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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.
Contents
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
SIMON KIRCHIN
1. Reflections from Wolf and Wood: Incommensurability, Guidance, and the 'Smoothing Over' of Ethical Life
SIMON KIRCHIN
2. Normative Naturalism and Normative Nihilism: Parfit's Dilemma for
Naturalism.
DAVID COPP
3. On what it is to Matter
JULIA MARKOVITS
4. The Buck-Passing Account of Value: Assessing the Negative Thesis
PHILIP STRATTON-LAKE
5. Normativity, Reasons and Wrongness: How to be a Two-Tiered Theorist
DAVID McNAUGHTON and PIERS RAWLING
6. Wrong-making Reasons
KIERAN SETIYA
7. Parfit on Reasons and Rule Consequentialism
DOUGLAS W. PORTMORE
8. Advice for Non-analytic Naturalists
J. L. DOWELL and DAVID SOBEL
9. Contingency and Constructivism
JULIA DRIVER
10. Responses
DEREK PARFIT
Index
Index
