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Author:   Simon Kirchin (University of Kent, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.380kg
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9780415529501

ISBN 10:   0415529506
Pages:   242
Publication Date:   21 March 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
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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

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Derek Parfit's On What Matters is a major contribution to moral philosophy. The timely essays of this wonderful volume both clarify and evaluate Parfit's central arguments. Anyone interested in Parfit's work should study them carefully. Jussi Suikkanen, University of Birmingham, UK

Derek Parfit's On What Matters is a major contribution to moral philosophy. The timely essays of this wonderful volume both clarify and evaluate Parfit's central arguments. Anyone interested in Parfit's work should study them carefully. Jussi Suikkanen, University of Birmingham, UK Derek Parfit is one of the world's leading philosophers. His On What Matters is the most eagerly-awaited book in philosophy for many years and heralded by Peter Singer in the Times Literary Supplement as the most significant work in ethics since Sidgwick's masterpiece, The Methods of Ethics, was published in 1873.

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Contributors: David Copp, J.L. Dowell and David Sobel, Julia Driver, Simon Kirchin, David McNaughton and Piers Rawling, Julia Markovits, Derek Parfit, Douglas W. Portmore, Kieran Setiya and Philip Stratton-Lake. Simon Kirchin is Reader in Philosophy at the University of Kent. He is the author of Metaethics (2012) and is the editor of Arguing about Metaethics (with Andrew Fisher) (Routledge, 2006). Derek Parfit (1942–2017) was for many years a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, retiring as Senior Research Fellow in 2010, whereupon he became an Emeritus Fellow. He also held visiting professorships at New York University, Harvard and Rutgers.

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