Peter Singer is Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics in the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University, a position that he now combines with the position of Laureate Professor at the University of Melbourne. His books include Animal Liberation, Practical Ethics, The Life You Can Save, The Point of View of the Universe (co-authored with Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek), and The Most Good You Can Do. An Australian, in 2012 he was made a Companion to the Order of Australia, his country's highest civilian honour.

This collection of essays, edited by Peter Singer, is a response by some moral philosophers to Parfits views about ethics, normativity, and meaning.

• Peter Singer: Preface 1: Larry Temkin: Has Parfit's Life Been Wasted? Some Reflections on Part Six of On What Matters 2: Peter Railton: Two Sides of the Meta-Ethical Mountain? 3: Allan Gibbard: Parfit on Normative Properties and Disagreement 4: Simon Blackburn: All Souls Night 5: Michael Smith: Parfit's Mistaken Metaethics 6: Sharon Street: Nothing 'Really' Matters, but That's Not What Matters 7: Richard Chappell: Knowing What Matters 8: Andrew Huddleston: Nietzsche and the Hope of Normative Convergence 9: Frank Jackson: In Defence Of Reductionism In Ethics 10: Mark Schroeder: What Matters about Metaethics? 11: Bruce Russell: A Defense of Moral Intuitionism 12: Stephen Darwall: Morality, Blame, and Internal Reasons 13: Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek and Peter Singer: Parfit on Objectivity and 'The Profoundest Problem of Ethics'

Peter Singer is Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics in the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University, a position that he now combines with the position of Laureate Professor at the University of Melbourne. His books include Animal Liberation, Practical Ethics, The Life You Can Save, The Point of View of the Universe (co-authored with Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek), and The Most Good You Can Do. An Australian, in 2012 he was made a Companion to the Order of Australia, his country's highest civilian honour.

This collection of essays, edited by Peter Singer, is a response by some moral philosophers to Parfits views about ethics, normativity, and meaning.

• Peter Singer: Preface 1: Larry Temkin: Has Parfit's Life Been Wasted? Some Reflections on Part Six of On What Matters 2: Peter Railton: Two Sides of the Meta-Ethical Mountain? 3: Allan Gibbard: Parfit on Normative Properties and Disagreement 4: Simon Blackburn: All Souls Night 5: Michael Smith: Parfit's Mistaken Metaethics 6: Sharon Street: Nothing 'Really' Matters, but That's Not What Matters 7: Richard Chappell: Knowing What Matters 8: Andrew Huddleston: Nietzsche and the Hope of Normative Convergence 9: Frank Jackson: In Defence Of Reductionism In Ethics 10: Mark Schroeder: What Matters about Metaethics? 11: Bruce Russell: A Defense of Moral Intuitionism 12: Stephen Darwall: Morality, Blame, and Internal Reasons 13: Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek and Peter Singer: Parfit on Objectivity and 'The Profoundest Problem of Ethics'

Peter Singer is Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics in the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University, a position that he now combines with the position of Laureate Professor at the University of Melbourne. His books include Animal Liberation, Practical Ethics, The Life You Can Save, The Point of View of the Universe (co-authored with Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek), and The Most Good You Can Do. An Australian, in 2012 he was made a Companion to the Order of Australia, his country's highest civilian honour.

This collection of essays, edited by Peter Singer, is a response by some moral philosophers to Parfits views about ethics, normativity, and meaning.

• Peter Singer: Preface 1: Larry Temkin: Has Parfit's Life Been Wasted? Some Reflections on Part Six of On What Matters 2: Peter Railton: Two Sides of the Meta-Ethical Mountain? 3: Allan Gibbard: Parfit on Normative Properties and Disagreement 4: Simon Blackburn: All Souls Night 5: Michael Smith: Parfit's Mistaken Metaethics 6: Sharon Street: Nothing 'Really' Matters, but That's Not What Matters 7: Richard Chappell: Knowing What Matters 8: Andrew Huddleston: Nietzsche and the Hope of Normative Convergence 9: Frank Jackson: In Defence Of Reductionism In Ethics 10: Mark Schroeder: What Matters about Metaethics? 11: Bruce Russell: A Defense of Moral Intuitionism 12: Stephen Darwall: Morality, Blame, and Internal Reasons 13: Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek and Peter Singer: Parfit on Objectivity and 'The Profoundest Problem of Ethics'