The stunningly original British philosopher Derek Parfit, who died in 2017, was known for work that forms the core of the modern metaphysical study of personal identity. With the help of some sci-fi ...

Derek Parfit, pictured at Oxford in 2015, published seldom, but his works of philosophy were ambitious and influential. Rex Features, via Associated Press Mr. Parfit was a British philosopher whose ...

Chances are, unless you’re a philosopher, you’ve never heard of Derek Parfit. A philosopher’s philosopher, he spent most of his career far from the madding crowd in the cloisters of All Souls College, ...

I find the following argument convincing. (1) If equality is intrinsically good, then, other things being equal, leveling down is good. (2) It is false that other things being equal, leveling down is ...

Personal Identity and the Unity of Agency: A Kantian Response to Parfit Personal Identity and the Unity of Agency: A Kantian Response to Parfit (pp. 101-132) ...