Reading Parfit

Jonathan Dancy is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Reading. He has published widely in the areas of ethics and epistemology, including (co-editor with Ernest Sosa) A Companion to Epistemology (Blackwell Publishers, 1992) and Moral Reasons (Blackwell Publishers, 1992).

1. Parfit and Indirectly Self-Defeating Theories: Jonathan Dancy (University of Reading). 2. Rationality and The Rational Aim: David Gauthier (University of Pittsburgh).
3. Which Effects?: Frank Jackson (Australian National University).
4. Parfit and the Time of Value: Michael Stocker (Syracuse University).
5. Parfit's P: Philip Pettit and Michael Smith (both Australian National University).
6. Rational Egoism and the Separateness of Persons: David O. Brink (University of California, San Diego).
7. Parfit on Identity: Sydney Shoemaker (Cornell University).
8. Human Concerns without Superlative Selves: Mark Johnston (Princeton University).
9. Has Kant refuted Parfit?: Simon Blackburn (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill).
10. Persons and Their Bodies: Judith Jarvis Thomson (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).
11. Reductionism and the First Person: John McDowell (University of Pittsburgh).
12. Should Ethics be More Impersonal?: Robert Merrihew Adams (Yale University).
13. Rethinking the Good: Moral Ideals and the Nature of Practical Reasoning: Larry Temkin (Rice University).

aeo Critiques Derek Parfita s outstanding work, Reasons and Persons. aeo Includes 11 newly--commissioned essays and 2 reprinted essays from leading scholars such as Frank Jackson, Michael Smith, Philip Pettit, Sidney Shoemaker, Judith Jarvis Thomson, John McDowell to name but a few.