Derek Parfit
British philosopher (1942-2017) · United Kingdom · On the map · Academics · Died at 74
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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Lived 1942 to 2017 · aged 74
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