On What Matters is a major work in moral philosophy. It is the long-awaited follow-up to Derek Parfit's 1984 book Reasons and Persons, one of the landmarks of twentieth-century philosophy. In this first volume Parfit presents a powerful new treatment of reasons and rationality, and a critical examination of three systematic moral theories - Kant's ethics, contractualism, and consequentialism - leading to his own ground-breaking synthetic conclusion. Along the way he discusses a wide range of moral issues, such as the significance of consent, treating people as a means rather than an end, and free will and responsibility. On What Matters is already the most-discussed work in moral philosophy: its publication is likely to establish it as a modern classic which everyone working on moral philosophy will have to read, and which many others will turn to for stimulation and illumination.

德里克·帕菲特（DerekParfit）,牛津大学万灵学院高级研究员,纽约大学、哈佛大学、罗格斯大学客座教授,英国国家学术院、美国人文与科学院成员。他的另一部著作《理与人》（Reasons and Persons）是近几十年最有影响力的哲学著作之一。

阮航,男,湖北黄陂人,1971年10月生。涨江大学建筑学专业本科,中南财经政法大学伦理学硕士、博士,现为湖北大学哲学学院副教授,湖北大学高等人文研究院文化发展报告部主任。公开发表论文30余篇,专著1部,译著2部。主要研究方向：伦理学理论、儒家伦理、政治哲学。

葛四友,哲学博士,华东师范大学哲学系教授,主要研究领域为规范伦理学与近现代英美政治哲学,当前主要的研究兴趣在于重建一种新的后果主义分配正义理论,同时发展新的后果主义且为之作辩,著有《正义与运气》,译有《运气均等主义》（编译）、《合理性的本质》（合译）和《公共领域中的伦理学》（主译）。