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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/9827659 Title: Reasons and persons Author: Derek Parfit Publisher: Oxford [Oxfordshire] : Clarendon Press, 1984. ISBN/ISSN: 0198246153 9780198246152 019824908X 9780198249085 OCLC:9827659

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Reasons and persons

Author:	Derek Parfit
Publisher:	Oxford [Oxfordshire] : Clarendon Press, 1984.
Edition/Format:	Print book : EnglishView all editions and formats
Database:	WorldCat
Summary:	This book challenges, with several powerful arguments, some of our deepest beliefs about rationality, morality, and personal identity.
Rating:	based on 2 rating(s) 0 with reviews - Be the first.
Subjects	Ethics. Rationalism. Self. View all subjects
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Document Type:	Book
All Authors / Contributors:	Derek Parfit Find more information about:
ISBN:	0198246153 9780198246152 019824908X 9780198249085
OCLC Number:	9827659
Description:	xv, 543 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents:	Theories that are indirectly self-defeating -- Practical dilemmas -- Fice mistakes in moral mathematics -- Theories that are directly self-defeating -- Two possibilities -- The best objection to the self-intersest theory -- The appeal to full relativity -- Different attitudes to time -- Why we should reject S -- What we believe ourselves to be -- How we are not what we believe -- Why our identity is not what we believe -- Why our identity is not what matters -- What does matter -- Personal identity and rationality -- Personal identity and morality -- The non-identity problem -- The repugnant conclusion -- The absurd conclusion -- The mere addition paradox.
Responsibility:	by Derek Parfit.
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Very few works in the subject can compare with Parfit's in scope, fertility, imaginative resource, and cogency of reasoning. P.F. Strawson, The New York Review of Books

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