Reasons and Persons

Name: Reasons and Persons
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ISBN: 9780198246152

ISBN-10: 0198246153

ISBN-13: 9780198246152

Edition: 1984

Authors: Derek Parfit

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"Very few works in the subject can compare with Parfit's in scope, fertility, imaginative resource, and cogency of reasoning."--P.F. Strawson, The New York Review of Books. "Extraordinary...Brilliant...Astonishingly rich in ideas...Reasons and Persons is a major contribution to philosophy: it will be read, honoured, and argued about for many years to come."--Samuel Scheffler, Times Literary Supplement. "A brilliantly clever and imaginative book...Strange and excitingly intense."--Alan Ryan, Sunday Times (London). "Not many books reset the philosophical agenda in the way that his one does...Western philosophy, especially systematic ethics, will not be the same again."--Annette Baier,…

Book details

List price: $55.00
Copyright year: 1984
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/28/1984
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 560
Size: 6.31" wide x 9.50" long x 1.36" tall
Weight: 1.672
Language: English

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 authorof Reasons and Persons (OUP, 1984), one of the most influential books in philosophy of the last several decades.