Weighing and Reasoning: Themes from the Philosophy of John Broome

by Iwao Hirose (Editor), Andrew Reisner (Editor)

Overview

John Broome has made major contributions to, and radical innovations in, contemporary moral philosophy. His research combines the formal method of economics with philosophical analysis. Broome's works stretch over formal axiology, decision theory, philosophy of economics, population axiology, the value of life, the ethics of climate change, the nature of rationality, and practical and theoretical reasoning.
Weighing and Reasoning brings together fifteen original essays from leading 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 thirty years. The volume comprises two parts. The first part is focused on Broome's work on the theory of value, as exemplified in his books Weighing Goods, Weighing Lives, Economics out of Economics, and Climate Matters. The second part is focused on his work on practical and theoretical reasoning, which culminated in his Rationality through Reasoning. This volume also includes a piece by Broome on his intellectual history to date.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199684908
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	05/26/2015
Pages:	270
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Iwao Hirose, McGill University,Andrew Reisner, McGill University

Iwao Hirose is an Associate Professor at the Philosophy Department and the School of Environment, McGill University. He is the co-author of Moral Aggregation, Egalitarianism, and The Ethics of Health Care Rationing with Greg Bognar, and co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Value Theory with Jonas Olson.



Andrew Reisner is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at McGill University. He received a DPhil in Philosophy from Oxford University and is co-editor of Reasons for Belief with Asbjorn Steglich Petersen.

Table of Contents

My long road to philosophy, John BroomePart I: Weighing1. Liberty, preference satisfaction, and the case against categories, Geoffrey Brennan2. Challenges to the principle of personal good, Doug MacLean3. Metasemantics out of economics?, Anandi Hattiangadi4. Separability, Iwao Hirose5. The social disvalue of premature deaths, Hilary Greaves6. Being and well-being, Krister Bykvist7. On the social and personal value of existence, Marc Fleurbaey and Alex Voorhoeve8. The affirmative answer to the existential question and the person affecting restriction, Gustaf ArrheniusPart II: Reasoning9. The meaning of 'Darn it!', Luc Bovens and Wlodek Rabinowicz10. Keeping things simple, Roger Crisp11. Moral requirements, Michael J. Zimmerman12. Reasons for Broome, Jonathan Dancy13. Normative conflicts and the structure of normativity, Andrew Reisner14. Reasons and rationality: the case of group agents, Lara Buchak and Philip Pettit15. Weighing explanations, Stephen Kearns and Daniel StarIndex

Editorial Reviews

"This volume honouring John Broome on his retirement from Oxford consists mainly of papers on two themes, written by an illustrious group of friends and former students. One theme is the relationship between individual good and overall good. The other theme is Broome's work on reasons, explanation, and ought. Among outliers, one chapter by renowned economist and philosopher Geoffrey Brennan makes an important point about interdisciplinary methodology. The contributions are rather varied in length and quality. Theorists with a serious interest in one or other of these themes would benefit from closely studying many of them...This is a fitting tribute" — Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews Online

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