Derek Parfit (1942–2017)
Autor/a de Reasons and Persons
Sobre l'autor
Derek Antony Parfit was born in Chengdu, China on December 11, 1942 to parents who were doctors teaching preventive medicine at Christian missions. He received a degree in modern history in 1964 from Balliol College, Oxford. While on a Harkness Fellowship at Harvard University and Columbia mostra'n més University after graduation, he began attending lectures on philosophy and changed course. He was elected to a prize fellowship at All Souls College, Oxford, and had become a senior research fellow by 1984. He wrote several books during his lifetime including Reasons and Persons and On What Matters. In 2014, he was awarded the Rolf Schock Prize by the Royal Swedish Academy. He died on January 2, 2017 at the age of 74. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
Crèdit de la imatge: Derek Parfit at Harvard (2015) - photo by Anna Riedl
Sèrie
Obres de Derek Parfit
Why Anything? Why This? 2 exemplars
Moral & rationalitet 1 exemplars
Obres associades
Reading Metaphysics: Selected Texts with Interactive Commentary (Reading Philosophy) (2007) — Col·laborador — 17 exemplars
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Coneixement comú
- Nom normalitzat
- Parfit, Derek
- Nom oficial
- Parfit, Derek Antony
- Data de naixement
- 1942-12-11
- Data de defunció
- 2017-01-01
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- UK
- Lloc de naixement
- Chengdu, Sichuan, China
- Lloc de defunció
- Lodnon, England, UK
- Llocs de residència
- Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
London, England, UK - Educació
- Balliol College, Oxford University (BA|1964)
Harvard University (Harkness Fellow)
Eton College
Dragon School - Professions
- professor (philosophy)
philosopher - Relacions
- Richards, Janet Radcliffe (wife)
- Organitzacions
- All Souls College, Oxford University (Fellow)
- Premis i honors
- Rolf Schock Prize (2014)
Fellow, British Academy (1986)
T. H. Green Prize (1977)
Membres
Ressenyes
Llistes
Premis
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 11
- També de
- 6
- Membres
- 1,164
- Popularitat
- #22,078
- Valoració
- 4.1
- Ressenyes
- 8
- ISBN
- 35
- Llengües
- 4
- Preferit
- 1
Best work on moral philosophy from this century that I have read. Can't recommend highly enough.