{"product_id":"principles-and-persons-the-legacy-of-derek-parfit-9780192893994","title":"Principles and Persons: The Legacy of Derek Parfit","description":"Derek Parfit, who died in 2017, is widely believed to have been the most significant moral philosopher in well over a century. The twenty-one new essays in this book have all been inspired by his work. They address issues with which he was concerned in his writing, particularly in his seminal contribution to moral philosophy, \u003cem\u003eReasons and Persons\u003c\/em\u003e (OUP, 1984). Rather than simply commenting on his work, these essays attempt to make further progress with issues, both moral and prudential, that Parfit believed matter to our lives: issues concerned with how we ought to live, and what we have most reason to do. Topics covered in the book include the nature of personal identity, the basis of self-interested concern about the future, the rationality of our attitudes toward time, what it is for a life to go well or badly, how to evaluate moral theories, the nature of reasons for action, the aggregation of value, how benefits and harms should be distributed among people, and what degree of sacrifice morality requires us to make for the sake of others. These include some of the most important questions of normative ethical theory, as well as fundamental questions about the metaphysics of personhood and personal identity, and the ways in which the answers to these questions bear on what it is rational and moral for us to do.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJeff McMahan, \u003cem\u003eWhite's Professor of Moral Philosophy, University of Oxford\u003c\/em\u003e, Tim Campbell, \u003cem\u003eResearcher, Institute for Futures Studies, Stockholm\u003c\/em\u003e, James Goodrich, \u003cem\u003ePhD student in Philosophy, Rutgers University and University of Stockholm\u003c\/em\u003e, Ketan Ramakrishnan, \u003cem\u003eJD candidate at Yale Law School and a DPhil candidate, University of Oxford\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJeff McMahan is White's Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Oxford. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Ethics of Killing: Problems at the Margins of Life\u003c\/em\u003e (OUP, 2002) and \u003cem\u003eKilling in War\u003c\/em\u003e (OUP, 2009). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTim Campbell is a researcher at the Institute for Future Studies at the University of Stockholm. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJames Goodrich is a PhD student in philosophy at Rutgers and Stockholm University, working on moral and political philosophy. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKetan Ramakrishnan is a JD candidate at Yale Law School and a DPhil candidate in philosophy at the University of Oxford.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50444829491474,"sku":"9780192893994","price":90.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a1522b49-0825-4f11-89eb-373d76f822fe.jpg?v=1729690328","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/principles-and-persons-the-legacy-of-derek-parfit-9780192893994","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}