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I’ve made an attempt to categorise my accumulated papers by subject, topic and sub-topic. Herewith is the full list of philosophy - and other - papers, segregated by sub-topic. Book chapters are broken out in many cases, where I could be bothered, otherwise a book is represented by a single entry. In that case, if the 'paper' has no Abstract, the Book Abstract is given instead.

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Adams (Robert Merrihew) Should Ethics be More Impersonal? 4 More Dancy - Reading Parfit, 1997, Chapter 12 39  
Alexander (Ronald) A Major Problem With Parfit 2 Abstract
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Alexander (Ronald) - The Self, Supervenience and Personal Identity, 1997, Chapter 9 11 11%
Appleyard (Bryan) Derek Parfit’s quest for perfection 1 More New Statesman, 6 June 2018 8 Yes
Arrhenius (Gustaf) The Paradoxes Of Future Generations And Normative Theory 2 Abstract
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Ryberg (Jesper) & Tännsjö (Torbjörn), Eds. - The Repugnant Conclusion: Essays on Population Ethics, pp. 201-218 18  
Atkins (Kim) Personal Identity and the Importance of One's Own Body: A Response to Derek Parfit 2 Abstract
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International Journal of Philosophical Studies, Volume 8, Number 3, 1 October 2000, pp. 329-349(21). 21 6%
Baggini (Julian) Psychological Reductionism About Persons: A Critical Development 2 Abstract
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PhD thesis, University College London, 1996 217 1%
Baggini (Julian) When Derek Parfit published, it mattered 1 Abstract
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Prospect Magazine, 4th January 2017 2 Yes
Baillie (James) Identity and Survival 1 Abstract
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Baillie (James) - Problems in Personal Identity, 1993, Chapter 2 28  
Baker (Deane-Peter) Taylor and Parfit on Personal Identity: a Response to Lotter 1 Abstract
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South African Journal of Philosophy, Aug99, Vol. 18 Issue 3, p331, 16p 16 Yes
Beck (Simon) Parfit and the Russians 1 Abstract
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Analysis, Vol. 49, No. 4, Oct., 1989, pp. 205-209 5 17%
Beck (Simon) Should We Tolerate People Who Split? 2 Abstract
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Southern Journal of Philosophy, 1992 30:1-17 17  
Belshaw (Christopher) More Lives, Better Lives 3 Abstract
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Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, Vol. 6, No. 2, June 2003, pp. 127-141 15  
Belzer (Marvin) Notes on Relation R 1 Abstract
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Analysis, Vol. 56, No. 1, Jan., 1996, pp. 56-62 7 17%
Belzer (Marvin) Self-Conception and Personal Identity: Revisiting Parfit and Lewis with an Eye on the Grip of the Unity Reaction 1 Abstract
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Paul, Miller & Paul - Personal Identity, 2005 39 3%
Benbaji (Yitzhak) The Moral, The Personal, and the Importance of What We Care About 3 Abstract
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Philosophy - 78, Issue 03, Jul 2003, pp 321-336 15  
Berglund (Stefan) The Importance of Identity 2 Abstract
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Berglund - Human and Personal Identity (PhD Dissertation, Lund University), Chapter 7, 1995, pp. 159-186 28  
Black (Sam) Altruism and the Separateness of Persons 5 Abstract
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Social Theory & Practice, Jul2001, Vol. 27 Issue 3, p361, 25p; 25  
Blackburn (Simon) All Souls Night - Parfit on Expressivism 2 Abstract
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Singer (Peter), Ed. - Does Anything Really Matter? Essays on Parfit on Objectivity, 2017, Chapter 4 18  
Blackburn (Simon) Has Kant Refuted Parfit? 1 Abstract
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Dancy - Reading Parfit, 1997, Chapter 9 22 78%
Blackorby (Charles), Bossert (Walter) & Donaldson (David) Critical-Level Population Principles And The Repugnant Conclusion 2 Abstract
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Ryberg (Jesper) & Tännsjö (Torbjörn), Eds. - The Repugnant Conclusion: Essays on Population Ethics, pp. 45-60 16  
Bodanszky (Eva) Parfit on Selves and Their Interests 3 More Analysis, vol 47, 1987, pp. 47-50 3  
Bourgeois (Warren) Contemporary Philosophers' Views on Persons: Parfit: The Oxford Buddhist 1 Abstract
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Bourgeois - Persons: What Philosophers Say about You, 2003, Chapter 13 26 5%
Brandt (Richard B.) Rationality, Egoism, and Morality 3 More Journal of Philosophy, vol. LXIX, 1972, pp. 681-697 17  
Bratman (Michael E.) Reflection, Planning, and Temporally Extended Agency 2 Abstract
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Philosophical Review 109, No. 1, Jan., 2000, pp. 35-61 27  
Brennan (Andrew) Survival and Importance 1 Abstract
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Analysis, vol. 47, 1987, pp. 225-230 6 17%
Briggs (Rachael) & Nolan (Daniel) Utility Monsters for the Fission Age 1 Abstract
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Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Volume96, Issue3, September 2015, Pages 392-407 23  
Brink (David) Rational Egoism and the Separateness of Persons 2 More Dancy - Reading Parfit, 1997, Chapter 6 41  
Broome (John) Reasons and Motivation 3 Abstract
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Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Volumes, Vol. 71 (1997), pp. 99-146 16  
Brueckner (Anthony) Branching in the psychological approach to personal identity 1 Abstract
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Analysis 65, October 2005, pp. 294-301(8) 8 11%
Butkovic (Ana) Does Identity Really Matter? Parfit vs Lewis 1 Abstract
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ResearchGate, 2010 21 6%
Campbell (Scott) Is Causation Necessary for What Matters in Survival? 1 Abstract
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Philosophical Studies 126, Number 3, December 2005, pp. 375-396(22). 22 6%
Campbell (Scott) Strawson, Parfit and Impersonality 1 Abstract
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Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 30, No. 2 (Jun., 2000), pp. 207-223 17 7%
Cartwright (Helen Morris) On Two Arguments for the Indeterminacy of Personal Identity 1 Abstract
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Synthese 95, 1993, 241-273 33 4%
Cassam (Quassim) Parfit on Persons 1 Abstract
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Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 93: 17-37, 1992 21 Yes
Chappell (Richard Yetter) Knowing What Matters 2 More Singer (Peter), Ed. - Does Anything Really Matter? Essays on Parfit on Objectivity, 2017, Chapter 7 20  
Chappell (Tim), Chappell (Sophie Grace) Personal Identity, 'R-Relatedness' And The Empty Question Argument 1 Abstract
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Philosophical Quarterly, 1995, Vol. 45 Issue 178, p88, 5p; 5 17%
Chappell (Tim), Chappell (Sophie Grace) Reductionism about Persons; And What Matters 1 Abstract
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Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, New Series, Vol. 98 (1998), pp. 41-57 17 7%
Cherry (Christopher) Mine and Mattering 4 Abstract
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Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol. 47, No. 2, Dec., 1986, pp. 297-304 8  
Colen (J.A.) In Memoriam Derek Parfit (1942-2017) 1 Abstract
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Ethical Perspectives 23, no. 2 (2018): 321-338 18 Yes
Cooper (Wesley) Parfit, Heroic Death, and Symbolic Utility 1 Abstract
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Journal of Social Philosophy, Summer2002, Vol. 33 Issue 2, p221-239, 19p; 19 6%
Cowen (Tyler) Resolving The Repugnant Conclusion 2 Abstract
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Ryberg (Jesper) & Tännsjö (Torbjörn), Eds. - The Repugnant Conclusion: Essays on Population Ethics, pp. 81-98 18  
Cowley (Fraser) The Identity of a Person and His Body 2 Abstract
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Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 68, No. 20, Oct. 21, 1971, 678-683 6  
Dainton (Barry) What Matters (and Other Matters) 1 More Dainton (Barry) - Self: Philosophy In Transit, Chapter 7 30  
Dancy (Jonathan) Parfit and Indirectly Self-Defeating Theories 4 More Dancy - Reading Parfit, 1997, Chapter 1 23  
Dancy (Jonathan) Reading Parfit: Preface 1 Abstract
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Dancy - Reading Parfit, 1997, Preface 2 Yes
Darwall (Stephen) Morality, Blame, And Internal Reasons 2 More Singer (Peter), Ed. - Does Anything Really Matter? Essays on Parfit on Objectivity, 2017, Chapter 12 20  
de Lazari-Radek (Katarzyna) & Singer (Peter) Parfit on Objectivity and 'The Profoundest Problem in Ethics' 2 More Singer (Peter), Ed. - Does Anything Really Matter? Essays on Parfit on Objectivity, 2017, Chapter 13 18  
Doore (G.L.) Mackie on Personal Identity 3 Abstract
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Mind, 1982, 593-598 6  
Edmonds (David) Obituary: Derek Parfit 1 Abstract
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The Times, 4th January 2017 4 Yes
Edmonds (David) Parfit: A Philosopher and His Mission to Save Morality 1 Abstract
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Edmonds (David) - Parfit: A Philosopher and His Mission to Save Morality 408 3%
Edmonds (David) Reason and romance: The world’s most cerebral marriage 1 Abstract
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Prospect Magazine, 17th July 2014 10 Yes
Ehring (Douglas) Survival and Trivial Facts 1 Abstract
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Analysis, vol. 47, 1987, pp. 50-54 4 17%
Fenwick (Cody) Derek Parfit, Renowned Philosopher of Ethics, Mind and Metaphysics, Dies at 74 1 Abstract
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Patch, 3rd January 2017 6 Yes
Fields (Lloyd) Parfit On Personal Identity And Desert 1 Abstract
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Philosophical Quarterly, 1987, Vol. 37 Issue 149, p432-441, 10p; 10 11%
Forcehimes (Andrew T.) On L. W. Sumner’s 'Normative Ethics and Metaethics' 3 Abstract
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Ethics , Vol. 125, No. 4 (July 2015), pp. 1142-1144 3  
Frederick (Shane) Time Preference & Personal Identity 1 Abstract
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Personal Page, Yale University Website; Time and Decision, 2003 22 11%
Gale (Richard) Parfit's Arguments against Partially Relativised Theories of Rationality 3 More Analysis 47, 1987, pp. 230-236 6  
Garrett (Brian) Parfit and 'What Matters' 1 Abstract
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Garrett - Personal Identity and Self-consciousness, 1998, Chapter 6 12 Yes
Garrett (Brian) Persons and Values 3 Abstract
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Philosophical Quarterly, 1992, Vol. 42 Issue 168, p337, 8p; 8  
Gauthier (David) Rationality and the Rational Aim 3 More Dancy - Reading Parfit, 1997, Chapter 2 18  
Gibbard (Allan) Parfit On Normative Concepts And Disagreement 2 More Singer (Peter), Ed. - Does Anything Really Matter? Essays on Parfit on Objectivity, 2017, Chapter 3 20  
Gillett (Grant) Reasoning About Persons 2 Abstract
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Peacocke & Gillett - Persons and Personality: A Contemporary Inquiry, 1987, Chapter 5a 13  
Glannon (Walter) Indentity, Prudential Concern, and Extended Lives 4 Abstract
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Bioethics, 16.3, June 2002, p266, 18p 18  
Grimes (William) Derek Parfit, Philosopher Who Explored Identity and Moral Choice, Dies at 74 1 Abstract
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New York Times, 6th January 1998 2 Yes
Herman (Barbara) A Mismatch of Methods 2 Abstract
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Parfit (Derek) - On What Matters: Volume Two (The Berkeley Tanner Lectures) 33  
Hershenov (David) Personal Identity 1 Abstract
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Continuum Companion to Metaphysics, ed. Bob Barnard and Neil Manson (Continuum, 2012), 198-222 38 3%
Hershenov (David) & Koch-Hershenov (Rose J.) Personal identity and Purgatory 1 Abstract
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Religious Studies, Volume 42, Issue 04, December 2006, pp 439-451 13 8%
Hodgkin (Adam) Derek Parfit, typesetting and marmalade 1 Abstract
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Adam Hodgkin's Blog, 2nd January 2017 2 Yes
Holtug (Nils) Person-Affecting Moralities 2 Abstract
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Ryberg (Jesper) & Tännsjö (Torbjörn), Eds. - The Repugnant Conclusion: Essays on Population Ethics, pp. 129-162 34  
Hooker (Brad) Parfit's Arguments for the Present-Aim Theory 3 Abstract
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Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 70, No. 1; March 1992 14  
Huddleston (Andrew) Nietzsche and the Hope of Normative Convergence 5 More Singer (Peter), Ed. - Does Anything Really Matter? Essays on Parfit on Objectivity, 2017, Chapter 8 26  
Jackson (Frank) In Defence of Reductionism in Ethics 2 More Singer (Peter), Ed. - Does Anything Really Matter? Essays on Parfit on Objectivity, 2017, Chapter 9 18  
Jackson (Frank) Which Effects? 4 More Dancy - Reading Parfit, 1997, Chapter 3 12  
Johansson (Jens) Parfit on fission 1 Abstract
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Philosophical Studies: August 2010, Vol. 150, No. 1, pp. 21-35 15 17%
Johnston (Mark) Human Concerns without Superlative Selves 1 More Dancy - Reading Parfit, 1997, Chapter 8 32  
Johnston (Mark) Reasons and Reductionism 1 Abstract
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Philosophical Review, July 1992; 101(3): 589-618 29 8%
Kind (Amy) The Metaphysics of Personal Identity and Our Special Concern for the Future 3 Abstract
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Metaphilosophy, 35, Number 4, July 2004, pp. 536-553(18). 18  
Korsgaard (Christine) Personal Identity and the Unity of Agency: A Kantian Response to Parfit 1 Abstract
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Philosophy & Public Affairs, Vol. 18, No. 2 (Spring, 1989), pp. 101-132 31 33%
Korsgaard (Christine) Personal Identity and the Unity of Agency: A Kantian Response to Parfit 1 Abstract
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Korsgaard - Creating the Kingdom of Ends, Chapter 13 36  
Lewis (Delmas) Persons, Morality, and Tenselessness 4 More Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol. 47, No. 2, Dec., 1986, pp. 305-309 5  
Luper (Steven) Mortal Harm 1 Abstract
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Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 57, No. 227 (Apr., 2007), pp. 239-251 13 17%
Luper (Steven) Past Desires and the Dead 1 Abstract
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Philosophical Studies; Dec. 2005, Vol. 126 Issue 3, p331-345, 15p 15 17%
MacFarquhar (Larissa) How to be Good 1 Abstract
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The New Yorker, 29th August 2011 24 Yes
Madell (Geoffrey) Derek Parfit and Greta Garbo 3 More Analysis, Vol. 45, No. 2 (Mar., 1985), pp. 105-109 5  
Margolis (Joseph) Review of Derek Parfit's 'Reasons and Persons' 3 More Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 47.2 Dec 1986, pp. 311-327 17  
Markovits (Julia) Acting for the Right Reasons 3 Abstract
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The Philosophical Review, Vol. 119, No. 2 (April 2010), pp. 201-242 41 9%
Martin (Raymond) & Barresi (John) Self-concern From Priestley To Hazlitt 4 Abstract
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British Journal for the History of Philosophy, Aug2003, Vol. 11 Issue 3, p499-507, 9p; 9  
Matthews (Dylan) The whole philosophy community is mourning Derek Parfit - Here's why he mattered 1 Abstract
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Vox, 3rd January 2017 6 Yes
McCall (Catherine) Parfit's Theory of Personal Identity 2 Abstract
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McCall - Concepts of Person: An Analysis of Concepts of Person, Self and Human Being, 1990 - Chapter 13 17  
McDowell (John) Reductionism and the First Person 1 Abstract
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Dancy - Reading Parfit, 1997, Chapter 11 21 Yes
McMahan (Jeff) Obituary of Derek Parfit 1 Abstract
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Academia.edu: "A version of this obituary will be published in Philosophy Now" 4 Yes
Merricks (Trenton) Fission and Personal Identity Over Time 2 Abstract
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Philosophical Studies 88, Number 2, November 1997, pp. 163-186(24). 24  
Merricks (Trenton) Review of Jonathan Dancy's 'Reading Parfit' 3 Abstract
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Philosophical Review 108.3, July 1999, pp. 422-425 4  
Mulgan (Tim) Two Parfit Puzzles 2 Abstract
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Ryberg (Jesper) & Tännsjö (Torbjörn), Eds. - The Repugnant Conclusion: Essays on Population Ethics, 2004, pp. 23-44 22  
Mulhall (Stephen), LRB Non-Identity Crisis 1 Abstract
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London Review of Books, Vol. 45 No. 11 · 1 June 2023 10 Yes
Munthe (Christian) Remembering Derek Parfit 1 Abstract
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Philosophical Comment, 5th January 2017 2 Yes
Oaklander (L. Nathan) Parfit, Circularity, and the Unity of Consciousness 3 Abstract
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Mind, Vol. 96, No. 384, Oct., 1987, pp. 525-529 5  
O'Grady (Jane) Derek Parfit obituary 1 Abstract
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The Guardian, 12th January 2017 2 Yes
Olson (Eric) Parfit’s Metaphysics and What Matters in Survival 1 Abstract
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Argumenta 5, 1 (2019): 21-39 19 11%
Olson (Eric) Review of Dancy's 'Reading Parfit' 1 More Philosophical Books; Oct1998, Vol. 39 Issue 4, p252-4 3  
Parfit (Derek) A reply to Sterba 2 Abstract
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Philosophy & Public Affairs, vol. 16, no. 2 (Spring, 1987), pp. 193-194 2  
Parfit (Derek) A Response (to Gillett - Reasoning About Persons) 2 Abstract
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Peacocke & Gillett - Persons and Personality: A Contemporary Inquiry, 1987, Chapter 5b 11  
Parfit (Derek) Acts and outcomes: a reply to Boonin-Vail 2 Abstract
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Philosophy & Public Affairs, vol. 25, no. 2 (Fall, 1996), pp. 308-317 10 11%
Parfit (Derek) An attack on the social discount rate 2 Abstract
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Philosophy & Public Policy Quarterly, vol. 1, no. 1 (1980), pp. 8-11 4 17%
Parfit (Derek) An Interview with Derek Parfit 2 Abstract
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Cogito, vol. 9, no. 2 (August, 1995), pp. 115-125 11 11%
Parfit (Derek) Another defence of the priority view 2 Abstract
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Utilitas, vol. 24, no. 3 (September, 2012), pp. 399-440 42 3%
Parfit (Derek) Appendix (to Reasons and Persons) - Non-Identity Appendices 3 Abstract
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Parfit - Reasons and Persons, Appendices A-C, F-J 36 Yes
Parfit (Derek) Bombs and coconuts, or rational irrationality 2 Abstract
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Christopher W. Morris & Arthur Ripstein (eds.) Practical rationality and preference: essays for David Gauthier, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001 17 7%
Parfit (Derek) Can we avoid the repugnant conclusion? 2 Abstract
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Theoria, vol. 82, no. 2 (May, 2016), pp. 110-127 18 7%
Parfit (Derek) Climbing the Mountain 4 Abstract
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Parfit - Climbing the Mountain 310  
Parfit (Derek) Comments 2 Abstract
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Ethics, 96 (July 1986) 41 3%
Parfit (Derek) Concluding Chapter (to Reasons and Persons) 3 More Parfit - Reasons and Persons 14 Yes
Parfit (Derek) Conclusions (to Part 1: Self-Defeating Theories) 3 More Parfit - Reasons and Persons, January 1986, pp. 111-115(5). 6 Yes
Parfit (Derek) Correspondence - 1 2 Abstract
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Philosophy & Public Affairs, vol. 10, no. 2 (Spring, 1981), pp. 180-181 2  
Parfit (Derek) Different Attitudes To Time 3 Abstract
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Parfit - Reasons and Persons, January 1986, pp. 149-187(39). 38 Yes
Parfit (Derek) Divided Minds and the Nature of Persons 1 Abstract
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Blakemore & Greenfield - Mindwaves 10 22%
Parfit (Derek) Equality and priority 2 Abstract
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Ratio, vol. 10, no. 3 (December, 1997), pp. 202-221 20 11%
Parfit (Derek) Equality or priority? 2 Abstract
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The Lindley Lecture: University of Kansas, 1991 44 6%
Parfit (Derek) Experiences, subjects, and conceptual schemes 2 Abstract
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Philosophical Topics, vol. 26, nos. 1-2 (Spring/Fall, 1999), pp. 217-270 54 20%
Parfit (Derek) Five Mistakes in Moral Mathematics 3 Abstract
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Parfit - Reasons and Persons, January 1986, pp. 67-87(21). 20 Yes
Parfit (Derek) Future Generations: Further Problems 2 Abstract
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Philosophy & Public Affairs, vol. 11, no. 2 (Spring, 1982), pp. 113-172 60 4%
Parfit (Derek) Future people, the non-identity problem, and person-affecting principles 2 Abstract
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Philosophy & public affairs, vol. 45, no. 2 (Spring, 2017), pp. 118-157 40 6%
Parfit (Derek) How We Are Not What We Believe 1 Abstract
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Parfit - Reasons and Persons, January 1986, pp. 219-245(27). 26 Yes
Parfit (Derek) Innumerate ethics 2 Abstract
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Philosophy & Public Affairs, vol. 7, no. 4 (Summer, 1978), pp. 285-301 17 13%
Parfit (Derek) Is Common-Sense Morality Self-Defeating? 4 Abstract
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Scheffler - Consequentialism and its Critics 14  
Parfit (Derek) Is personal identity what matters? 2 Abstract
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The Ammonius Foundation, December 31, 2007 87 3%
Parfit (Derek) Isaiah Berlin 2 Abstract
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Times Literary Supplement (July 19, 1991), p. 13 1 Yes
Parfit (Derek) Justifiability to Each Person 2 Abstract
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Ratio, vol. 16, no. 4 (December, 2003), pp. 368-390 23 10%
Parfit (Derek) Kant’s arguments for his formula of universal law 2 Abstract
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Christine Sypnowich (ed.) The egalitarian conscience: essays in honour of G. A. Cohen, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006, pp. 56-69 14 17%
Parfit (Derek) Later selves and moral principles 2 Abstract
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Alan Montefiore (ed.) Philosophy and personal relations: an Anglo-French study, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1973, pp. 137-169 33 11%
Parfit (Derek) Lewis, Perry, and What Matters 1 Abstract
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Rorty (Amelie) - The Identities of Persons, 1976 18 Yes
Parfit (Derek) Nagel's Brain 1 Abstract
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Parfit - Reasons and Persons, Appendix D 9 Yes
Parfit (Derek) Normativity 2 Abstract
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Russ Shafer-Landau (ed.) Oxford studies in metaethics, vol. 1, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2006, pp. 325-380 56 7%
Parfit (Derek) On 'The Importance of Self-Identity' 1 Abstract
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Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 68, No. 20, Oct. 21, 1971, 683-690 8 11%
Parfit (Derek) On What Matters: Volume One - Appendices & Notes 1 Abstract
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Parfit (Derek) - On What Matters: Volume One (The Berkeley Tanner Lectures) 140  
Parfit (Derek) On What Matters: Volume One - Part 1: Reasons 1 Abstract
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Parfit (Derek) - On What Matters: Volume One (The Berkeley Tanner Lectures) 146 5%
Parfit (Derek) On What Matters: Volume One - Part 2: Principles 1 Abstract
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Parfit (Derek) - On What Matters: Volume One (The Berkeley Tanner Lectures) 98 7%
Parfit (Derek) On What Matters: Volume One - Part 3: Theories 1 Abstract
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Parfit (Derek) - On What Matters: Volume One (The Berkeley Tanner Lectures) 145 5%
Parfit (Derek) On What Matters: Volume One - Preface & Summary 1 More Parfit (Derek) - On What Matters: Volume One (The Berkeley Tanner Lectures) 44 42%
Parfit (Derek) On What Matters: Volume Three 1 Abstract
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Parfit (Derek) - On What Matters: Volume Three 488 2%
Parfit (Derek) On What Matters: Volume Two - Appendices & Notes 1 Abstract
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Parfit (Derek) - On What Matters: Volume Two (The Berkeley Tanner Lectures) 100  
Parfit (Derek) On What Matters: Volume Two - Part 5: Responses to Commentaries 1 Abstract
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Parfit (Derek) - On What Matters: Volume Two (The Berkeley Tanner Lectures) 120 6%
Parfit (Derek) On What Matters: Volume Two - Part 6: Normativity 1 Abstract
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Parfit (Derek) - On What Matters: Volume Two (The Berkeley Tanner Lectures) 358 2%
Parfit (Derek) On What Matters: Volume Two - Preface & Summary 1 More Parfit (Derek) - On What Matters: Volume Two (The Berkeley Tanner Lectures) 32 28%
Parfit (Derek) Overpopulation and the Quality of Life 2 Abstract
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Ryberg (Jesper) & Tännsjö (Torbjörn), Eds. - The Repugnant Conclusion: Essays on Population Ethics, 2004, pp. 7-22 18 7%
Parfit (Derek) Paul Seabright: pluralism and the standard of living 2 Abstract
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Martha Nussbaum & Amartya Sen (eds.) The quality of life, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993, pp. 410-417 8 22%
Parfit (Derek) Personal and omnipersonal duties 2 Abstract
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The Harvard Review of Philosophy, vol. 23 (2016), pp. 1-15 15 17%
Parfit (Derek) Personal Identity 1 Abstract
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Perry - Personal Identity 28 Yes
Parfit (Derek) Personal Identity and Morality 1 Abstract
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Parfit - Reasons and Persons, January 1986, pp. 321-349(29). 30 Yes
Parfit (Derek) Personal Identity and Rationality 1 Abstract
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Parfit - Reasons and Persons, January 1986, pp. 307-321(15). 14 Yes
Parfit (Derek) Personal Identity and Rationality 3 Abstract
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Synthese, Vol. 53, No. 2, Matters of the Mind (Nov., 1982), pp. 227-241 15  
Parfit (Derek) Persons, Bodies, and Human Beings 1 Abstract
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Sider (Ted), Hawthorne (John) & Zimmerman (Dean), Eds. - Contemporary Debates in Metaphysics, 2008 32 7%
Parfit (Derek) Postscript 1 Abstract
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Ryberg (Jesper) & Tännsjö (Torbjörn), Eds. - The Repugnant Conclusion: Essays on Population Ethics, 2004, p. 257 1 Yes
Parfit (Derek) Practical Dilemmas 3 Abstract
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Parfit - Reasons and Persons, January 1986, pp. 53-67(15). 14 Yes
Parfit (Derek) Rationality and Reasons 2 Abstract
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Dan Egonsson, Jonas Josefsson, Björn Petterson & Toni Rønnow-Rasmussen (eds.) Exploring practical philosophy: from action to values, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001, pp. 17-39 23 14%
Parfit (Derek) Rationality and Time 1 Abstract
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Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, New Series, Vol. 84 (1983 - 1984), pp. 47-82 36 3%
Parfit (Derek) Reasons and Motivation 3 Abstract
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Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Volumes, Vol. 71 (1997), pp. 99-146 32  
Parfit (Derek) Reasons and Persons: Introduction 1 Abstract
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Parfit - Reasons and Persons, January 1986, pp. ix-x. 2 Yes
Parfit (Derek) Responses 2 Abstract
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Simon Kirchin (ed.) Reading Parfit: On What Matters, New York: Routledge, 2017, pp. 189-236 48 13%
Parfit (Derek) Rights, interests, and possible people 2 Abstract
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Samuel Gorovitz, Andrew L. Jameton, Ruth Macklin, John M. O’Connor, Eugene V. Perrin, Beverly Page St. Clair & Susan Sherwin (eds.) Moral problems in medicine, Prentice-Hall, 1976, pp. 369-375 7 33%
Parfit (Derek) Summary of Discussion 2 Abstract
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Synthese, Vol. 53, No. 2, Matters of the Mind (Nov., 1982), pp. 251-256 6 Yes
Parfit (Derek) The Absurd Conclusion 3 Abstract
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Parfit - Reasons and Persons, January 1986, pp. 391-419(29). 20 Yes
Parfit (Derek) The Appeal to Full Relativity 3 Abstract
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Parfit - Reasons and Persons, January 1986, pp. 137-149(13). 12 Yes
Parfit (Derek) The Best Objections To the Self-Interest Theory 3 Abstract
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Parfit - Reasons and Persons, January 1986, pp. 117-137(21). 20 Yes
Parfit (Derek) The Closest Continuer Schema 1 Abstract
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Parfit - Reasons and Persons, Appendix E 3 Yes
Parfit (Derek) The Indeterminacy Of Identity: A Reply To Brueckner 1 Abstract
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Philosophical Studies: An International Journal for Philosophy in the Analytic Tradition, Vol. 70, No. 1 (Apr., 1993), pp. 23-33 11 11%
Parfit (Derek) The Mere Addition Paradox 3 Abstract
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Parfit - Reasons and Persons, January 1986, pp. 419-543(125). 24 Yes
Parfit (Derek) The Non-Identity Problem 1 Abstract
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Parfit - Reasons and Persons, January 1986, pp. 351-381(31). 30 Yes
Parfit (Derek) The Puzzle of Reality: Why Does the Universe Exist? 2 Abstract
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Van Inwagen & Zimmerman - Metaphysics: The Big Questions, 1998 9 56%
Parfit (Derek) The Repugnant Conclusion 3 Abstract
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Parfit (Derek) Why does the universe exist? 2 Abstract
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Penelhum (Terence) The Importance of Self-Identity 3 Abstract
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Perrett (Roy W.) Personal Identity, Minimalism, And Madhyamaka 3 Abstract
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Pettit (Philip) & Smith (Michael) Parfit's P 4 More Dancy - Reading Parfit, 1997, Chapter 5 25  
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