Reading Parfit

Routledge

2017

xi, 239 p.

Includes bibliogr. references and index

9780415529495

Reflections from Wolf and Wood: incommensurability, guidance and the 'smoothing over' of ethical life / Simon Kirchin ; Normative naturalism and normative nihilism: Parfit's dilemma for naturalism / David Copp ; On what it is to matter / Julia Markovits ; The buck-passing account of value: assessing the negative thesis / Philip Stratton-Lake ; Normativity, reasons and wrongness: how to be a two-tier theorist / David McNaughton, Piers Rawling ; Wrong-Making Reasons / Kieran Setiya ; Parfit on reasons and rule consequentialism / Douglas W. Portmore ; Advice for Non-Analytical Naturalists / J. L. Dowell, David Sobel ; Contingency and constructivism / Julia Driver ; Responses / Derek Parfit

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. Book jacket

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