Derek Parfit: His Life and Thought

This volume of essays is devoted to exploring Derek Parfit's life and legacy. 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.

List of contents

• 1: Jonathan Dancy: Derek Parfit, 1942-2017: Biographical Memoir for the British Academy


• 2: Janet Radcliffe Richards: My Lovely Duomaniac


• 3: Larry Temkin: To Derek, with Love


• 4: Theodora Ooms: My Brother Derek


• 5: Jeff McMahan: Derek Parfit as I Knew Him


• 6: Jonathan Glover: "My Work Is My Life": How Derek's Identity Survived across Time


• 7: Ingmar Persson: Derek, to My Mind


• 8: Ruth Chang: Not Quite a Person


• 9: Thomas Kelly: "Some Philosophical Questions Are Sublime": Memories of Derek Parfit


• 10: F. M. Kamm: Philosophy and Art with Parfit

About the author

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).

Summary

This volume of essays is devoted to exploring Derek Parfit's life and legacy. 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.

Product details

• Authors: Jeff (Emeritus Sekyra and White''''s Prof Mcmahan
• Assisted by: McMahan (Editor), McMahan Jeff (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 19.06.2025
• EAN: 9780192894243
• ISBN: 978-0-19-289424-3
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Philosophers, Biography: general, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, History of Western philosophy, Biography: philosophy and social sciences