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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. [5] [6] [7]
Reasons and Persons is a 1984 book by the philosopher Derek Parfit, in which the author discusses ethics, rationality and personal identity.. It is divided into four parts, dedicated to self-defeating theories, rationality and time, personal identity and responsibility toward future generations.
of more than 7,000 leaders, found that women outperformed men on 12 of 16 measures of outstanding leadership competencies and scored the same as men in the other four. These women and men were rated by managers, peers, direct reports and others. While women outscored men on “nurturing” competencies such as relationship building and developing
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.
2011-12 (Harvard): Esther Duflo—"Human Values and the Design of the Fight against Poverty" 2011-12 (Cambridge): Ernst Fehr—"The Psychology and Economics of Authority" 2011-12 (Princeton): Stephen Greenblatt—"Shakespeare and the Shape of a Life: The Uses of Life Stories" 2011-12 (Yale): Lisa Jardine—"The Two Cultures: Still Under ...
The Huffington Post and YouGov asked 124 women why they choose to be childfree. Their motivations ranged from preferring their current lifestyles (64 percent) to prioritizing their careers (9 percent) — a.k.a. fairly universal things that have motivated men not to have children for centuries.
Derek Parfit. This debate about further facts concerning personal identity over time is most closely associated with Derek Parfit. In his Reasons and Persons, he describes the non-reductionist's view that "personal identity is a deep further fact, distinct from physical and psychological continuity". [1]
When Combs’s homes were raided by federal investigators in March, Ventura’s attorney said in a statement, “We will always support law enforcement when it seeks to prosecute those that have ...