Hilary Greaves
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Hilary Greaves | |
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Born | 1978 (age 43–44) |
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Era | Contemporary philosophy |
Region | Western philosophy |
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Thesis | Spacetime Symmetries and the CPT Theorem (2008) |
Doctoral advisor | Frank Arntzenius |
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Website | users |
Hilary Greaves (born 1978) is a British philosopher, currently serving as professor of philosophy at the University of Oxford[1] and director of the Global Priorities Institute, a research centre for effective altruism at that university supported by the Open Philanthropy Project.[2][3]
Education[edit]
Greaves earned a BA in philosophy and physics from Oxford in 2003, and a PhD in philosophy from Rutgers in 2008.[4] Her doctoral thesis was titled Spacetime Symmetries and the CPT Theorem, and was supervised by Frank Arntzenius.[5] She has held appointments at Merton College and Somerville College and, since 2016, has been a professor of philosophy at Oxford.[4]
Research[edit]
Greaves' current work is on issues related to effective altruism, particularly in connection to global prioritisation. Her research interests include moral philosophy (including foundational issues in consequentialism, interpersonal aggregation, population ethics,[6] and moral uncertainty), formal epistemology, and the philosophy of physics,[7] particularly quantum mechanics.[8][9]
Selected publications[edit]
Books[edit]
- Greaves, Hilary, and Theron Pummer (eds). Effective Altruism: Philosophical Issues. Oxford University Press, 2019. ISBN 9780192578303
Peer-reviewed articles[edit]
- Greaves, Hilary. 2013. "Epistemic Decision Theory". Mind. 122, no. 488: 915-952.
- Greaves, Hilary, and David Wallace. 2006. "Justifying conditionalization: Conditionalization maximizes expected epistemic utility". Mind. 115, no. 459: 607-631.
- Greaves, Hilary. 2010. "Towards a Geometrical Understanding of the CPT Theorem". The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. 61, no. 1: 27–50. (Winner of the James T. Cushing Memorial Prize in History and Philosophy of Physics.[10])
References[edit]
- ^ "Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford". Retrieved 2019-09-10.
- ^ "Global Priorities Institute opens at Oxford". Retrieved 7 November 2019.
- ^ "People, Global Priorities Institute". Retrieved 2019-09-10.
- ^ a b "Curriculum vitae: Hilary Greaves" (PDF). Retrieved 2019-09-10.
- ^ Greaves, Hilary (2008). "Spacetime symmetries and the CPT theorem". RUcore. Rutgers University. doi:10.7282/T3CF9QFX. Retrieved November 2, 2019.
- ^ Riesz, Matthew (2015-03-28). "British Academy announces Rising Star Engagement winners". Times Higher Education. Retrieved 2019-11-02.
- ^ "Hilary Greaves' home page". Retrieved 2019-09-10.
- ^ Price, Huw (2012). "Decisions, Decisions, Decisions: Can Savage Salvage Everettian Probability?" (PDF). Many Worlds? Everett, Quantum Theory, & Reality. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199655502. OCLC 1103786900.
- ^ Dizadji-Bahmani, Foad (2015). "The Probability Problem in Everettian Quantum Mechanics Persists". British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. 66 (2): 257–283. doi:10.1093/bjps/axt035.
- ^ "Cushing Prize 2012 Winner". University of Notre Dame. Retrieved 2 November 2019.
External links[edit]
- Official website
- Hilary Greaves publications indexed by Google Scholar
- 1978 births
- Living people
- Alumni of the University of Oxford
- Rutgers University alumni
- 21st-century British philosophers
- Philosophers of science
- British ethicists
- Utilitarians
- British women philosophers
- People associated with effective altruism
- Fellows of Merton College, Oxford
- Fellows of Somerville College, Oxford