Derek Parfit in The New Yorker

I can't wait to read this. I had written to Derek last year (we have a sporadic correspondence). Now I see he had an amnesia attack just before I wrote him, which makes me wonder whether that was why he didn't write back...

Derek is one of the first heavy philosophers to work his way towards something like Buddhism, from the standpoint of utilitarianism, in his room at All Souls. It's remarkable really. The hostility to him in the mid eighties was immense. Students had to write essays refuting his “no person view.”