{"product_id":"does-anything-really-matter-essays-on-parfit-on-objectivity-hardcover-2","title":"Does Anything Really Matter?: Essays on Parfit on Objectivity - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePeter Singer\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the first two volumes of \u003cem\u003eOn What Matters\u003c\/em\u003e Derek Parfit argues that there are objective moral truths, and other normative truths about what we have reasons to believe, and to want, and to do. He thus challenges a view of the role of reason in action that can be traced back to David Hume, and is widely assumed to be correct, not only by philosophers but also by economists. In defending his view, Parfit argues that if there are no objective normative truths, nihilism follows, and nothing matters. He criticizes, often forcefully, many leading contemporary philosophers working on the nature of ethics, including Simon Blackburn, Stephen Darwall, Allen Gibbard, Frank Jackson, Peter Railton, Mark Schroeder, Michael Smith, and Sharon Street. \u003cem\u003eDoes Anything Really Matter?\u003c\/em\u003e gives these philosophers an opportunity to respond to Parfit's criticisms, and includes essays on Parfit's views by Richard Chappell, Andrew Huddleston, Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek and Peter Singer, Bruce Russell, and Larry Temkin. A third volume of \u003cem\u003eOn What Matters\u003c\/em\u003e, in which Parfit engages with his critics and breaks new ground in finding significant agreement between his own views and theirs, is appearing as a separate companion volume.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003ePeter Singer, \u003cem\u003ePrinceton University\/University of Melbourne\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePeter Singer is Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics in the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University, a position that he now combines with the position of Laureate Professor at the University of Melbourne. His books include \u003cem\u003eAnimal Liberation\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePractical Ethics\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Life You Can Save\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Point of View of the Universe\u003c\/em\u003e (co-authored with Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek), and \u003cem\u003eThe Most Good You Can Do\u003c\/em\u003e. An Australian, in 2012 he was made a Companion to the Order of Australia, his country's highest civilian honour. \u003cbr\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 318\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.3 x 9.3 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 19, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47347229163769,"sku":"9780199653836","price":109.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/emq9VBI4iI9780199653836_f72cafc2-f588-4229-90d1-6912e9297299.webp?v=1769763899","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/does-anything-really-matter-essays-on-parfit-on-objectivity-hardcover-2","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}