Search results
May 4, 2023 · In ‘Parfit: A Philosopher and His Mission to Save Morality,’ David Edmonds scrutinizes one of the 20th century’s most eccentric minds.
- Oliver Traldi
2 days ago · Fiction, 1957. Merrill gained prominence in the 1950s and ’60s as a poet. His father, Charles, was a founder of the brokerage firm Merrill Lynch, a man of enormous wealth and influence whose ...
Apr 29, 2024 · The subject, Derek Parfit (1942 – 2017), is perhaps the most important philosopher of the last fifty years, legendary for both his ideas and for his eccentricity. The biographer, David Edmonds, is an elegant and engaging writer, who was supervised as a philosophy student by Parfit.
- (376)
- Hardcover
The TLS - Why Derek Parfit thought that if morality was not objective, life was meaningless. A book review of Parfit by David Edmonds
May 22, 2023 · David Edmonds, Parfit: A Philosopher and His Mission to Save Morality. Princeton University Press, 2023, xxii + 380pp., ISBN: 978-0691225234. BOOK REVIEW; Published: 22 May 2023; Volume 60, pages 448–453, (2023) Cite this article
Mar 31, 2023 · I recently wrote a short review of David Edmond’s forthcoming biography on Derek Parfit, which I thought might be of interest to folks here for obvious reasons. I’ve included the full post below, and more info on the book can be found here .
People also ask
Is Derek Parfit a philosopher and his mission to save morality?
What are some good books about Parfit?
Is Derek Parfit a good book?
Did Derek Parfit have a sense of what matters in life?
Apr 18, 2023 · View Kindle Edition. From the bestselling coauthor of Wittgenstein’s Poker, an entertaining and illuminating biography of a brilliant philosopher who tried to rescue morality from nihilism. 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 ...
- David Edmonds