Derek Parfit
Latest update: November 14, 2009
On What Matters. Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming. [Google Scholar] [A note from Mr Parfit: "I would be grateful for any comments, however small, to be sent to me at derek.parfit at all-souls.oxford.ac.uk."]
'Persons, bodies, and human beings', in Dean Zimmerman, Theodore Sider & John Hawthorne (eds.) Contemporary debates in metaphysics, Oxford: Blackwell, 2008, pp. 177-208. [Google Scholar|WorldCat]
'Is personal identity what matters?', The Ammonius Foundation, December 31, 2007. [Google Scholar]
'Normativity', in Russ Shafer-Landau (ed.) Oxford studies in metaethics, vol. 1, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2006, pp. 325-380. [Google Scholar|WorldCat]
'Kant's arguments for his formula of universal law', in Christine Sypnowich (ed.) The egalitarian conscience : essays in honour of G. A. Cohen, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006, pp. 56-69. [Google Scholar|WorldCat]
'Postscript', in Jesper Ryberg & Torbjörn Tännsjö (eds.) The repugnant conclusion : essays on population ethics, Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2004, p. 257. [Google Scholar|WorldCat]
'Justifiability to each person', Ratio, vol. 16, no. 4 (December, 2003), pp. 368-390. [Google Scholar|WorldCat]
'What we could rationally will', The Tanner lectures on human values, 2002. [Google Scholar|WorldCat]
'Rationality and reasons', in Dan Egonsson, Jonas Josefsson, Björn Petterson & Toni Rønnow-Rasmussen (eds.) Exploring practical philosophy : from action to values, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001, pp. 17-39. [Google Scholar|WorldCat]
'Bombs and coconuts, or rational irrationality', in Christopher W. Morris & Arthur Ripstein (eds.) Practical rationality and preference : essays for David Gauthier, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. [Google Scholar|WorldCat]
'Experiences, subjects, and conceptual schemes', Philosophical topics, vol. 26, nos. 1-2 (Spring/Fall, 1999), pp. 217-270. [Google Scholar|WorldCat]
'Why anything? Why this?', London review of books, vol. 20, no. 2 (January 22, 1998), pp. 24-27; no. 3 (February 5, 1998), pp. 22-25. [Google Scholar|WorldCat]
'Equality and priority', Ratio, vol. 10, no. 3 (December, 1997), pp. 202-221. [Google Scholar|WorldCat]
'Reasons and motivation', Supplementary volume - Aristotelian Society, vol. 71 (1997), pp. 99-130. [Google Scholar|WorldCat]
'Acts and outcomes: a reply to Boonin-Vail', Philosophy & public affairs, vol. 25, no. 2 (Fall, 1996), pp. 308-317. [Google Scholar|WorldCat]
'The unimportance of identity', in Henry Harris (ed.) Identity : essays based on Herbert Spencer lectures given in the University of Oxford, New York: Clarendon Press, 1995, pp. 13-45. [Google Scholar|WorldCat]
'An Interview with Derek Parfit', Cogito, vol. 9, no. , 1995, pp. 115-125. [Google Scholar|WorldCat]
Equality or priority? Kansas: University of Kansas, 1995. [Google Scholar|WorldCat]
'The indeterminacy of identity: a reply to Brueckner', Philosophical studies, vol. 70, no. 1 (April, 1993), pp. 23-33. [Google Scholar|WorldCat]
'Paul Seabright: pluralism and the standard of living', in Martha Nussbaum & Amartya Sen (eds.) The quality of life, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993, pp. 410-417. [Google Scholar|WorldCat]
'Who do you think you are?', Times higher education supplement (December 11, 1992), pp. 19-20. [Google Scholar|WorldCat]
'The puzzle of reality: why does the universe exist?', Times literary supplement (July 3, 1992), pp. 3-5. [Google Scholar|WorldCat]
'Against the social discount rate', in Peter Laslett & James S. Fishkin (eds.) Justice between age groups and generations, Yale University Press: New Haven, 1992, pp. 144-161. (with Tyler Cowen) [Google Scholar|WorldCat]
'Isaiah Berlin', Times literary supplement (July 19, 1991), p. 13. [Google Scholar|WorldCat]
'Why does the universe exist?', The Harvard review of philosophy, vol. 1, no. 1 (Spring, 1991), pp. 2-5. [Google Scholar|WorldCat]
'On giving priority to the worse off', unpublished MS (ca. 1991). [Google Scholar|WorldCat]
'What we together do', unpublished MS (March 29, 1988), 33 pp. [Google Scholar|WorldCat]
'A reply to Sterba', Philosophy & public affairs, vol. 16, no. 2 (Spring, 1987), pp. 193-194. [Google Scholar|WorldCat]
'Divided minds and the nature of persons', in Colin Blakemore & Susan Greenfield (eds.) Mindwaves : thoughts on intelligence, identity and consciousness, Oxford: B. Blackwell, 1987, pp. 19-28. [Google Scholar|WorldCat]
'Overpopulation and the quality of life', in Peter Singer (ed.) Applied ethics, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986, pp. 145-164. [Google Scholar|WorldCat]
'Rationality and time', Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, vol. 84 (1984), pp. 47-82. [Google Scholar|WorldCat]
'Energy policy and the further future: the identity problem', in Douglas MacLean & Peter G. Brown (eds.) Energy and the future, Totowa, New Jersey: Rowman and Littlefield, 1983, pp. 166-179. [Google Scholar|WorldCat]
'Energy policy and the further future: the social discount rate', in Douglas MacLean & Peter G. Brown (eds.) Energy and the future, Totowa, New Jersey: Rowman and Littlefield, 1983, pp. 31-37. [Google Scholar|WorldCat]
'Summary of discussion', Synthese, vol. 53, no. 2 (November, 1982), pp. 251-256. (with Daniel Dennett, Donald Regan, Richard Rorty, Alasdair MacIntyre, Harry Frankfurt, Annette Baier & Jim Doyle) [Google Scholar|WorldCat]
'Personal identity and rationality', Synthese, vol. 53, no. 2 (November, 1982), pp. 227-241. [Google Scholar|WorldCat]
'Future generations: further problems', Philosophy & public affairs, vol. 11, no. 2 (Spring, 1982), pp. 113-172. [Google Scholar|WorldCat]
'Correspondence', Philosophy & public affairs, vol. 10, no. 2 (Spring, 1981), pp. 180-181. [Google Scholar|WorldCat]
'Is common-sense morality self-defeating?', The journal of philosophy, vol. 76, no. 10 (October, 1979), pp. 533-545. [Google Scholar|WorldCat]
'Correspondence', Philosophy & public affairs, vol. 8, no. 4 (Summer, 1979), pp. 395-397. [Google Scholar|WorldCat]
'Prudence, morality, and the prisoner's dilemma', Proceedings of the British Academy, vol. 65, (1979), pp. 539-564. [Google Scholar|WorldCat]
'Innumerate ethics', Philosophy & public affairs, vol. 7, no. 4 (Summer, 1978), pp. 285-301. [Google Scholar|WorldCat]
'Lewis, Perry, and what matters', in Amélie Rorty (ed.) The identities of persons, University of California Press: Berkeley, 1976, pp. 91-107. [Google Scholar|WorldCat]
'On doing the best for our children', in Michael D. Bayles (ed.) Ethics and population, Cambridge, Mass.: Schenkman Pub. Co., 1976, pp. 100-115. [Google Scholar|WorldCat]
'Rights, interests, and possible people', in Samuel Gorovitz, Andrew L. Jameton, Ruth Macklin, John M. O'Connor, Eugene V. Perrin, Beverly Page St. Clair & Susan Sherwin (eds.) Moral problems in medicine, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1976, pp. 369-375. [Google Scholar|WorldCat]
'Later selves and moral principles', in Alan Montefiore (ed.) Philosophy and personal relations : an Anglo-French study, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1973, pp. 137-169. [Google Scholar|WorldCat]
'On "The importance of self-identity"', The journal of philosophy, vol. 68, no. 20 (October, 1971), pp. 683-690. [Google Scholar|WorldCat]
'Personal identity', The Philosophical review, vol. 80, no. 1 (January, 1971), pp. 3-27. [Google Scholar|WorldCat]
'The Eton College chronicle', in Cheetham & Parfit, Eton microcosm, pp. 100-103. [Google Scholar|WorldCat]
'The fish', in Cheetham & Parfit, Eton microcosm, pp. 182-183. [Google Scholar|WorldCat]
Eton microcosm. London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1964. (edited with Anthony Cheetham) [Google Scholar|WorldCat]