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Fifteen original essays by leading philosophers offer a comprehensive evaluation of John Broome's major contributions to, and radical innovations in, contemporary moral philosophy, over the past thirty years. They focus in particular on the theory of value, and on practical and theoretical reasoning.
List of contents
- 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
About the author
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.
Summary
Fifteen original essays by leading philosophers offer a comprehensive evaluation of John Broome's major contributions to, and radical innovations in, contemporary moral philosophy, over the past thirty years. They focus in particular on the theory of value, and on practical and theoretical reasoning.
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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.
