Parfit: A Philosopher and His Mission to Save Morality

Parfit: A Philosopher and His Mission to Save Morality

Derek Parfit (1942–2017) is the most famous philosopher most people have never heard of. Widely regarded as one of the greatest moral thinkers of the past hundred years, Parfit was anything but a public intellectual. Yet his ideas have shaped the way philosophers think about things that affect us all: equality, altruism, what we owe to future generations, and even what it means to be a person. In?Parfit, David Edmonds presents the first biography of an intriguing, obsessive, and eccentric genius.



About the Author

David Edmonds?is a writer and philosopher whose many critically acclaimed books have been translated into more than two dozen languages. He is the author of?The Murder of Professor Schlick?and?Would You Kill the Fat Man? (both Princeton) and the coauthor, with John Eidinow, of the international bestseller?Wittgenstein’s Poker. He and Nigel Warburton cohost the popular?Philosophy Bites?podcast.


Parfit: A Philosopher and His Mission to Save Morality David Edmonds From the bestselling coauthor of Wittgenstein’s Poker, an entertaining and illuminating biography of a brilliant philosopher who tried to rescue morality from nihilism
From the bestselling coauthor of Wittgenstein’s Poker, an entertaining and illuminating biography of a brilliant philosopher who tried to rescue morality from nihilism
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