Essays on Derek Parfit's On What Matters

In Essays on Derek Parfit's On What Matters, seven leading moral philosophers offer critical evaluations of the central ideas presented in a greatly anticipated new work by world-renowned moral philosopher Derek Parfit.

• Presents critical assessments of what promises to be one of the key moral philosophy texts of our time

• Features essays by a team of leading philosophers including Princeton's Michael Smith, one of the world's leading meta-ethicists

• Addresses Parfit's central thesis - that the main ethical theories can agree on what matters - as well as his defense of moral realism

Keywords: philosophy, Derek Parfit, On What Matters, moral philosophy, Kant, Ethics, consequentialism, criticiscm, theory, moral realism. ,