Derek Parfit presents the third volume of On What Matters, his landmark work of moral philosophy. Parfit develops further his influential treatment of reasons, normativity, the meaning of moral discourse, and the status of morality. He engages with his critics, and shows the way to resolution of their differences.
Derek Parfit presents the third volume of On What Matters, his landmark work of moral philosophy. Parfit develops further his influential treatment of reasons, normativity, the meaning of moral discourse, and the status of morality. He engages with his critics, and shows the way to resolution of their differences.
Derek Parfit is one of the leading philosophers of our time. He is a Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, Global Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at New York University, and a Fellow of the British Academy and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is the author of Reasons and Persons (OUP, 1984), one of the most influential books in philosophy of the last several decades, and the acclaimed On What Matters: Volume One and Volume Two.
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Preface Summary Part Seven: Irreducibly Normative Truths 37: How Things Might Matter 38: Normative and Natural Truths 39: Gibbard's Offer to Non-Naturalists 40: Railton's Defence of Soft Naturalism 41: Railton's Resolution of our Disagreements 42: Jackson's Non-Empirical Normative Truths 43: Schroeder's Conservative Reductive Thesis Part Eight: Expressivist Truths 44: Quasi-Realist Expressivism 45: Gibbard's Resolution of our Disagreements 46: Another Triple Theory Part Nine: Normative and Psychological Reasons 47: Expressivist Reasons 48: Subjectivist Reasons 49: Street's Meta-Ethical Constructivism 50: Morality, Blame, and Internal Reasons 51: Nietzsche's Mountain 52: What Matters and Universal Reasons 53: Act Consequentialism, Reasons, and Morality
