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.
Edited by:
Iwao Hirose (McGill University),
Andrew Reisner (McGill University)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 240mm,
Width: 163mm,
Spine: 21mm
Weight: 554g
ISBN: 9780199684908
ISBN 10: 0199684901
Pages: 270
Publication Date: 26 March 2015
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Primary
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Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
John Broome: My long road to philosophy Part I: Weighing 1: Geoffrey Brennan: Liberty, preference satisfaction, and the case against categories 2: Doug MacLean: Challenges to the principle of personal good 3: Anandi Hattiangadi: Metasemantics out of economics? 4: Iwao Hirose: Separability 5: Hilary Greaves: The social disvalue of premature deaths 6: Krister Bykvist: Being and well-being 7: Marc Fleurbaey and Alex Voorhoeve: On the social and personal value of existence 8: Gustaf Arrhenius: The affirmative answer to the existential question and the person affecting restriction Part II: Reasoning 9: Luc Bovens and Wlodek Rabinowicz: The meaning of 'Darn it!' 10: Roger Crisp: Keeping things simple 11: Michael J. Zimmerman: Moral requirements 12: Jonathan Dancy: Reasons for Broome 13: Andrew Reisner: Normative conflicts and the structure of normativity 14: Lara Buchak and Philip Pettit: Reasons and rationality: the case of group agents 15: Stephen Kearns and Daniel Star: Weighing explanations Index
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 Asbjørn Steglich Petersen.
Reviews for Weighing and Reasoning: Themes from the Philosophy of John Broome
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. * Barry Maguire, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews Online *
