CSER - 10 June 2016 - Professor Hilary Greaves

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Description: Professor Hilary Greaves is an Associate Professor in Philosophy at Somerville College, University of Oxford. Her current research focuses on various issues in ethics while her particular interests include foundational issues in consequentialism ('global' and 'two-level' forms of consequentialism), the debate between consequentialists and contractualists, aggregation (utilitarianism, prioritarianism and egalitarianism), moral psychology and selective debunking arguments, population ethics, the interface between ethics and economics, the analogies between ethics and epistemology, and formal epistemology.

Professor Greaves currently directs the project "Population Ethics: Theory and Practice", based at the Future of Humanity Institute, and funded by The Leverhulme Trust.
 
Created: 2016-06-21 08:05
Collection: The Centre for the Study of Existential Risk
The Centre for the Study of Existential Risk
Publisher: University of Cambridge
Copyright: Glenn Jobson
Language: eng (English)
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Abstract: Professor Hilary Greaves is an Associate Professor in Philosophy at Somerville College, University of Oxford. Her current research focuses on various issues in ethics while her particular interests include foundational issues in consequentialism ('global' and 'two-level' forms of consequentialism), the debate between consequentialists and contractualists, aggregation (utilitarianism, prioritarianism and egalitarianism), moral psychology and selective debunking arguments, population ethics, the interface between ethics and economics, the analogies between ethics and epistemology, and formal epistemology.

Professor Greaves currently directs the project "Population Ethics: Theory and Practice", based at the Future of Humanity Institute, and funded by The Leverhulme Trust.
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