Principles and persons

Oxford University Press

2021

vi, 482 pages

9780192893994

Jeff McMahan: Introduction1 Personal Identity, Prudence, and Ethics1: David O. Brink: Special Concern and Personal Identity2: James Goodrich: Separating Persons3: Tim Campbell: Personal Identity and Impersonal Ethics4: Samuel Scheffler: Temporal Neutrality and the Bias toward the Future5: Shelly Kagan: What is the Opposite of Well-Being?6: Roger Crisp: Parfit on Love and Partiality2 Normative Ethical Theory7: Elizabeth Ashford: Individualist Utilitarianism and Converging Theories of Rights8: Ingmar Persson: Parfit s Reorientation: From Revisionism to Conciliationism9: Brad Hooker: Parfit s Final Arguments in Normative Ethics10: Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek and Peter Singer: Parfit on Act Consequentialism11: Liam Murphy: Nonlegislative Justification: Against Legalist Moral Theory3 Reasons12: Stephen Darwall: Doing Right by Wrong13: John Broome: Giving Reasons and Given Reasons4 Moral Mathematics: Aggregation, Overdetermination, and Harm14: John Taurek: Reply to Parfit's "Innumerate Ethics"15: Jeff McMahan: Defence Against Parfit's Torturers16: Victor Tadros: Overdetermination and Obligation17: Molly Gardner: What is Harming?5 Egalitarianism and Prioritarianism18: Nils Holtug: Prioritarianism, Risk, and the Gap Between Prudence and Morality19: Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen: Relational Egalitarianism: Telic and Deontic6 Supererogation20: F. M. Kamm: Duties That Become Supererogatory or Forbidden?21: Thomas Hurka and Evangeline Tsagarakis: More Supererogatory

This book is a collection of essays, most of which appear here for the first time, that were written in honour of the legendary moral philosopher, Derek Parfit. The essays are mainly concerned with issues that Parfit addressed in his book, Reasons and Persons. They include the relevance of personal identity to ethics, the rationality of different attitudes to time, the nature of well-being, the varieties of consequentialism, reasons for action, aggregation in ethics, causal overdetermination, egalitarianism, prioritarianism, and supererogation

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