Jussi Suikkanen & John Cottingham 
Essays on Derek Parfit’s On What Matters [PDF ebook] 

In Essays on Derek Parfit’s On What Matters, seven leading
moral philosophers offer critical evaluations of the central ideas
presented in a greatly anticipated new work by world-renowned moral
philosopher Derek Parfit.

* Presents critical assessments of what promises to be one of the
key moral philosophy texts of our time

* Features essays by a team of leading philosophers including
Princeton’s Michael Smith, one of the world’s leading
meta-ethicists

* Addresses Parfit’s central thesis – that the main ethical
theories can agree on what matters – as well as his defense of
moral realism

Table of Content

Notes on Contributors.

1. Introduction (Jussi Suikkanen, University of
Leeds).

2. Naturalism without Tears (James Lenman, University of
Sheffield).

3. Can There Be a Kantian Consequentialism? (Seiriol Morgan,
Bristol University).

4. The Kantian Argument for Consequentialism (Michael Otsuka,
University College, London).

5. Climb Every Mountain? (Michael Ridge, University of
Edinburgh).

6. Might Kantian Contractualism be the Supreme Principle of
Morality? (Gideon Rosen, Princeton University).

7. Desires, Values, Reasons, and the Dualism of Practical Reason
(Michael Smith, Princeton University).

8. Should Kantians Be Consequentialists? (Jacob Ross,
University of Southern California).

Index.

About the author

John Cottingham is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the
University of Reading and an Honorary Fellow of St John’s College,
Oxford. He has written numerous books and articles on early-modern
philosophy, has published extensively in the field of moral
philosophy and philosophy of religion, and is Editor of
Ratio, the international journal of analytic
philosophy.

Jussi Suikkanen is a temporary lecturer in philosophy at the
University of Leeds. He recently received his Ph.D. from the
University of Reading. He has published numerous articles in
international philosophical journals on contractualism and
consequentialism, reasons and value, the nature of moral
properties, and moral psychology.