A cikin dukan aikinsa na ilimi, Parfit ya yi aiki a Jami'ar Oxford, inda ya kasance Babban Masanin Bincike na Emeritus a Kwalejin All Souls a lokacin mutuwarsa. Ya kuma kasance farfesa na falsafar a Jami'ar Harvard, Jami'ar New York, da Jami'ar Rutgers. An ba shi lambar yabo ta Rolf Schock ta 2014 "don gudunmawar da ya bayar game da ainihin mutum, game da al'ummomi masu zuwa, da kuma nazarin tsarin ka'idojin halin kirki. " Tambaya: A wace shekara ne ya lashe lambar yabo ta Rolf Schock?
Shekarar 2014