Derek Parfit: His Life and Thought

NOTE EDITORE

At the time of his death in January 2017, Derek Parfit was widely regarded among philosophers as the best and most important moral philosopher in well over a century. He was also both legendarily eccentric and legendarily generous. In his later years he became increasingly reclusive in his obsessive struggle to develop his ideas and arguments about an extensive set of philosophical problems before he died. His perfectionism, meticulous concern for the truth, and openness to being proved wrong prevented him from being satisfied until he had a convincing response to every possible objection to the views he sought to defend. Because Parfit was so reclusive, there were relatively few people who knew him well. In this volume of essays devoted to exploring his legacy, many of those to whom he was closest offer portraits of both the man and the philosopher. The overall result is a tapestry of largely converging but also in places slightly conflicting perceptions. The authors include his widow (also a philosopher), his sister, and a substantial proportion of his closest friends, all of whom were both his colleagues in philosophy and some of whom were also his former students. The volume is thus part intellectual biography and part memoir.

SOMMARIO

1 - Derek Parfit, 1942-2017: Biographical Memoir for the British Academy2 - My Lovely Duomaniac3 - To Derek, with Love4 - My Brother Derek5 - Derek Parfit as I Knew Him6 - "My Work Is My Life": How Derek's Identity Survived across Time7 - Derek, to My Mind8 - Not Quite a Person9 - "Some Philosophical Questions Are Sublime": Memories of Derek Parfit10 - Philosophy and Art with Parfit

AUTORE

Jeff McMahan is Emeritus Sekyra and White's Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Oxford. He is the author of The Ethics of Killing: Problems at the Margins of Life (OUP, 2002) and Killing in War (OUP, 2009).

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780192894243
• Dimensioni: 224 x 24.0 x 147 mm Ø 520 gr
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Illustration Notes: 7 black-and-white illustrations
• Pagine Arabe: 320