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News: September/October 2011

Derek Parfit asks: What Matters? • Philosophy college launches in London • Leiter accuses rival of ‘misconduct’ — News reports by Sue Roberts.

On What Matters

A long-anticipated book by one of the world’s leading moral philosophers has finally been published. Rough drafts of Professor Derek Parfit’s book On What Matters have been circulating among academics for almost a decade, and have proven so influential that in 2009 a whole issue of the journal Ratio was devoted to responses to the ideas contained within it. Parfit argues that three major approaches to ethics have consequences which in practice are very similar, and he also puts forward his own value-based ethical system. Now the book itself has appeared, in two hardback volumes from Oxford University Press. Expectations are high with some claiming that it will permanently re-shape the way philosophers see some aspects of ethics.

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