From what my philosophy professors indicate, Parfit is considered to have succeeded. Product Information. Oxford University. The Master's taste didn't extend to photography! On What Matters: Volume One (The Berkeley Tanner Lectures), Derek Parfit’s Reasons and Persons: An Introduction and Critical Inquiry. To get the free app, enter your mobile phone number. Why does wrong against me count more to me than wrong against you? Does this book contain quality or formatting issues? H OWARD R ACHLIN. The fourth section is maybe my favorite single section of any philosophy book I've read. A class of problems is deeply probed: whether and how you evaluate the moral desert of *possible* future people (do you do someone a favor by causing them to exist? In 2014, he was awarded the Rolf Schock Prize by the Royal Swedish Academy. Reasons and Persons is divided into four sections, of which I think the 3rd and 4th are the most fun and interesting. Reasons and Persons is a philosophical work by Derek Parfit, first published in 1984. Please try again. Bring your club to Amazon Book Clubs, start a new book club and invite your friends to join, or find a club that’s right for you for free. For the 2020 holiday season, returnable items shipped between October 1 and December 31 can be returned until January 31, 2021. The third section is on personal identity and shows that the two classic western conceptions of how someone keeps their identity over time -- through the continuity of one's memories or body -- both have fatal flaws. 1. The research that went into this book is too impressive to explain; however, the print in the paperback version of the book, is so small that I have a great deal of difficulty reading it. Our payment security system encrypts your information during transmission. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Derek Parfit (11 December 1942 – 1 January 2017) was a British philosopher who specialised in problems of personal identity, rationality, ethics, and the relations among them. He wrote several books during his lifetime including Reasons and Persons and On What Matters. Does this book contain inappropriate content? Something went wrong. One of my professor's estimated that 50% of the contemporary literature in ethics is working directly from ideas in this book. The first two systematically showing that ethical egoism and common-sense intuitions about morality are incoherent and that consequentialism solve all the problems these two bases of morality contain. Deontology can't explain the Nonidentity Problem, and Utilitarianism fails to avoid the Mere Addition Paradox. Like “What am I more than elaborate sentience?” ― Derek Parfit, On What Matters. Ethics 2. This … Instead of asking, … Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 14, 2018, Promptly delivery of quality book to Norway. Parfit's writing style is really simple, but that makes the book exceptionally dense with arguments, and there is a strong sense that he spent a lot of time thinking about every word put into the book (given that he was publishing papers about topics in the book 15 years before it was published, I don't think that's a stretch). Titie. item 7 Reasons and Persons 7 - Reasons and Persons. This book has four loosely connected parts. The ideas themselves are also airtight in their reasoning. tags: philosophy-of-life. Stein Smaaland, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 20, 2019, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 7, 2011. Enter your mobile number or email address below and we'll send you a link to download the free Kindle App. Free shipping. Do you believe that this item violates a copyright? (Kieran Setiya, Times Literary Supplement)Very few works in the subject can compare with Parfit… There is no core self tethering it all together. Thanks. The author took the photo on the cover: it's really dreary. Unable to add item to List. Deontology can't explain the Nonidentity Problem, and Utilitarianism fails to avoid the Mere Addition Paradox. There was a problem loading your book clubs. Thus far, no Deontological solutions to the Nonidentity Problem nor Consequentialist solutions to the Mere Addition Paradox have satisfied people. --This text refers to an alternate. You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition. item 6 Reasons and Persons Derek Parfit 6 - Reasons and Persons Derek Parfit. Oxford University Press, USA (February 20, 1986), The ideas of a genius contained in a terribly bound book, Reviewed in the United States on January 9, 2019. Parfait has changed the way I think about personal identity and what makes someone a person over time. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Reasons and Persons. In Reasons and Persons, [Parfit's] clipped prose, with its repetitive sentences, poetic cadence and sly humour becomes the vehicle for a depth and range of insight rarely matched in recent philosophy. Parfit argues … Reviewed in the United States on October 13, 2017. It also analyzes reviews to verify trustworthiness. The main challenge which Parfit presented in his celebrated work Reasons and Persons is to develop a theory of beneficence—theory X he calls it—which is able to solve the Non-Identity … The only problem is that none of the traditional conceptions, most alarmingly deontology and consequentialism, are up to the task. $28.62. BJ1012.P39 1984 170 83-15139 ISBN 978-0-19-824908-5 (pbk) To my … Oxford, 543 pp., £17.50, April 1984, 0 19 824615 3 Show More. Enter your mobile number or email address below and we'll send you a link to download the free Kindle App. Reviewed in the United States on October 25, 2019, Reviewed in the United States on October 27, 2018, A good copy of one of the most distinguished modern philosophers, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 20, 2019. He concludes that moral non-religious moral, On What Matters: Volume One (The Berkeley Tanner Lectures), Derek Parfit’s Reasons and Persons: An Introduction and Critical Inquiry, On What Matters: Volume Two (The Berkeley Tanner Lectures Book 2), The Human Animal: Personal Identity without Psychology (Philosophy of Mind), Reasons and persons challenges, with several powerful arguments, some of our deepest beliefs about rationality, morality, and personal identity. Derek Antony Parfit FBA was a British philosopher who specialised in personal identity, rationality, and ethics. One of my professor's estimated that 50% of the contemporary literature in ethics is working directly from ideas in this book. Please try again. He is widely considered one of the most important and influential moral philosophers of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. If you sit around and wonder about self, what would happen if you joined with another self, or separated out parts of your brain into two separate people, or if you ever wonder why 1 single person is considered an organism, but not 2 people together, then this book is for you. Abstract. Single star is for the physical quality of the book. Save up to 80% by choosing the eTextbook option for ISBN: 9780191622441, 0191622443. Brilliant book. There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. Introduction. This shopping feature will continue to load items when the Enter key is pressed. Please try again. Reasons and Persons Derek Parfit. ), Reviewed in the United States on June 23, 2020. This fourth book has spawned its own industry in professional ethics, and mountains of papers can been written attempting to solve these problems. We often act wrongly, although we know there will be no one with serious grounds for complaint, and when we consider future generations it is very hard to avoid conclusions that most of us will find very disturbing. Reasons and Persons by Derek Parfit. There's a problem loading this menu right now. See all 19 - All listings … Parfait is also really good at explaining things in a way that is comprehensible. A REVIEW OF REASONS AND PERSONS BY DEREK PARFIT. Reasons and Persons is arguably the most influential of … Reasons and Persons Derek Parfit Limited preview - 1984. Thus far, no Deontological solutions to the Nonidentity Problem nor Consequentialist solutions to the Mere Addition Paradox have satisfied people. Unable to add item to List. This shopping feature will continue to load items when the Enter key is pressed. Parfait has changed the way I think about personal identity and what makes someone a person over time. 3. A class of problems is deeply probed: whether and how you evaluate the moral desert of *possible* future people (do you do someone a favor by causing them to exist? Prime members enjoy FREE Delivery and exclusive access to music, movies, TV shows, original audio series, and Kindle books. In short, Parfit contends that we have no good reasons to believe that we exist throughout our lives as the same person. Oxford University Press ( 1984 ) Authors. The Master's taste didn't extend to photography! It also analyzes reviews to verify trustworthiness. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. Then you can start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required. About the Author Derek Parfit is a research fellow at All … Parfit, the Reductionist View, and Moral Commitment ABSTRACT: In Reasons and Persons, Derek Parfit argues for a Reductionist View of personal identity. Many fascinating ideas in ethics and personhood, Reviewed in the United States on December 10, 2013, I got this book hoping for insights on temporal metaphysics and found a cornucopia of ideas, analyses, and gedankenexperiments on the nature of personhood. Reasons and Persons by Derek Parfit. Reasons and persons. Though I am not knowledgeable enough about the history of ethics to offer a meaningful comment on that, I would be really impressed if there were another book on ethics published this century that is more original and thoughtful. The first two systematically showing that ethical egoism and common-sense intuitions about morality are incoherent and that consequentialism solve all the problems these two bases of morality contain. Many fascinating ideas in ethics and personhood, Reviewed in the United States on December 10, 2013, I got this book hoping for insights on temporal metaphysics and found a cornucopia of ideas, analyses, and gedankenexperiments on the nature of personhood. The moral calculus of time and self is neatly laid out for exploration (do you have obligations to your past self?) Please try again. Please try again. You may be charged a restocking fee up to 50% of item's price for used or damaged returns and up to 100% for materially different item. Prime members enjoy FREE Delivery and exclusive access to music, movies, TV shows, original audio series, and Kindle books. The only problem is that none of the traditional conceptions, most alarmingly deontology and consequentialism, are up to the task. STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY. The ideas of a genius contained in a terribly bound book, Reviewed in the United States on January 9, 2019. Fascinating book. Such … Derek Parfit was a British philosopher who specialised in personal identity, rationality, and ethics. Part One discusses some ways in which theories about morality and rationality can be self‐defeating. I'm only a few pages in, but if you're a transhumanist, you need this book. The third section is on personal identity and shows that the two classic western conceptions of how someone keeps their identity over time -- through the continuity of one's memories or body -- both have fatal flaws. The author took the photo on the cover: it's really dreary. 17 likes. Please try your request again later. Stein Smaaland, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 20, 2019, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 7, 2011. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. The book itself has held together well, and seems to be made properly. This fourth book has spawned its own industry in professional ethics, and mountains of papers can been written attempting to solve these problems. This book is a must have, extremely thorough arguments that can be hard to follow but well worth it once you put in the effort. Reviewed in the United States on October 25, 2019, Reviewed in the United States on October 27, 2018, A good copy of one of the most distinguished modern philosophers, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 20, 2019. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. Though I am not knowledgeable enough about the history of ethics to offer a meaningful comment on that, I would be really impressed if there were another book on ethics published this century that is more original and thoughtful. The fourth section is maybe my favorite single section of any philosophy book I've read. Reasons and persons challenges, with several powerful arguments, some of our deepest beliefs about rationality, morality, and personal identity. A definite challenge that any ethical theorist must defeat. There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. It is often rational to act against our own best interests, he argues, and most of us have moral views that are self-defeating. How should we generalize about self? Challenging, with several powerful arguments, some of our deepest beliefs about rationality, morality, and personal identity, Parfit claims that we have a false view about our own nature. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. In Reasons and Persons (1984) and other works, he argued that one’s special concern is not with personal identity per se but with the psychological … Please try your request again later. Therefore, no moral theory as of yet is perfectly satisfying. The problem is that it is basically only accessible for those who are already experienced with ethics, and particularly the dense work of many of his predecessors, particularly Henry Sidgwick… It is the long-awaited follow-up to Derek Parfit's 1984 book Reasons and Persons, one of the landmarks of twentieth-century philosophy. Parfait is also really good at explaining things in a way that is comprehensible. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 14, 2018, Promptly delivery of quality book to Norway. Top subscription boxes – right to your door, Extended holiday return window till Jan 31, 2021, © 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. Includes bibiiographical references and index. We work hard to protect your security and privacy. 2 All page numbers refer to Derek Parfit: Reasons and Person , Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1984. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. Top subscription boxes – right to your door, includes free international wireless delivery via, © 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. The research that went into this book is too impressive to explain; however, the print in the paperback version of the book, is so small that I have a great deal of difficulty reading it. Chapters 10 and 11 of Derek Parfit’s Reasons and Person’s is quite capacious.This is to such an ext e nt that, in talking about these sections, it is quite difficult to compartmentalize exactly what one ought to talk about. Brilliant book. Reasons and Persons Derek Parfit No preview available - 1984. This book challenges, with several powerful arguments, some of our deepest beliefs about rationality, morality, and personal identity. The moral calculus of time and self is neatly laid out for exploration (do you have obligations to your past self?) A definite challenge that any ethical theorist must defeat. According to a Reductionist, persons are nothing … Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in. There was a problem loading your book clubs. Challenging, with several powerful arguments, some of our deepest beliefs about rationality, morality, and personal identity, Derek Parfit claims that we … (Kieran Setiya, Times Literary Supplement)Very few works in the subject can compare with Parfit… If you sit around and wonder about self, what would happen if you joined with another self, or separated out parts of your brain into two separate people, or if you ever wonder why 1 single person is considered an organism, but not 2 people together, then this book is for you. A lot of professional moral philosophers consider this the best work on ethics since Sidgwick's Methods of Ethics, which was published an entire century prior. Quite simply an awesome book, rigorous and detailed on every point, and beautiful because of it. ... Derek Parfit has written a brilliantly clever and imaginative book which treats in a very original way a … Parfit, Derek. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Like “What now matters most is that … Reviewed in the United States on January 12, 2018. The ideas themselves are also airtight in their reasoning. These promotions will be applied to this item: Some promotions may be combined; others are not eligible to be combined with other offers. Therefore, no moral theory as of yet is perfectly satisfying. Reasons and persons challenges, with several powerful arguments, some of our deepest beliefs about rationality, morality, and personal identity. Challenging, with several powerful arguments, some of our deepest beliefs about rationality, morality, and personal identity, Parfit claims that we have a false view about our own nature. Perhaps the hard cover version is better. ― Derek Parfit, Reasons and Persons. Reviewed in the United States on October 13, 2017. Read *Reasons and Persons* by Derek Parfit 这本书是今年给自己定下的阅读目标。 想要读这本书主要是因为曾经听人介绍过这本书的主要观点，觉得帕菲特（Parfit）的哲学观点和自己对于人生和价值的模 … He advocates for a reductionist picture of personal identity as a series of relationships to other people and things that wither and change over time. Read with the free Kindle apps (available on iOS, Android, PC & Mac), Kindle E-readers and on Fire Tablet devices. From what my philosophy professors indicate, Parfit is considered to have succeeded. He then discusses the ethical implications of the view. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. Challenging, with several powerful arguments, some of our deepest beliefs about rationality, morality, and personal identity, Derek Parfit claims that we have a false view about our own … A lot of professional moral philosophers consider this the best work on ethics since Sidgwick's Methods of Ethics, which was published an entire century prior. Reasons and Persons - Kindle edition by Parfit, Derek. It focuses on ethics, rationality and personal identity. To get the free app, enter your mobile phone number. Derek Parfit. This is due fundamentally to the fact that Parfit… He then discusses the ethical implications of the view. It discusses four serious problems in population ethics -- The Nonidentity Problem, the Repugnant Conclusion, the Absurd Conclusion, and the Mere Addition Paradox -- that he thinks any good moral theory must solve. 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