Reading Parfit

1. Auflage 1997
ISBN: 978-0-631-19726-3
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons

Buch, Englisch, 368 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 527 g

Reading Parfit brings together some of the most distinguished scholars in the field to discuss and critique Derek Parfit's outstanding work, Reasons and Persons.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dancy, Jonathan

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Parfit and Indirectly Self-Defeating Theories: Jonathan Dancy (University of Reading).

2. Rationality and The Rational Aim: David Gauthier (University of Pittsburgh).

3. Which Effects?: Frank Jackson (Australian National University).

4. Parfit and the Time of Value: Michael Stocker (Syracuse University).

5. Parfit's P: Philip Pettit and Michael Smith (both Australian National University).

6. Rational Egoism and the Separateness of Persons: David O. Brink (University of California, San Diego).

7. Parfit on Identity: Sydney Shoemaker (Cornell University).

8. Human Concerns without Superlative Selves: Mark Johnston (Princeton University).

9. Has Kant refuted Parfit?: Simon Blackburn (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill).

10. Persons and Their Bodies: Judith Jarvis Thomson (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).

11. Reductionism and the First Person: John McDowell (University of Pittsburgh).

12. Should Ethics be More Impersonal?: Robert Merrihew Adams (Yale University).

13. Rethinking the Good: Moral Ideals and the Nature of Practical Reasoning: Larry Temkin (Rice University).

Über Autor(innen)

Jonathan Dancy is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Reading. He has published widely in the areas of ethics and epistemology, including (co-editor with Ernest Sosa) A Companion to Epistemology (Blackwell Publishers, 1992) and Moral Reasons (Blackwell Publishers, 1992).