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  • Derek Parfit
    Derek Parfit

    …writing his second major work, On What Matters, two volumes of which were published in 2011 and a third in 2017. The book was almost as well known to its academic audience before its publication as after: Parfit had circulated sections in draft form to hundreds of colleagues in order…

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    …writing his second major work, On What Matters, two volumes of which were published in 2011 and a third in 2017. The book was almost as well known to its academic audience before its publication as after: Parfit had circulated sections in draft form to hundreds of colleagues in order…

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