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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 […] Read More
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. […] Read More
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 […] Read More
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 […] Read More
(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 […] Read More
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 […] Read More
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 […] Read More