Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p 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. Parfit has worked at Oxford for the whole of his academic career, and is an Emeritus Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. He is also a Visiting Professor of Philosophy at New York University, Harvard University, and Rutgers University, and was awarded the 2014 Rolf Schock Prize "for his groundbreaking contributions concerning personal identity, regard for future generations and analysis of the structure of moral theories." Parfit is also an experienced photographer and a retired poet. He is married to the philosopher Janet Radcliffe Richards.. }
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- Derek_Parfit abstract "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. Parfit has worked at Oxford for the whole of his academic career, and is an Emeritus Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. He is also a Visiting Professor of Philosophy at New York University, Harvard University, and Rutgers University, and was awarded the 2014 Rolf Schock Prize "for his groundbreaking contributions concerning personal identity, regard for future generations and analysis of the structure of moral theories." Parfit is also an experienced photographer and a retired poet. He is married to the philosopher Janet Radcliffe Richards.".