Derek Parfit
British philosopher
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Derek Antony Parfit FBA was a British philosopher who specialised in personal identity, rationality, and ethics. He is widely considered one of the most important and influential moral philosophers of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Wikipedia
Born: December 11, 1942, Chengdu, China
Died: January 1, 2017 (age 74 years), London, United Kingdom
Influenced by: Immanuel Kant, T. M. Scanlon, Henry Sidgwick, and more
Award: Rolf Schock Prizes (2014)
Parents: Norman Parfit and Jessie Parfit
Education: Balliol College, Oxford (BA); Columbia University; Harvard University
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