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Tag: Parfit’s Climbing the Mountain
Derek Parfit has recently circulated an argument against what he calls Non-Analytical Naturalism, which he understands as the thesis that normative truths are reducible to…
Something has always bothered me about Parfit’s treatment of Scanlon’s contractualism both in his "Justifiability to Each Other" and in the new Climbing the Mountain.…
The great discussion on the previous posting got so much off the topic that I thought I’d start another threat just on the interesting issue…
This is the last installment of our virtual reading group on Derek Parfit’s Climbing the Mountain. As Dave noted a couple of weeks ago, the…
(This marks the eleventh of twelve “meetings” of our virtual reading group on Derek Parfit’s Climbing the Mountain—see here for further details. Next week, we…
This marks the 10th of 11 virtual meetings on Derek Parfit’s Climbing the Mountain. First, though, a programming note: next week, we’ll be discussing chapter…
Sorry folks, but I forgot to mention in my post yesterday that Parfit has sent along yet another updated manuscript, with the final chapter bearing…