Beyond Parfit: Moral Maths and the Grammar of Preservation I'm currently focusing on section 3, which I feel carries the main thrust of my argument.

An outline of my approach to critique Parfit's moral maths
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An outline of my approach to critique Parfit's moral maths
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After another 'AI Detected' flag, I resorted to Gemini to lay it out. It produced an entire blog post. 🤖

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The Blind Spot of Moral Maths I am considering a new essay. That’s nothing new, but this was born from personal experience. Whilst reading Derek Parfit’s Reasons and Persons, I reached the chapters on moral arithmet…

Shifting from Parcifal to Parfit, I'm debating the value of moral maths.
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Parfit’s Teletransporter through a MEOW Lens A thought experiment by Derek Parfit, here’s the setup: ostensibly, a human is cloned, but they aren’t so much cloned as teleported to Mars, à la Star Trek – there, not here, particle b…

Parfit's Teletransporter Paradox? What happens to your 'self' if you are teleported to Mars?
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Some philosophers think like mathematicians: step by step, patient, precise. Spinoza starts with definitions and ends with God = Nature. Hegel shows conflict drives growth. Parfit finds identity less key than continuity. Sometimes only a long path reveals truth. #Spinoza #Hegel #Parfit #PWL

The 2025 Parfit Memorial Lecture given by Prof Jacob Nebel is now available on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FIx...
You may also be interested in the accompanying blog post by UOI student Paul Heller, where he unpacks some of the puzzles: blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/2025/07/2025...

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2025 Parfit Memorial Lecture The Procreation Asymmetry: Some Puzzles (working title)

2025 Parfit Memorial Lecture - join us next Monday (16th) for Prof Jacob Nebel's talk 'The Procreation Asymmetry: Some Puzzles'. Details and registration here: www.uehiro.ox.ac.uk/event/2025-p...
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An Affectionate but Clear-Eyed Close-Up of Parfit - Daily Nous Derek Parfit: His Life and Thought, a collection of essays by people who knew him, edited by Jeff McMahan, was published a couple of days ago. There is an online (gated) version at Oxford Academic. (I...

Derek Parfit: His Life and Thought, a collection of essays by people who knew him, edited by Jeff McMahan, was published a few days ago. dailynous.com/2025/05/21/a... #philosophy #Parfit #philsky

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『グッドプレイス』は英語学習より道徳哲学や規範倫理学の勉強に最適。作中人物が白板にアリストテレスらに並んでパーフィットの名前を挙げて講義しているし、エドモンズ『パーフィット』下154頁でもドラマが紹介されている。
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Derek Parfit and Your Future Self

The works of Derek Parfit (1942-2017) have had a profound influence on how philosophers understand rational decision-making, ethics, and personal identity. www.philosophytalk.org/shows/derek-... #Parfit #philosophy #philsky

デレク・パーフィット　哲学者が愛した哲学者　上　デイヴィッド・エドモンズ著 森村　進訳 森村　たまき訳 たった二つの著作で「最も偉大な道徳哲学者の一人」と評価されたパーフィットは、哲学界で愛された「フィロソファーズ・フィロソファー」だった。だが元来は外向的で超優秀な歴史学専攻の学生。そんな彼がなぜ道徳の最難問にとりつかれ、隠遁的な哲学者となったのか？　その足跡を出生から丹念にたどり、多角的に迫る決定版伝記。<br /><br /> ◎けいそうビブリオフィルで一部内容を公開中です<br /><a hr...

絶賛遅読中の『デレク・パーフィット　哲学者が愛した哲学者』上巻ほぼ読了。スタートレックが好きな人なら8章の｢遠隔転送機」から読み始めてもよい。転送前後の人格は同じ？ 脳移植を受けた人の人格は？ 道徳哲学の思考実験はワクワクする。パーフィットの人格変化も興味深い。
#パーフィット #道徳哲学 #Parfit #startrek
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The Best Intellectual Biographies The interplay of real life and the generation or dissemination of ideas serves as the fascinating focus of the intellectual biography. Here, Henry Oliver—author of Second Act, a compelling new book ab...

“My favourite moment is when #Parfit, during a talk, said how sad it is that #Bach died before finishing #TheArtoftheFugue. Then he cried—I think for 90 seconds—in the middle of this #philosophy conference” fivebooks.com/best-books/b... #books #biographies #intellectualbiographies

Day 7

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デイヴィッド・エドモンズ著、森村進・森村たまき訳 『デレク・パーフィット　哲学者が愛した哲学者』（上・下）勁草書房

待望の書が届いた！これからじっくり読みます。
デイヴィッド・エドモンズ著、森村進・森村たまき訳
『デレク・パーフィット　哲学者が愛した哲学者』（上・下）勁草書房
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From the bestselling coauthor of Wittgenstein's Poker, an entertaining and illuminating biography of a brilliant philosopher who tried to rescue morality from nihilism

Derek Parfit (1942–2017) is the most famous philosopher most people have never heard of. David Edmonds's #Parfit presents the first #biography of the intriguing, obsessive, & eccentric genius.

Now available in paperback. Enjoy a free sample: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb... #philsky

Kiddo's class is learning a song at school for Kindergarten graduation. Apparently there's a line about how there's "only one me", which (he says) is about keeping yourself safe. Then he explained, "Like for example how I have to be careful crossing the road, and also should not teleport." #Parfit 😂

Philosophy 247's David Edmonds continues his exploration of Oxford philosopher Derek Parfit's writings in this discussion of future people and the repugnant conclusion.
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