Hilary Greaves
| Hilary Greaves | |
|---|---|
| Born | 29 September 1978 Cardiff, Wales, UK |
| 🎓 Alma mater | University of Oxford (BA) Rutgers University (PhD) |
| 💼 Occupation | |
| 🌐 Website | users.ox.ac.uk/~mert2255/ |
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Hilary Greaves is a philosopher at the University of Oxford[1][non-primary source needed] and Director of the Global Priorities Institute, an interdisciplinary research centre at that university with the mission "to conduct and promote world-class, foundational academic research on how most effectively to do good."[2][non-primary source needed]
Education
Greaves earned a BA in philosophy and physics from Oxford and a PhD in philosophy from Rutgers. Her doctoral thesis was "Spacetime symmetries and the CPT theorem." [3][non-primary source needed] She has held appointments at Merton College and Somerville College and, since 2016, has been a Professor of Philosophy at Oxford.[4][non-primary source needed]
Research
Greaves’ current work is on issues related to global prioritisation. Her research interests include moral philosophy (including foundational issues in consequentialism, interpersonal aggregation, population ethics, and moral uncertainty), formal epistemology, and the philosophy of physics.[5][non-primary source needed]
Global Priorities Institute
In 2018, Greaves became Director of the Global Priorities Institute (GPI), upon its establishment in January that year with a seed grant of GBP 2 million from the Open Philanthropy Project and a commitment of another GBP 2 million from two private philanthropists.[6][non-primary source needed] As of September 2019, GPI's research focuses on two main areas: long-termism and general issues in cause prioritisation. GPI's research within long-termism—defined as "the view that the primary determinant of the differences in value of the actions we take today is the effect of those actions on the very long-term future" [7][non-primary source needed] —includes the articulation and evaluation of the long-termist paradigm, the sign of the value of the continued existence of humanity, possible ways of mitigating global catastrophic risk, intergenerational governance, economic indices, moral uncertainty, and the relation between the short- and long-term impacts of an intervention. GPI's research in cause prioritisation, in turn, includes decision-theoretic and epistemological issues in cause prioritization, time discounting, diversification and hedging, distributions of cost-effectiveness, altruistic coordination, and individual vs. institutional decision-making.
Publications
Books
- Greaves, Hilary, and Theron Pummer (eds). Effective Altruism: Philosophical Issues. Oxford University Press, 2019. ISBN 9780192578303 Search this book on .
Peer-reviewed Articles
- Greaves, Hilary. 2019. "Climate Change and Optimum Population". The Monist. 102, no. 1: 42-65.
- Greaves, Hilary, and Harvey Lederman. 2018. "Extended Preferences and Interpersonal Comparisons of Well-Being". Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. 96, no. 3: 636-667.
- Greaves, Hilary, and Harvey Lederman. 2017. "Aggregating Extended Preferences". Philosophical Studies: An International Journal for Philosophy in the Analytic Tradition. 174, no. 5: 1163-1190.
- Greaves, Hilary, and Toby Ord. 2017. "Moral Uncertainty About Population Axiology". Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy. 12, no. 2: 135-167.
- Greaves, Hilary. 2017. "Population Axiology". Philosophy Compass. 12, no. 11: e12442.
- Greaves, Hilary. 2017. "A Reconsideration of the Harsanyi–Sen–Weymark Debate on Utilitarianism". Utilitas. 29, no. 2: 175-213.
- Greaves, Hilary. 2017. "Discounting For Public Policy: A Survey". Economics and Philosophy. 33, no. 3: 391-439.
- Greaves, Hilary. 2016. "XIV—Cluelessness". Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society. 116, no. 3: 311-339.
- Greaves, Hilary. 2016. "Being Right on the Money". The Philosophers' Magazine. no. 73: 71-76.
- Greaves, Hilary. 2015. "Antiprioritarianism". Utilitas. 27, no. 1: 1-42.
- Greaves, Hilary, and Teruji Thomas. 2014. "On the CPT Theorem". Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics. 45: 46-65.
- Greaves, Hilary, and David Wallace. 2013. "Empirical consequences of symmetries". The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. axt005.
- Greaves, Hilary. 2013. "Epistemic Decision Theory". Mind. 122, no. 488: 915-952.
- Greaves, Hilary. 2011. "In Search of (Spacetime) Structuralism". Philosophical Perspectives. 25, no. 1: 189-204.
- Greaves, Hilary. 2010. "Towards a Geometrical Understanding of the CPT Theorem". British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. 61, no. 1: 27-50.
- Greaves, Hilary. 2007. "Probability in the Everett Interpretation". Philosophy Compass. 2, no. 1: 109-128.
- Greaves, Hilary. 2007. "On the Everettian Epistemic Problem". Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B - Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics. 38, no. 1: 120-152.
- Greaves, Hilary, and David Wallace. 2006. "Justifying conditionalization: Conditionalization maximizes expected epistemic utility". Mind. 115, no. 459: 607-631.
References
- ↑ "Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford". Retrieved 2019-09-10.
- ↑ "People, Global Priorities Institute". Archived from the original on 2020-07-05. Retrieved 2019-09-10.
- ↑ [1] WorldCat item page
- ↑ "Curriculum vitae: Hilary Greaves" (PDF). Retrieved 2019-09-10.
- ↑ "Hilary Greaves' home page". Retrieved 2019-09-10.
- ↑ "Global Priorities Institute opens at Oxford". Retrieved 26 September 2019.
- ↑ Greaves, Hilary; MacAskill, William; O'Keeffe O'Donovan, Rossa; Philip, Trammell. "A research agenda for the Global Priorities Institute" (PDF). Retrieved 26 September 2019.
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