Theo Todman's Book Collection - Works by Author

Derek Parfit

[Parfit (Derek)]

This Page provides links to the Books and Papers (including Book Chapters, where I have itemised these) by this Author contained in my collection. Clearly, there may be many more works in the Author's oeuvre that I don't possess. An introductory note on the Author appears first. If any (other) Authors, Books, Papers or Notes in my collection cite this Author, a table of links is provided before the list of the Author's works. Scroll down or follow the links above.

Author Narrative:

• Much could be written, and has been.
• Links to further links (mostly picked up on below):-
  → Daily Nous: Derek Parfit (1942-2017)
  → Harvard: In Memoriam: Derek Parfit
• See various Interviews and Obituaries:-
  → "MacFarquhar (Larissa) - How to be Good" (New Yorker: Derek Parfit - How to be Good)
  → "Matthews (Dylan) - The whole philosophy community is mourning Derek Parfit - Here's why he mattered" (Vox: Derek Parfit - Here's why he mattered)
  → "Edmonds (David) - Obituary: Derek Parfit" (The Times: Obituary - Derek Parfit)
  → "Fenwick (Cody) - Derek Parfit, Renowned Philosopher of Ethics, Mind and Metaphysics, Dies at 74" (Patch: Derek Parfit)
  → "Wikipedia - Derek Parfit" (Wikipedia: Derek Parfit)
  → "Edmonds (David) - Reason and romance: The world’s most cerebral marriage" (Prospect: Reason and romance: The world’s most cerebral marriage)
  → "Williams (Bernard), LRB - Personal Identity" (LRB: Bernard Williams - Parfit - Personal Identity)
  → "Baggini (Julian) - When Derek Parfit published, it mattered" (Prospect: When Derek Parfit published, it mattered
  → "McMahan (Jeff) - Obituary of Derek Parfit" (McMahan - Obituary of Derek Parfit)
  → "Srinivasan (Amia), LRB - Remembering Derek Parfit" (LRB: Remembering Derek Parfit)
  → "Munthe (Christian) - Remembering Derek Parfit" (Philosophical Comment: Remembering Derek Parfit)
  → "Grimes (William) - Derek Parfit, Philosopher Who Explored Identity and Moral Choice, Dies at 74" (New York Times: Obituary - Derek Parfit)
  → "Shoemaker (David) - The Death of Derek Parfit" (Pea Soup: The Death of Derek Parfit)
  → "Hodgkin (Adam) - Derek Parfit, typesetting and marmalade" (Adam Hodgkin: Derek Parfit, typesetting and marmalade)
  → "O'Grady (Jane) - Derek Parfit obituary" (The Guardian: Derek Parfit Obituary)
• For a Bibliography, with lots of "free" texts, see:-
  → Derek Parfit: Bibliography
• Also, a few Videos & Talks:-
  → YouTube: Brainspotting - Derek Parfit
  → Derek Parfit: Lecture - The Non-Identity Problem (Parfit¹'s last talk, November 2016, says Jeff McMahan)
  → YouTube: Wireless Philosophy - The Non-Identity Problem
  → Derek Parfit Harvard Lecture - Reasons, Persons, and Effective Altruism
  → Celebration of Derek Parfit

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Authors, Books, Papers & Notes Citing this Author

Author	Title	Medium	Extra Links	Read?
Aeon	Video - Out of mind	Paper		Yes
Aeon	Video - The happiest guy in the world	Paper		Yes
Alexander (Ronald)	The Self, Supervenience and Personal Identity: Introduction	Paper
Amis (Kingsley)	Lucky Jim	Paper		Yes
Atkins (Kim)	Personal Identity and the Importance of One's Own Body: A Response to Derek Parfit	Paper
Baggini (Julian)	When Derek Parfit published, it mattered	Paper		Yes
Beck (Simon)	Parfit and the Russians	Paper
Behrendt (Kathy)	The New Neo-Kantian And Reductionist Debate	Paper
Belshaw (Christopher)	Death, Pain and Time	Paper
Belshaw (Christopher)	More Lives, Better Lives	Paper
Belzer (Marvin)	Self-Conception and Personal Identity: Revisiting Parfit and Lewis with an Eye on the Grip of the Unity Reaction	Paper
Blackburn (Simon)	All Souls Night - Parfit on Expressivism	Paper	2
Blackburn (Simon)	Review of Derek Parfit's 'On What Matters'	Paper		Yes
Bourget (David) & Chalmers (David)	The PhilPapers Surveys: What Do Philosophers Believe?	Paper		Yes
Broome (John)	Reasons and Motivation	Paper
Callcut (Daniel)	Wrestling with relativism	Paper		Yes
Campbell (Scott)	The Conception of a Person as a Series of Mental Events	Paper
Cerullo (Michael A.)	Uploading and Branching Identity	Paper
Clark (Andy) & Kuhn (Robert Lawrence)	Aeon: Video - Andy Clark - Virtual immortality	Paper		Yes
Colen (J.A.)	In Memoriam Derek Parfit (1942-2017)	Paper		Yes
Cooper (Wesley)	Parfit, Heroic Death, and Symbolic Utility	Paper	2
Dancy (Jonathan)	Reading Parfit: Preface	Paper		Yes
Dancy (Jonathan), Ed.	Reading Parfit	Book
Edmonds (David)	Obituary: Derek Parfit	Paper		Yes
Edmonds (David)	Parfit: A Philosopher and His Mission to Save Morality	Book
Edmonds (David)	Reason and romance: The world’s most cerebral marriage	Paper		Yes
Frederick (Shane)	Time Preference & Personal Identity	Paper
Glover (Jonathan)	I: Philosophy and Psychology of Personal Identity: Preface	Paper		Yes
Goodman (Charles)	Vaibhāṣika Metaphoricalism	Paper
Grimes (William)	Derek Parfit, Philosopher Who Explored Identity and Moral Choice, Dies at 74	Paper		Yes
Hales (Steven D.)	Evidence and the Afterlife	Paper
Hanfling (Oswald), Ed.	Life and Meaning - A Reader	Book
Harris (Henry)	Identity - Essays Based on Herbert Spencer Lectures Given in the University of Oxford	Book
Harris (Henry)	Identity: Introduction	Paper		Yes
Hershenov (David)	Death, Persons, and Sparse Ontologies: The Problem of Too Many Dying Thinkers	Paper
Hodgkin (Adam)	Derek Parfit, typesetting and marmalade	Paper		Yes
Hodgson (David)	The Mind Matters - Consciousness and Choice in a Quantum World	Book
Huenemann (Charlie)	If I teleport from Mars, does the original me get destroyed?	Paper		Yes
Johnston (Mark)	Human Beings	Paper		Yes
Kagan (Shelly)	The badness of death, Part III; Immortality, Part I	Paper		Yes
Kamm (F.M.)	Supererogation, Obligation, and Intransitivity	Paper
Kavka (Gregory S.)	The Paradox of Future Individuals	Paper
Kolak (Daniel)	I Am You: The Metaphysical Foundations for Global Ethics	Book
Korsgaard (Christine)	Self-Constitution: Agency, Identity, and Integrity	Paper
Kurtz (Roxanne)	Introduction to Persistence: What’s the Problem?	Paper		Yes
Lerner (Berel Dov)	Review of 'Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction' by David Shoemaker	Paper		Yes
Levy (Steven)	Artificial Life: The Quest for a New Creation	Paper
LRB	London Review of Books	Paper	2
MacFarquhar (Larissa)	How to be Good	Paper		Yes
Madden (Rory)	Thinking Parts	Paper
Matthews (Dylan)	The whole philosophy community is mourning Derek Parfit - Here's why he mattered	Paper		Yes
Matthews (Gareth B.)	Surviving As	Paper
Merricks (Trenton)	Endurance, Psychological Continuity, and the Importance of Personal Identity	Paper
Munthe (Christian)	Remembering Derek Parfit	Paper		Yes
Noonan (Harold)	The Possibility of Reincarnation	Paper
O'Grady (Jane)	Derek Parfit obituary	Paper		Yes
Olson (Eric)	Life After Death and the Devastation of the Grave	Paper		Yes
Olson (Eric)	Parfit’s Metaphysics and What Matters in Survival	Paper
Olson (Eric)	Persistence	Paper	2	Yes
Parfit (Derek)	A Response (to Gillett - Reasoning About Persons)	Paper
Parfit (Derek)	An Interview with Derek Parfit	Paper
Parfit (Derek)	Summary of Discussion	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14	Yes
Persson (Ingmar)	Our Identity and the Separability of Person and Organism	Paper
Rumfitt (Ian)	Infinitesimals, Nations, and Persons	Paper
Ryberg (Jesper) & Tännsjö (Torbjörn), Eds.	The Repugnant Conclusion: Essays on Population Ethics - Introduction	Paper		Yes
Schechtman (Marya)	Personality and Persistence: The Many Faces of Personal Survival	Paper
Schechtman (Marya)	Personhood and Personal Identity	Paper
Sen (Amartya)	Rational Fools: A Critique of the Behavioural Foundations of Economic Theory	Paper
Sepielli (Andrew)	Ethics has no foundation	Paper		Yes
Shoemaker (David)	The Death of Derek Parfit	Paper		Yes
Shoemaker (David)	Theoretical Persons and Practical Agents	Paper
Singer (Peter)	Applied Ethics (Oxford Readings in Philosopy)	Book
Singer (Peter)	Ethics (Oxford Readers)	Book	2
Smith (Barry C.), Broks (Paul), Kennedy (A.L.) & Evans (Jules)	Audio: What Does It Mean to Be Me?	Paper		Yes
Snowdon (Paul)	Persons, Animals, Ourselves: Preface	Paper		Yes
Sobel (David)	Pain for Objectivists: The Case of Matters of Mere Taste	Paper
Sorabji (Richard)	Self: Ancient and Modern Insights about Individuality, Life, and Death	Book
Srinivasan (Amia), LRB	Remembering Derek Parfit	Paper		Yes
Stokes (Patrick)	Locke, Kierkegaard and the Phenomenology of Personal Identity	Paper
Swinburne (Richard)	Response to Derek Parfit	Paper
Todman (Theo)	Animalists	Note
Todman (Theo)	Connectedness vs Continuity	Note	2
Todman (Theo)	Johnston - Human Beings	Note
Todman (Theo)	Kurtz - Persistence (Introduction)	Note
Todman (Theo)	London Review of Books	Note	2
Todman (Theo)	Parfit	Note	2, 3
Todman (Theo)	Reductionism	Note
Todman (Theo)	Survival	Note
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Animalists	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 03 (What is a Person?)	Note
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 03 (What is a Person?)	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 05 (Persistence and Time)	Note
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 05 (Persistence and Time)	Paper	2	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 05 (Persistence and Time)	Note
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 06 (Animalism and Arguments for It)	Note
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 06 (Animalism and Arguments for It)	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Connectedness vs Continuity	Paper	2	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Parfit	Paper	2, 3	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Personal Identity	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Personal Identity	Note	2
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Personal Identity	Paper	2	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Personal Identity	Note
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Personal Identity	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Personal Identity	Note
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Reductionism	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Survival	Paper		Yes
Unger (Peter)	Identity, Consciousness and Value	Book	2	Yes
Wikipedia	Derek Parfit	Paper		Yes
Wilkinson (Dominic) & Doolabh (Keyur)	Which lives matter most?	Paper		Yes
Williams (Bernard)	Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy: Preface	Paper		Yes

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Author's Books In My Possession

Author	Title	Pages	Read?	Further Information
Parfit (Derek)	Climbing the Mountain	310		Book
Parfit (Derek)	On What Matters: Volume One	592	3%	Book Abstract
Parfit (Derek)	On What Matters: Volume Three	488	1%	Book Abstract
Parfit (Derek)	On What Matters: Volume Two	848	1%	Book Abstract
Parfit (Derek)	Reasons and Persons	543	Yes	Book Abstract

Author's Papers In My Possession

Author	Title	Pages	Read?	Further Information
Parfit (Derek)	A reply to Sterba	2		Paper Abstract
Parfit (Derek)	A Response (to Gillett - Reasoning About Persons)	11		Paper Abstract
Parfit (Derek)	Acts and outcomes: a reply to Boonin-Vail	10	11%	Paper Abstract
Parfit (Derek) & Cowen (Tyler)	Against the social discount rate	16	7%	Paper Abstract
Parfit (Derek)	An attack on the social discount rate	4	17%	Paper Abstract
Parfit (Derek)	An Interview with Derek Parfit	11	11%	Paper Abstract
Parfit (Derek)	Another defence of the priority view	42	3%	Paper Abstract
Parfit (Derek)	Appendix (to Reasons and Persons) - Non-Identity Appendices	36	Yes	Paper Abstract
Parfit (Derek)	Bombs and coconuts, or rational irrationality	17	7%	Paper Abstract
Parfit (Derek)	Can we avoid the repugnant conclusion?	18	7%	Paper Abstract
Parfit (Derek)	Comments	41	3%	Paper Abstract
Parfit (Derek)	Concluding Chapter (to Reasons and Persons)	14	Yes	Paper
Parfit (Derek)	Conclusions (to Part 1: Self-Defeating Theories)	6	Yes	Paper
Parfit (Derek)	Correspondence - 1	2		Paper Abstract
Parfit (Derek)	Correspondence - 2	3		Paper Abstract
Parfit (Derek)	Different Attitudes To Time	38	Yes	Paper Abstract
Parfit (Derek)	Divided Minds and the Nature of Persons	10	22%	Paper Abstract
Parfit (Derek)	Equality and priority	20	11%	Paper Abstract
Parfit (Derek)	Equality or priority?	44	6%	Paper Abstract
Parfit (Derek)	Experiences, subjects, and conceptual schemes	54	20%	Paper Abstract
Parfit (Derek)	Five Mistakes in Moral Mathematics	20	Yes	Paper Abstract
Parfit (Derek)	Future Generations: Further Problems	60	4%	Paper Abstract
Parfit (Derek)	Future people, the non-identity problem, and person-affecting principles	40	6%	Paper Abstract
Parfit (Derek)	How We Are Not What We Believe	26	Yes	Paper Abstract
Parfit (Derek)	Innumerate ethics	17	13%	Paper Abstract
Parfit (Derek)	Is Common-Sense Morality Self-Defeating?	14		Paper Abstract
Parfit (Derek)	Is personal identity what matters?	87	3%	Paper Abstract
Parfit (Derek)	Isaiah Berlin	1	Yes	Paper Abstract
Parfit (Derek)	Justifiability to Each Person	23	10%	Paper Abstract
Parfit (Derek)	Kant’s arguments for his formula of universal law	14	17%	Paper Abstract
Parfit (Derek)	Later selves and moral principles	33	11%	Paper Abstract
Parfit (Derek)	Lewis, Perry, and What Matters	18	Yes	Paper Abstract
Parfit (Derek)	Nagel's Brain	9	Yes	Paper Abstract
Parfit (Derek)	Normativity	56	7%	Paper Abstract
Parfit (Derek)	On 'The Importance of Self-Identity'	8	11%	Paper Abstract
Parfit (Derek)	On What Matters: Volume One - Appendices & Notes	140		Paper Abstract
Parfit (Derek)	On What Matters: Volume One - Part 1: Reasons	146	5%	Paper Abstract
Parfit (Derek)	On What Matters: Volume One - Part 2: Principles	98	7%	Paper Abstract
Parfit (Derek)	On What Matters: Volume One - Part 3: Theories	145	5%	Paper Abstract
Parfit (Derek)	On What Matters: Volume One - Preface & Summary	44	42%	Paper
Parfit (Derek)	On What Matters: Volume Two - Appendices & Notes	100		Paper Abstract
Parfit (Derek)	On What Matters: Volume Two - Part 5: Responses to Commentaries	120	6%	Paper Abstract
Parfit (Derek)	On What Matters: Volume Two - Part 6: Normativity	358	2%	Paper Abstract
Parfit (Derek)	On What Matters: Volume Two - Preface & Summary	32	28%	Paper
Parfit (Derek)	Overpopulation and the Quality of Life	18	7%	Paper Abstract
Parfit (Derek)	Paul Seabright: pluralism and the standard of living	8	22%	Paper Abstract
Parfit (Derek)	Personal and omnipersonal duties	15	17%	Paper Abstract
Parfit (Derek)	Personal Identity	28	Yes	Paper Abstract
Parfit (Derek)	Personal Identity and Morality	30	Yes	Paper Abstract
Parfit (Derek)	Personal Identity and Rationality	14	Yes	Paper Abstract
Parfit (Derek)	Personal Identity and Rationality	15		Paper Abstract
Parfit (Derek)	Persons, Bodies, and Human Beings	32	7%	Paper Abstract
Parfit (Derek)	Postscript	1	Yes	Paper Abstract
Parfit (Derek)	Practical Dilemmas	14	Yes	Paper Abstract
Parfit (Derek)	Prudence, morality, and the prisoner's dilemma	26	14%	Paper Abstract
Parfit (Derek)	Rationality and Reasons	23	14%	Paper Abstract
Parfit (Derek)	Rationality and Time	36	3%	Paper Abstract
Parfit (Derek)	Reasons and Motivation	32		Paper Abstract
Parfit (Derek)	Reasons and Persons: Introduction	2	Yes	Paper Abstract
Parfit (Derek)	Responses	48	13%	Paper Abstract
Parfit (Derek)	Rights, interests, and possible people	7	33%	Paper Abstract
Parfit (Derek)	Summary of Discussion	6	Yes	Paper Abstract
Parfit (Derek)	The Absurd Conclusion	20	Yes	Paper Abstract
Parfit (Derek)	The Appeal to Full Relativity	12	Yes	Paper Abstract
Parfit (Derek)	The Best Objections To the Self-Interest Theory	20	Yes	Paper Abstract
Parfit (Derek)	The Closest Continuer Schema	3	Yes	Paper Abstract
Parfit (Derek)	The Indeterminacy Of Identity: A Reply To Brueckner	11	11%	Paper Abstract
Parfit (Derek)	The Mere Addition Paradox	24	Yes	Paper Abstract
Parfit (Derek)	The Non-Identity Problem	30	Yes	Paper Abstract
Parfit (Derek)	The Puzzle of Reality: Why Does the Universe Exist?	9	56%	Paper Abstract
Parfit (Derek)	The Repugnant Conclusion	10	Yes	Paper Abstract
Parfit (Derek)	The Unimportance of Identity	34	3%	Paper Abstract
Parfit (Derek)	Theories That Are Directly Self-Defeating	24	Yes	Paper Abstract
Parfit (Derek)	Theories That Are Indirectly Self-Defeating	50	Yes	Paper Abstract
Parfit (Derek)	We Are Not Human Beings	24	43%	Paper Abstract
Parfit (Derek)	What Does Matter	26	Yes	Paper Abstract
Parfit (Derek)	What We Believe Ourselves To Be	20	Yes	Paper Abstract
Parfit (Derek)	What We Could Rationally Will	85	61%	Paper Abstract
Parfit (Derek)	What We Together Do	34	3%	Paper Abstract
Parfit (Derek)	Who do you think you are?	2	Yes	Paper Abstract
Parfit (Derek)	Why anything? Why this?	19	11%	Paper Abstract
Parfit (Derek)	Why does the universe exist?	4	Yes	Paper Abstract
Parfit (Derek)	Why is Reality as It Is?	7	33%	Paper Abstract
Parfit (Derek)	Why Our Identity is Not What Matters	36	Yes	Paper Abstract
Parfit (Derek)	Why Our Identity is Not What Matters (Excerpts)	29	Yes	Paper Abstract
Parfit (Derek)	Why We Should Reject S	12	Yes	Paper Abstract

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