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Essays on Derek Parfit's On What Matters

Jussi Suikkanen (Edited by), J Suikkanen (Author), John Cottingham (Edited by)

9781405196987, Wiley

Paperback / softback, published 25 September 2009

168 pages
21.8 x 14 x 1 cm, 0.209 kg

“Derek Parfit’s On What Matters is, in many respects, a monumental piece of work.”  (Ethical Perspectives, 1 June 2013)

 

In Essays on Derek Parfit's On What Matters, seven leading moral philosophers offer critical evaluations of the central ideas presented in a greatly anticipated new work by world-renowned moral philosopher Derek Parfit.

  • Presents critical assessments of what promises to be one of the key moral philosophy texts of our time
  • Features essays by a team of leading philosophers including Princeton's Michael Smith, one of the world's leading meta-ethicists

  • Addresses Parfit's central thesis - that the main ethical theories can agree on what matters - as well as his defense of moral realism

Notes on Contributors.

1. Introduction (Jussi Suikkanen, University of Leeds).

2. Naturalism without Tears (James Lenman, University of Sheffield).

3. Can There Be a Kantian Consequentialism? (Seiriol Morgan, Bristol University).

4. The Kantian Argument for Consequentialism (Michael Otsuka, University College, London).

5. Climb Every Mountain? (Michael Ridge, University of Edinburgh).

6. Might Kantian Contractualism be the Supreme Principle of Morality? (Gideon Rosen, Princeton University).

7. Desires, Values, Reasons, and the Dualism of Practical Reason (Michael Smith, Princeton University).

8. Should Kantians Be Consequentialists? (Jacob Ross, University of Southern California).

Index.

Subject Areas: Society & culture: general [JF]
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