Derek Parfit - Full Address

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Derek Parfit is a British philosopher who specialises in problems of personal identity, rationality, ethics, and the relations among them.

His 1984 book Reasons and Persons, has been very influential. His most recent book, On What Matters, was widely circulated and discussed for many years before its publication.


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