Reading Parfit

Jonathan Dancy

Wiley, Aug 15, 1997 - Philosophy - 364 pages

Reading Parfit brings together some of the most distinguished scholars in the field to discuss and critique Derek Parfit's outstanding work, Reasons and Persons.

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Derek Parfit’s Reasons and Persons is fun and thought-provoking, containing fifty times more ideas per page than, say, Rawls’s A Theory of Justice. It is however full of holes. Reading Parfit ...

About the author

Jonathan Dancy is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Reading. He has published widely in the areas of ethics and epistemology, including (co-editor with Ernest Sosa) A Companion to Epistemology (Blackwell Publishers, 1992) and Moral Reasons (Blackwell Publishers, 1992).

Bibliographic information

• Title: Reading Parfit; Philosophers and their Critics
• Editor: Jonathan Dancy
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Wiley, 1997
• ISBN: 0631197265, 9780631197263
• Length: 364 pages
• Subjects: Philosophy / General; Philosophy / Metaphysics