PHILOSOPHER

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". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Derek Parfit has received more than 897,211 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Derek Parfit is the 1,021st most popular philosopher, the 829th most popular biography from China (down from 796th in 2019) and the 42nd most popular Chinese Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Derek Parfit ranks 1,021 out of 1,267Before him are Stanisław Staszic, Zhang Binglin, Northrop Frye, Friedrich Paulsen, Tirumalai Krishnamacharya, and Daniel Bensaïd. After him are Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar, Hegesias of Magnesia, Caspar Bartholin the Elder, John Hick, Robert Spaemann, and Hermann Usener.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Derek Parfit ranks 343Before him are Ilija Pantelić, Arthur Brown, Fred Thompson, Ricardo Blázquez, Wojciech Pszoniak, and Jack DeJohnette. After him are Eddy Mitchell, Ichirō Ozawa, Marsha Mason, Leon Russell, Yvette Mimieux, and Eumir Deodato. Among people deceased in 2017, Derek Parfit ranks 256Before him are Tony Atkinson, Svend Asmussen, Ruth Pfau, Gösta Ekman, Marita Lindahl, and Ivan Dias. After him are Jacques Simon, Girija Devi, James Rosenquist, Richard Hatch, Leonid Bronevoy, and Giulio Angioni.

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In China

Among people born in China, Derek Parfit ranks 829 out of 1,610Before him are Cai Qi (1955), Qiao Shi (1924), Cui Hao (704), Jia Qinglin (1940), Hsing Yun (1927), and Qin Gang (1966). After him are Thubten Choekyi Nyima, 9th Panchen Lama (1883), Fujio Akatsuka (1935), Shi Pei Pu (1938), Taranatha (1575), James Soong (1942), and Liu Yifei (1987).

Among PHILOSOPHERS In China

Among philosophers born in China, Derek Parfit ranks 42Before him are Tan Sitong (1865), Tao Hongjing (456), Feng Youlan (1895), Huang Zongxi (1610), Wei Yuan (1794), and Zhang Binglin (1868). After him are P. C. Chang (1892), and Liang Shuming (1893).