Weighing and Reasoning: Themes from the Philosophy of John Broome
Iwao Hirose and Andrew Reisner
Abstract
John Broome, White’s Professor of Moral Philosophy at Oxford University, has made major contributions to, and radical innovations in, contemporary moral philosophy. His research combines the formal method of economics with the philosophical analysis. Broome’s works stretch over formal axiology, decision theory, the philosophy of economics, population axiology, the value of life, the ethics of climate change, the nature of rationality, and practical and theoretical reasoning. In honour of his retirement from the White’s Professorship in Moral Philosophy, this book includes chapters by philosoph ... More
John Broome, White’s Professor of Moral Philosophy at Oxford University, has made major contributions to, and radical innovations in, contemporary moral philosophy. His research combines the formal method of economics with the philosophical analysis. Broome’s works stretch over formal axiology, decision theory, the philosophy of economics, population axiology, the value of life, the ethics of climate change, the nature of rationality, and practical and theoretical reasoning. In honour of his retirement from the White’s Professorship in Moral Philosophy, this book includes chapters by philosophers, who have been influenced by the work and thought of John Broome. It aims to offer a comprehensive evaluation of Broome’s wide-ranging and far-reaching philosophical works over the past 30 years. The volume comprises two parts. The first part is focused on Broome’s works on the theory of value, as exemplified by themes from Weighing Goods, Weighing Lives, Economics out of Economics, and Climate Matters. The second part is focused on his works on practical and theoretical reasoning that constitute a major emphasis of his work, which culminated in his Rationality through Reasoning. This volume also includes Broome’s note on his intellectual history to date.
Keywords:
value theory,
axiology,
reasoning,
population ethics,
philosophy of economics,
decision theory,
ethics,
reason,
normativity,
rationality
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2015 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780199684908 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: May 2015 |
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199684908.001.0001 |
