Derek Parfit (born 11 December 1942) is a British philosopher who specializes in problems of personal identity rationality ethics and the relations among them. His 1984 book Reasons and Persons (described by Alan Ryan in The Sunday Times as something close to a work of genius) has been very influential. His most recent book On What Matters (2011) has already been widely discussed having circulated in draft form for many years.
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