Preface
Summary
Part Seven: Irreducibly Normative Truths
37: How Things Might Matter
38: Normative and Natural Truths
39: Gibbard's Offer to Non-Naturalists
40: Railton's Defence of Soft Naturalism
41: Railton's Resolution of our Disagreements
42: Jackson's Non-Empirical Normative Truths
43: Schroeder's Conservative Reductive Thesis
Part Eight: Expressivist Truths
44: Quasi-Realist Expressivism
45: Gibbard's Resolution of our Disagreements
46: Another Triple Theory
Part Nine: Normative and Psychological Reasons
47: Expressivist Reasons
48: Subjectivist Reasons
49: Street's Meta-Ethical Constructivism
50: Morality, Blame, and Internal Reasons
51: Nietzsche's Mountain
52: What Matters and Universal Reasons
53: Act Consequentialism, Reasons, and Morality
Derek Parfit is one of the leading philosophers of our time. He is
a Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, Global
Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at New York University, and a
Fellow of the British Academy and of the American Academy of Arts
and Sciences. He is the author of Reasons and Persons (OUP, 1984),
one of the most influential books in philosophy of the last several
decades, and the acclaimed On What Matters: Volume
One and Volume Two.
The main point of this third volume is to engage with the views of
respected peers not won over by the argument as previously
presented. Parfit thus moves beyond exposition to engage with the
authors in the companion Singer-edited volume. He explains where he
has modified his own views in response to several of these authors,
rebuts their arguments at other points, and describes how further
modifications of the views in question might lead to a meeting of
the minds ... The arguments are vigorous. It isn't really a
surprise that normative disagreement and deep puzzles haven't
yielded to the hard thought and brilliant argument of Parfit and
his interlocutors
*Mark van Roojen, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews*
[Parfit's] arguments are rigourous, his writing lucid.
*Alex Dean, Prospect*
With all of the exchanges that take place in volume 3 and Singer's
collection, readers are likely to come away with the favorable
impression that philosophy is a highly collaborative enterprise.
... all of the thirty-six authors cited in the bibliography are
full professors, the majority of the still living of whom are
towering figures in the profession with associations to only a
small number of prestigious departments ... while our discipline
lost a philosophical giant when Parfit passed away shortly before
the publications of volume 3 and Singer's collection, moral
philosophy has a bright future ahead of it.
*Nicholas Laskowski, Ethics*
Deep, rich, and insightful.
*Farbod Akhlaghi, Journal of Moral Philosophy*
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