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...Parfit supervised Ord’s doctorate, Broome both Ord’s and MacAskill’s. Broome admits to being “surprised by how effective [EA] is. It’s impressive how attractive it has been to the young.”...
...While it might be supposed that replacing parts of the brain with a few chips wouldn’t have a dire impact, as the philosopher Derek Parfit observed it is unclear where to draw the line....
...(Parfit was also an enthusiastic early adopter of Photoshop.) The effect is often highly painterly....
...” – Remembering Derek Parfit. And if anyone hasn’t yet read the 2011 New Yorker profile… – A night at the Facebook Hotel....
...Derek Parfit very much believed in individual identity....
...As a staff writer for the New Yorker, she regularly writes profiles — of novelist Hilary Mantel, philosopher Derek Parfit, President Barack Obama, among others....
...One of the foremost contemporary articulators of the view, philosopher Derek Parfit, wrote that seeing ourselves as less clearly defined blurred the boundary between ourselves and others....
...The verray, parfit, gentil knyght was expected to bring home a unicorn or at the very least a panting hart and, though the historical record is muddy on the subject, it’s fair to assume he had enough social...
....” —– The philosopher Derek Parfit liked to try the following thought experiment on his students: imagine a scientist replaces your cells, one by one, with those of Greta Garbo....
...Parfit is an unashamed rationalist....
...Baggini follows philosopher Derek Parfit in describing the unity of the self as being achieved by a trick – the “ego trick” of his book’s title – namely, that of constructing a strong sense of connectedness...
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