Introduction
  10. 1 Reflections from Wolf and Wood: incommensurability, guidance and the ‘smoothing over’ of ethical life
  11. 2 Normative naturalism and normative nihilism: Parfit’s dilemma for naturalism
  12. 3 On what it is to matter
  13. 4 The buck-passing account of value: assessing the negative thesis
  14. 5 Normativity, reasons and wrongness: how to be a two-tier theorist
  15. 6 Wrong-Making Reasons
  16. 7 Parfit on reasons and rule consequentialism
  17. 8 Advice for Non-Analytical Naturalists
  18. 9 Contingency and constructivism
  19. 10 Responses
  20. Index