| LC control no. | n 83190395 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Parfit, Derek |
| Associated country | Great Britain |
| Located | Oxford (England) |
| Birth date | 1942-12-11 |
| Death date | 2017-01-02 |
| Place of birth | Chengdu (China) |
| Place of death | London (England) |
| Field of activity | Ethics |
| Affiliation | All Souls College (University of Oxford) |
| Profession or occupation | Philosophers |
| Found in | His Reasons and persons, 1984: CIP t.p. (Derek Parfit) pub. info. sheet (research fellow, All Souls College, Oxford) Wikipedia, Jan 25, 2016 (Derek Parfit, born 11 December 1942, is a British philosopher who specialises in problems of personal identity, rationality, ethics, and the relations among them) New York times WWW site, viewed Jan. 5, 2017 (in obituary published Jan. 4: Derek Parfit; b. Derek Antony Parfit, Dec. 11, 1942, Chengdu, China, where his parents were doctors teaching preventive medicine at Christian missions; returned with them to England when he was still an infant and settled in Oxford; d. Monday [Jan. 2, 2017], London, aged 74; British philosopher whose writing on personal identity, the nature of reasons, and the objectivity of morality re-established ethics as a central concern for contemporary thinkers and set the terms for philosophic inquiry) |
| Associated language | eng |
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