Reasons and Persons (Oxford Paperbacks)

Challenging, with several powerful arguments, some of our deepest beliefs about rationality, morality, and personal identity, Parfit claims that we have a false view about our own nature. It is often rational to act against our own best interests, he argues, and most of us have moral views that are self-defeating. We often act wrongly, although we know there will be no one with serious grounds for complaint, and when we consider future generations it is very hard to avoid conclusions that most of us will find very disturbing.

• On What Matters: Volume Three
• On What Matters (2 Volume Set)
• What We Owe to Each Other
• On What Matters: Volume One (The Berkeley Tanner Lectures)
• Conscious: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind
• The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
• A History of Western Philosophy
• Stubborn Attachments: A Vision for a Society of Free, Prosperous, and Responsible Individuals
• Consciousness Explained
• Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies