Iwao Hirose
Biographic Data
| ID | 4489666 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Iwao Hirose |
| GIVEN NAMES | Iwao |
| FAMILY NAME | Hirose |
| SIGNATURE | HIROSE I |
| AFFILIATIONS | McGill University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8279-956X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 9 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Timeslice Prioritarianism, Prudence, and Weak Pareto
Andrić and Herlitz (2022) object to Timeslice Prioritarianism on the basis that it violates two purportedly uncontroversial properties: prudence and Weak Pareto. We will claim that their objection does not undermine Timeslice Prioritarianism because the basis of their objection is just a straightforward implication of utilitarianism. To establish this argument, we will show that a timeslice view satisfies prudence and Weak Pareto if and only if i…
Minimally good life and the human right to health
In Global Health Impact: Extending Access to Essential Medicines , Nicole Hassoun argues that the concept of a minimally good life grounds the human right to health, which in turn implies the human right to access essential medicines in developing countries. This article argues that Hassoun's argument must be revised. If the temporal unit of a minimally good life is identified, her argument faces a substantive problem, which undermines an importa…
Pandemic preparedness and response: Beyond the Access to Covid-19 Tools Accelerator
Nationalism has trumped solidarity, resulting in unnecessary loss of life and inequitable access to vaccines and therapeutics. Existing intellectual property (IP) regimens, trade secrets and data rights, under which pharmaceutical firms operate, have also posed obstacles to increasing manufacturing capacity, and ensuring adequate supply, affordable pricing, and equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines and other health products in low-income and midd…
Ethics of Pandemics: An Introduction
Axiological Sufficientarianism
The axiological version of sufficientarianism contends that the disvalue associated with well-being below sufficiency is to be minimized, regardless of the aggregate value of well-being at and above sufficiency. This is called the sufficientarian ethos. This chapter offers the first axiological formula of the sufficientarian ethos, which reveals the following points. The disvalue of sub-sufficiency well-being is measured by a weighted sum of shor…
Population Axiology
The Oxford Handbook of Value Theory
Contributors Introduction to Value Theory: Iwao Hirose and Jonas Olson Part I: Foundations 1. Value and Normativity: Michael J. Zimmerman 2. Intrinsic and Extrinsic Value: Toni Ronnow-Rasmussen 3. Doubts about Intrinsic Value: Jonas Olson 4. Value and Desires: Graham Oddie 5. Value and Emotions: Christine Tappolet 6. Neutral and Relative Value: Garrett Cullity 7. Value and Time: Krister Bykvist 8. Monism and Pluralism about Value: Chris Heathwood…
Kantian Axiology and the Dualism of Practical Reason
General and Personal Good
Monism and Pluralism about Value
Value and Normativity
The Value of Existence
Can it be better or worse for a person to exist than not to exist at all? This old and challenging existential question has been raised anew in contemporary moral philosophy, mainly for two reasons. First, traditional “impersonal” ethical theories, such as utilitarianism, have counterintuitive implications in population ethics, for example, the repugnant conclusion. Second, it has seemed evident to many that an outcome can be better than another …
Neutral and Relative Value
This Handbook focuses on value theory as it pertains to ethics, broadly construed, and provides a comprehensive overview of contemporary debates pertaining not only to philosophy but also to other disciplines-most notably, political theory
Weighing and Reasoning: Themes from the Philosophy of John Broome
Cambridge Rawls Lexicon
John Rawls is widely regarded as one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century, and his work has permanently shaped the nature and terms of moral and political philosophy, deploying a robust and specialized vocabulary that reaches beyond philosophy to political science, economics, sociology, and law. This volume is a complete and accessible guide to Rawls' vocabulary, with over 200 alphabetical encyclopaedic entries written by…
Arrow, Kenneth J.
Kenneth J. Arrow is an American Nobel-laureate welfare economist (b. 1921). He is the founder of modern social choice theory, and his General Possibility Theorem inluenced Rawls's TJ. Arrow claims that there exists no collective decision-making rule that satisies four seemingly uncontroversial conditions that any democratic society should satisfy (Pareto, unrestricted domain, independence of irrelevant alternatives, and non-dictatorship). In Arro…
Egalitarianism
Some people are worse off than others. Does this fact give rise to moral concern? Egalitarianism claims that it does, for a wide array of reasons. It is one of the most important and hotly debated problems in moral and political philosophy, occupying a central place in the work of John Rawls, Thomas Nagel, G. A. Cohen and Derek Parfit. It also plays an important role in practical contexts such as the allocation of health care resources, the desig…
Moral Aggregation
Aggregation is one of the fundamental features of utilitarianism and other forms of axiological theories, permitting the trade-off of morally relevant factors between different individuals. It is also a feature that critics of utilitarianism condemn. Yet the basic features of aggregation are not understood properly. This book elucidates the theoretical structure and scope of interpersonal and intra-personal aggregation in ethics and defends a for…
Egalitarianism
Aggregation and the Separateness of Persons
Many critics of utilitarianism claim that we should reject interpersonal aggregation because aggregative principles do not take the separateness of persons seriously. In this article, I will reject this claim. I will first elucidate the theoretical structure of aggregation. I will then consider various interpretations of the notion of the separateness of persons and clarify what exactly those critics are trying to reject by appealing to the notio…
Reconsidering the Value of Equality
Some people believe that the equality of people's well-being makes an outcome better, other things being constant. Call this Telic Egalitarianism. In this paper I will propose a new interpretation of Telic Egalitarianism, and compare it with the interpretation that is proposed by Derek Parfit 1995 Parfit, Derek. 1995. Equality or Priority? University of Kansas: Lindley Lecture. Reprinted in Clayton and Williams [2000: 81–125] [Google Scholar] and…
Aggregation and Numbers
This article considers the reach of arguments for saving the greater number without interpersonal aggregation, and argues that interpersonal aggregation is useful to encompass the proper respect due to each separate person. I first give a precise definition of interpersonal aggregation, which many non-utilitarians try to avoid. Then, I show that consequentialism and Scanlon can justify the case for the greater number without interpersonal aggrega…
Aggregation and Numbers
This article considers the reach of arguments for saving the greater number without interpersonal aggregation, and argues that interpersonal aggregation is useful to encompass the proper respect due to each separate person. I first give a precise definition of interpersonal aggregation, which many non-utilitarians try to avoid. Then, I show that consequentialism and Scanlon can justify the case for the greater number without interpersonal aggrega…
The Value of Existence
Can it be better or worse for a person to exist than not to exist at all? This old and challenging existential question has been raised anew in contemporary moral philosophy, mainly for two reasons. First, traditional “impersonal” ethical theories, such as utilitarianism, have counterintuitive implications in population ethics, for example, the repugnant conclusion. Second, it has seemed evident to many that an outcome can be better than another …
Aggregation and the Separateness of Persons
Many critics of utilitarianism claim that we should reject interpersonal aggregation because aggregative principles do not take the separateness of persons seriously. In this article, I will reject this claim. I will first elucidate the theoretical structure of aggregation. I will then consider various interpretations of the notion of the separateness of persons and clarify what exactly those critics are trying to reject by appealing to the notio…
Neutral and Relative Value
This Handbook focuses on value theory as it pertains to ethics, broadly construed, and provides a comprehensive overview of contemporary debates pertaining not only to philosophy but also to other disciplines-most notably, political theory
Aggregation and Numbers
This article considers the reach of arguments for saving the greater number without interpersonal aggregation, and argues that interpersonal aggregation is useful to encompass the proper respect due to each separate person. I first give a precise definition of interpersonal aggregation, which many non-utilitarians try to avoid. Then, I show that consequentialism and Scanlon can justify the case for the greater number without interpersonal aggrega…
Reconsidering the Value of Equality
Some people believe that the equality of people's well-being makes an outcome better, other things being constant. Call this Telic Egalitarianism. In this paper I will propose a new interpretation of Telic Egalitarianism, and compare it with the interpretation that is proposed by Derek Parfit 1995 Parfit, Derek. 1995. Equality or Priority? University of Kansas: Lindley Lecture. Reprinted in Clayton and Williams [2000: 81–125] [Google Scholar] and…
Aggregation and the Separateness of Persons
Many critics of utilitarianism claim that we should reject interpersonal aggregation because aggregative principles do not take the separateness of persons seriously. In this article, I will reject this claim. I will first elucidate the theoretical structure of aggregation. I will then consider various interpretations of the notion of the separateness of persons and clarify what exactly those critics are trying to reject by appealing to the notio…
Arrow, Kenneth J.
Kenneth J. Arrow is an American Nobel-laureate welfare economist (b. 1921). He is the founder of modern social choice theory, and his General Possibility Theorem inluenced Rawls's TJ. Arrow claims that there exists no collective decision-making rule that satisies four seemingly uncontroversial conditions that any democratic society should satisfy (Pareto, unrestricted domain, independence of irrelevant alternatives, and non-dictatorship). In Arro…
Egalitarianism
Some people are worse off than others. Does this fact give rise to moral concern? Egalitarianism claims that it does, for a wide array of reasons. It is one of the most important and hotly debated problems in moral and political philosophy, occupying a central place in the work of John Rawls, Thomas Nagel, G. A. Cohen and Derek Parfit. It also plays an important role in practical contexts such as the allocation of health care resources, the desig…
Moral Aggregation
Aggregation is one of the fundamental features of utilitarianism and other forms of axiological theories, permitting the trade-off of morally relevant factors between different individuals. It is also a feature that critics of utilitarianism condemn. Yet the basic features of aggregation are not understood properly. This book elucidates the theoretical structure and scope of interpersonal and intra-personal aggregation in ethics and defends a for…
Egalitarianism
Population Axiology
The Oxford Handbook of Value Theory
Contributors Introduction to Value Theory: Iwao Hirose and Jonas Olson Part I: Foundations 1. Value and Normativity: Michael J. Zimmerman 2. Intrinsic and Extrinsic Value: Toni Ronnow-Rasmussen 3. Doubts about Intrinsic Value: Jonas Olson 4. Value and Desires: Graham Oddie 5. Value and Emotions: Christine Tappolet 6. Neutral and Relative Value: Garrett Cullity 7. Value and Time: Krister Bykvist 8. Monism and Pluralism about Value: Chris Heathwood…
Kantian Axiology and the Dualism of Practical Reason
General and Personal Good
Monism and Pluralism about Value
Value and Normativity
The Value of Existence
Can it be better or worse for a person to exist than not to exist at all? This old and challenging existential question has been raised anew in contemporary moral philosophy, mainly for two reasons. First, traditional “impersonal” ethical theories, such as utilitarianism, have counterintuitive implications in population ethics, for example, the repugnant conclusion. Second, it has seemed evident to many that an outcome can be better than another …
Neutral and Relative Value
This Handbook focuses on value theory as it pertains to ethics, broadly construed, and provides a comprehensive overview of contemporary debates pertaining not only to philosophy but also to other disciplines-most notably, political theory
Weighing and Reasoning: Themes from the Philosophy of John Broome
Cambridge Rawls Lexicon
John Rawls is widely regarded as one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century, and his work has permanently shaped the nature and terms of moral and political philosophy, deploying a robust and specialized vocabulary that reaches beyond philosophy to political science, economics, sociology, and law. This volume is a complete and accessible guide to Rawls' vocabulary, with over 200 alphabetical encyclopaedic entries written by…
Axiological Sufficientarianism
The axiological version of sufficientarianism contends that the disvalue associated with well-being below sufficiency is to be minimized, regardless of the aggregate value of well-being at and above sufficiency. This is called the sufficientarian ethos. This chapter offers the first axiological formula of the sufficientarian ethos, which reveals the following points. The disvalue of sub-sufficiency well-being is measured by a weighted sum of shor…
Ethics of Pandemics: An Introduction
Pandemic preparedness and response: Beyond the Access to Covid-19 Tools Accelerator
Nationalism has trumped solidarity, resulting in unnecessary loss of life and inequitable access to vaccines and therapeutics. Existing intellectual property (IP) regimens, trade secrets and data rights, under which pharmaceutical firms operate, have also posed obstacles to increasing manufacturing capacity, and ensuring adequate supply, affordable pricing, and equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines and other health products in low-income and midd…
Minimally good life and the human right to health
In Global Health Impact: Extending Access to Essential Medicines , Nicole Hassoun argues that the concept of a minimally good life grounds the human right to health, which in turn implies the human right to access essential medicines in developing countries. This article argues that Hassoun's argument must be revised. If the temporal unit of a minimally good life is identified, her argument faces a substantive problem, which undermines an importa…
Timeslice Prioritarianism, Prudence, and Weak Pareto
Andrić and Herlitz (2022) object to Timeslice Prioritarianism on the basis that it violates two purportedly uncontroversial properties: prudence and Weak Pareto. We will claim that their objection does not undermine Timeslice Prioritarianism because the basis of their objection is just a straightforward implication of utilitarianism. To establish this argument, we will show that a timeslice view satisfies prudence and Weak Pareto if and only if i…
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