# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/derek-parfit
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:18:50.743Z

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description: "Derek Antony Parfit was a British philosopher who specialised in personal identity, rationality, and ethics. He is widely considered one of the most important and influential moral philosophers of the late 20th and early 21st centuries."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
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