The Mind’s Eye: The Photographs of Derek Parfit

The Mind’s Eye: The Photographs of Derek Parfit

narrative projects present The Mind’s Eye: The Photographs of Derek Parfit, an archive of images captured by one of the most unusual and influential philosophers of our time. This exhibition, the first ever of Parfit’s photographs, will examine his idiosyncratic method and practice, introducing a previously unpublished oeuvre that complicates the legacy of this century’s most original moral philosopher.

Parfit was also a prolific and sophisticated photographer, returning each year for decades to St. Petersburg and Venice to capture images of architecture, water, fog, and light. With a painterly sensibility and an uncommon feeling for color, Parfit’s photographs provide compelling new insights into his philosophical work, and reveal a sensitive and finely developed aesthetic neither published nor exhibited during his lifetime.

About the Artist

Derek Parfit (1942–2017) is regarded as one of the most influential philosophers of the modern era. His two books, Reasons and Persons (1984) and On What Matters (2011) have been called the most important contributions to ethics in over a century. He was a Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, and held teaching positions at Harvard, New York University, and Rutgers. In 2014 he was laureate of the Rolf Schock Prize in Logic, modern philosophy’s highest honor.

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