This is the second volume of a major new work in moral philosophy. It starts with critiques of Derek Parfit's work by four eminent moral philosophers, and his responses. The largest part of the volume is a self-contained monograph on normativity. The final part comprises seven new essays on Kant, reasons, and why the universe exists.

• PART FOUR: COMMENTARIES


• HIKING THE RANGE


• HUMANITY AS AN END IN ITSELF


• A MISMATCH OF METHODS


• HOW I AM NOT A KANTIAN


• PART FIVE: RESPONSES


• ON HIKING THE RANGE


• ON HUMANITY AS AN END IN ITSELF


• ON A MISMATCH OF METHODS


• HOW THE NUMBERS COUNT


• SCANLONIAN CONTRACTUALISM


• THE TRIPLE THEORY


• PART SIX: NORMATIVITY


• ANALYTICAL NATURALISM AND SUBJECTIVISM


• NON-ANALYTICAL NATURALISM


• THE TRIVIALITY OBJECTION


• NATURALISM AND NIHILISM


• NON-COGNITIVISM AND QUASI-REALISM


• NORMATIVITY


• NORMATIVE TRUTHS


• METAPHYSICS


• EPISTEMOLOGY


• RATIONALISM


• AGREEMENT


• NIETZSCHE


• WHAT MATTERS MOST


• APPENDICES


• WHY ANYTHING? WHY THIS?


• THE FAIR WARNING VIEW


• SOME OF KANT'S ARGUMENTS FOR HIS FORMULA OF UNIVERSAL LAW


• KANT'S CLAIMS ABOUT THE GOOD


• AUTONOMY AND CATEGORICAL IMPERATIVES


• KANT'S MOTIVATIONAL ARGUMENT


• ON WHAT THERE IS


• Notes to Volume Two


• References


• Bibliography


• Index

Derek Parfit is one of the leading philosophers of our time. He is a Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, Global Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at New York University, and a Fellow of the British Academy and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is the author of Reasons and Persons (OUP, 1984), one of the most influential books in philosophy of the last several decades.