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91The Public and Private Morality of Climate ChangeThe Tanner Lectures on Human Values 32 3-20. 2013.The Tanner Lectures are a collection of educational and scientific discussions relating to human values. Conducted by leaders in their fields, the lectures are presented at prestigious educational facilities around the world
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90Ethics Out of EconomicsCambridge University Press. 1999.Many economic problems are also ethical problems: should we value economic equality? how much should we care about preserving the environment? how should medical resources be divided between saving life and enhancing life? This book examines some of the practical issues that lie between economics and ethics, and shows how utility theory can contribute to ethics. John Broome's work has, unusually, combined sophisticated economic and philosophical expertise, and Ethics Out of Economics brings toge…Read more
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89The unity of reasoningIn Simon Robertson (ed.), Spheres of Reason, Oxford University Press. 2009.
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82Synchronic requirements and diachronic permissionsCanadian Journal of Philosophy 45 (5-6): 630-646. 2015.Reasoning is an activity of ours by which we come to satisfy synchronic requirements of rationality. However, reasoning itself is regulated by diachronic permissions of rationality. For each synchronic requirement there appears to be a corresponding diachronic permission, but the requirements and permissions are not related to each other in a systematic way. It is therefore a puzzle how reasoning according to permissions can systematically bring us to satisfy requirements
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78Jean E. Hampton (1954-1996). ObituaryEconomics and Philosophy 12 (2): 251-252. 1996.An obituary of Jean E. Hampton (1954-1996) by the editors of Economics and Philosophy. At the time of her premature death, Jean was serving as a member of the Editorial Board of the journal.
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73ReasonsIn R. Jay Wallace (ed.), Reason and Value: Themes From the Moral Philosophy of Joseph Raz, Oxford University Press. pp. 2004--28. 2004.
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72Should Social Preferences Be Consistent?Economics and Philosophy 5 (1): 7. 1989.Should social preferences conform to the principles of rationality we normally expect of individuals? Should they, for instance, conform to the consistency axioms of expected utility theory? This article considers one fragment of this question
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72Responses to Setiya, Hussain, and HortyPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 91 (1): 230-242. 2015.
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69Rationality versus NormativityAustralasian Philosophical Review 4 (4): 293-311. 2020.ABSTRACT Philosophers often do not make as sharp a distinction as they should between rationality and normativity. Partly this is because the word ‘reason’ can be used to refer to either, and this leads to a confusion over meanings. This paper starts by clarifying the meanings of ‘normativity’ and ‘rationality’. It argues that it is a conceptual truth that rationality supervenes on the mind. Then it considers substantive arguments that purport to show there is no real distinction between rationa…Read more
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68Have we reason to do as rationality requires? - a comment on RazJournal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 1 (Symposium): 1-10. 2005.No abstract
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63Hard Choices: Decision Making Under Unresolved Conflict, Isaac Levi. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986, xii + 250 pages (review)Economics and Philosophy 8 (1): 169. 1992.
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61Efficiency and future generationsEconomics and Philosophy 34 (2): 221-241. 2018.Abstract:Standard lessons from economics tell us that an externality creates inefficiency, and that this inefficiency can be removed by internalizing the externality. This papers considers how successfully these lessons can be extended to intergenerational externalities such as emissions of greenhouse gas. For intergenerational externalities, the standard lessons involve comparisons between states whose populations of people differ, either in their identities or their numbers. Common notions of …Read more
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57A mistaken argument against the expected utility theory of rationalityTheory and Decision 18 (3): 313-318. 1985.
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55Précis of Rationality Through ReasoningPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 91 (1): 200-203. 2015.
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54Deontology and EconomicsEconomics and Philosophy 8 (2): 269-282. 1992.In The Moral Dimension, Amitai Etzioni claims, as did Albert Hirschman in Morality and the Social Sciences, that people often act from moral motives, that economics needs to recognize this, and that it will be significantly changed by doing so. I agree, though I think the changes may be smaller than Etzioni believes – I shall be explaining why. But Etzioni goes further. He makes a specific claim about the sort of morality that motivates people: it is deontological. In this paper, I shall examine…Read more
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50RepliesEconomics and Philosophy 23 (1): 115-124. 2007.I am extremely grateful to the five commentators for readingmy book and offering such interesting thoughts in reaction. Shortage of space may make my responses seem brusque. But of course they are not meant to be.
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45V*—FairnessProceedings of the Aristotelian Society 91 (1): 87-102. 1991.John Broome; V*—Fairness, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Volume 91, Issue 1, 1 June 1991, Pages 87–102, https://doi.org/10.1093/aristotelian/91.1.87.
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43ResponsesPhilosophical Studies 173 (12): 3431-3448. 2016.This is a response to the comments of Boghossian, Cullity, Pettit and Southwood on my book Rationality Through Reasoning.
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43Normativity, Rationality and Reasoning: Selected EssaysOxford University Press. 2021.This volume is a selection of Broome's recent papers on normativity, rationality, and reasoning. It covers a variety of topics such as the meanings of 'ought', 'reason', and 'reasons'; the fundamental structure of normativity and the metaphysical priority of ought over reasons; the ownership - or agent-relativity - of oughts and reasons; the distinction between rationality and normativity; the notion of rational motivation; what characterizes the human activity of reasoning, and what is the role…Read more
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38Book Review:Rationality and Dynamic Choice: Foundational Explorations. Edward F. McClennen (review)Ethics 102 (3): 666-. 1992.
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John Broome
University Of Oxford
Australian National University
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University Of OxfordFaculty of PhilosophyProfessor
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Australian National UniversityProfessor (Part-time)
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Action |
Applied Ethics |
Meta-Ethics |
Normative Ethics |
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