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Derek Parfit

1942 - 2017

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Derek Antony Parfit (; 11 December 1942 – 2 January 2017) 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.Parfit rose to prominence in 1971 with the publication of his first paper, "Personal Identity". His first book, Reasons and Persons (1984), has been described as the most significant work of moral philosophy since the 1800s. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Derek Parfit has received more than 817,535 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Derek Parfit is the 1,021st most popular philosopher (down from 1,002nd in 2019), the 799th most popular biography from China (down from 735th in 2019) and the 41st most popular Chinese Philosopher.

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  • 22

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  • 3.19

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  • 3.34

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Derek Parfit ranks 1,021 out of 1,081Before him are Allan Bloom, Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski, Northrop Frye, Hubert Dreyfus, Michael Oakeshott, and Philip of Opus. After him are Harald Høffding, G. A. Cohen, P. C. Chang, Paul Deussen, Eugenio Garin, and Ivan Merz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Derek Parfit ranks 391Before him are Tomasz Stańko, David Proval, Ilija Pantelić, Fernando Vallejo, Carl Douglas, and Billy Bremner. After him are Wojciech Pszoniak, János Farkas, Brandon deWilde, Rubén Salazar Gómez, Marcia Wallace, and Deirdre McCloskey. Among people deceased in 2017, Derek Parfit ranks 285Before him are Hrvoje Šarinić, Hubert Dreyfus, Tim Pigott-Smith, William Lombardy, Mikhail Nikolayevich Zadornov, and Ruth Pfau. After him are Oleg Vidov, Abdelmajid Dolmy, Prodigy, Roberto Ferreiro, Ulli Lommel, and Zoltan Sarosy.

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In China

Among people born in China, Derek Parfit ranks 799 out of 1,392Before him are Lisa Lu (1927), Song Renqiong (1909), Huang Ju (1938), Yan Lianke (1958), Yu Dafu (1896), and Lang Ping (1960). After him are Chang Wanquan (1949), Shi Zhengli (1964), Wen Yiduo (1899), P. C. Chang (1892), Zhang Jie (1937), and Bei Dao (1949).

Among PHILOSOPHERS In China

Among philosophers born in China, Derek Parfit ranks 41Before him are Wang Fuzhi (1619), Liu Yuxi (772), Feng Youlan (1895), Huang Zongxi (1610), Wei Yuan (1794), and Zhang Binglin (1868). After him are P. C. Chang (1892) and Liang Shuming (1893).