Reading Parfit: On What Matters

Book Overview

Reading Parfit: On What Matters is an outstanding overview and assessment of Parfit's monumental work by a team of international contributors, and includes replies by Parfit himself. It discusses central features of Parfit's book, including the structure and nature of reasons; the ideas underlying moral principles; the relationship between consequentialism, contractualism and Kantian deontology; and many important positions and arguments in current metaethics such as expressivism and moral realism.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415529506
• ISBN13: 9780415529501
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"