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#321 — Reckoning with Parfit

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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The Importance of Psychology in Philosophy

Derek Parfitt was a member of the Pantheon of recent great philosophers. He divides people, but there are many like me who think he's definitely one of the greats in moral philosophy of the past hundred years. I always thought he was someone who must be on the autism spectrum to some degree. And so much of what is interesting about his thought could be born of that.

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