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Book SynopsisPrinciples and Persons contains twenty-one new essays addressed to themes drawn from the work of the late Derek Parfit. Topics include the nature of reasons and duties, the rationality of our attitudes to time, and the question of personal identity.
Table of ContentsJeff McMahan: Introduction 1 Personal Identity, Prudence, and Ethics 1: David O. Brink: Special Concern and Personal Identity 2: James Goodrich: Separating Persons 3: Tim Campbell: Personal Identity and Impersonal Ethics 4: Samuel Scheffler: Temporal Neutrality and the Bias toward the Future 5: Shelly Kagan: What is the Opposite of Well-Being? 6: Roger Crisp: Parfit on Love and Partiality 2 Normative Ethical Theory 7: Elizabeth Ashford: Individualist Utilitarianism and Converging Theories of Rights 8: Ingmar Persson: Parfit s Reorientation: From Revisionism to Conciliationism 9: Brad Hooker: Parfit s Final Arguments in Normative Ethics 10: Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek and Peter Singer: Parfit on Act Consequentialism 11: Liam Murphy: Nonlegislative Justification: Against Legalist Moral Theory 3 Reasons 12: Stephen Darwall: Doing Right by Wrong 13: John Broome: Giving Reasons and Given Reasons 4 Moral Mathematics: Aggregation, Overdetermination, and Harm 14: John Taurek: Reply to Parfit's "Innumerate Ethics" 15: Jeff McMahan: Defence Against Parfit's Torturers 16: Victor Tadros: Overdetermination and Obligation 17: Molly Gardner: What is Harming? 5 Egalitarianism and Prioritarianism 18: Nils Holtug: Prioritarianism, Risk, and the Gap Between Prudence and Morality 19: Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen: Relational Egalitarianism: Telic and Deontic 6 Supererogation 20: F. M. Kamm: Duties That Become Supererogatory or Forbidden? 21: Thomas Hurka and Evangeline Tsagarakis: More Supererogatory
