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Derek Antony Parfit FBA (/ ˈ p ɑːr f ɪ t /; 11 December 1942 – 2 January 2017 [3] [4]) was a British philosopher who specialised in personal identity, rationality, and ethics. He is widely considered one of the most important and influential moral philosophers of the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
The teletransportation paradox or teletransport paradox (also known in alternative forms as the duplicates paradox) is a thought experiment on the philosophy of identity that challenges common intuitions on the nature of self and consciousness, formulated by Derek Parfit in his 1984 book Reasons and Persons. [1]
However, this may be unnecessary since Jeff McMahan, Parfit's literary executor and one of his closest friends, lists January 2 in his Philosophy Now obituary and also in an unpublished brochure circulated during Parfit's celebration event, the first line of which reads: "For many years before his death on 2 January 2017, Derek Parfit was ...
The 37-year-old hiker, who authorities have not identified, likely fell to his death while trekking the mile-long Canyon Overlook Trail sometime before 7 a.m. when park officials received a report ...
The economist Tyler Cowen has expressed admiration for Parfit's style ("Reading him is an unforgettable and illuminating experience") in On What Matters, but argues: . I see the biggest and most central part of the book as a failure, possibly wrong but more worryingly "not even wrong" and simply missing the questions defined by where the frontier – choice theory and not just philosophic ...
Jesse Grant/Getty Images for Disney Update 1/9/24/10:45 a.m. ET Hayley Erbert is celebrating her husband Derek Hough’s career success one month after undergoing emergency surgery for a cranial ...
Kenslee Spears, 5 months old, died on July 18, 2019. Derek Bush was convicted in February 2020 and sentenced to life in prison. ... apologized to the family for what he maintains was an accident ...
The mere addition paradox (also known as the repugnant conclusion) is a problem in ethics identified by Derek Parfit and discussed in his book Reasons and Persons (1984). The paradox identifies the mutual incompatibility of four intuitively compelling assertions about the relative value of populations.