Hilary Greaves

Dados Biográficos

ID1087616
NOMEHilary Greaves
PRENOMESHilary
SOBRENOMEGreaves
ASSINATURAGREAVES H
AFILIAÇÕESUniversity of Oxford
ORCID0000-0001-5996-0872
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS79
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES119
TOTAL COMO AUTOR78
TOTAL COMO EDITOR2
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO1929
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2024
ÍNDICE H5

  • On the desire to make a difference

    Open AccessHilary Greaves, Teruji Thomas et al.ARTICLEPhilosophical Studies2024

    True benevolence is, most fundamentally, a desire that the world be better. It is natural and common, however, to frame thinking about benevolence indirectly, in terms of a desire to make a difference to how good the world is. This would be an innocuous shift if desires to make a difference were extensionally equivalent to desires that the world be better. This paper shows that at least on some common ways of making a “desire to make a difference…

  • A Bargaining-Theoretic Approach to Moral Uncertainty

    Open AccessHilary Greaves, Owen Cotton-BarrattARTICLEJournal of Moral Philosophy2023

    Nick Bostrom and others have suggested treating decision-making under moral uncertainty as analogous to parliamentary decision-making. The core suggestion of this “parliamentary approach” is that the competing moral theories function like delegates to the parliament, and that these delegates then make decisions by some combination of bargaining and voting. There seems some reason to hope that such an approach might avoid standard objections to ex…

  • The British Constitution

    H R G Greaves, Hilary GreavesARTICLEParliamentary Affairs2023Citada por: 2

  • Optimum Population Size

    Hilary GreavesCHAPTEROxford Handbook of Population…2022

    Recent years have seen a surge in concern about overpopulation. The basic thought is that the planet's capacity to provide food, water, energy, materials, and simple living space, in addition to current artificial infrastructure, is being stretched far beyond optimum usage by the sheer number of people currently alive. This is so to such an extent, the thought continues, that it would be better, all things considered, to reduce world population. …

  • What Should We Agree on about the Repugnant Conclusion

    Open AccessStéphane Zuber, Nikhil Venkatesh et al.ARTICLEUtilitas2021Citada por: 5Referências: 4

    The Repugnant Conclusion is an implication of some approaches to population ethics. It states, in Derek Parfit's original formulation, For any possible population of at least ten billion people, all with a very high quality of life, there must be some much larger imaginable population whose existence, if other things are equal, would be better, even though its members have lives that are barely worth living. (Parfit 1984: 388)

  • Global Consequentialism

    Hilary GreavesCHAPTEROxford Handbook of Consequentialism2020

    Many types of things are arguably appropriate objects of deontic moral assessment: not only acts but also decision procedures, character traits, motives, public moral codes, and so on. Global consequentialism recommends, for every type that is an appropriate object of deontic assessment at all, that we assess items of that type in terms of their consequences. This (and not simple act consequentialism alone) seems to be roughly the kind of consequ…

  • Effective Altruism

    Hilary Greaves, Theron PummerBOOKEffective Altruism2019

    The effective altruism movement consists of a growing global community of people who organize significant parts of their lives around two key ideas, represented in its name. Altruism: If we use a significant portion of the resources in our possession—whether money, time, or talents—with a view to helping others, we can improve the world considerably. Effectiveness: When we do put such resources to altruistic use, it is crucial to focus on how muc…

  • Effective Altruism

    Hilary Greaves, Theron PummerBOOKEffective Altruism2019

    This is the first collective study of the thinking behind the effective altruism movement. This movement comprises a growing global community of people who organise significant parts of their lives around the two key concepts represented in its name. Altruism is the idea that if we use a significant portion of the resources in our possession-whether money, time, or talents-with a view to helping others then we can improve the world considerably. …

  • Moral Uncertainty About Population Axiology

    Open AccessHilary Greaves, Toby OrdARTICLEJournal of Ethics and Social…2017

    Given the deep disagreement surrounding population axiology, one should remain uncertain about which theory is best. However, this uncertainty need not leave one neutral about which acts are better or worse. We show that, as the number of lives at stake grows, the Expected Moral Value approach to axiological uncertainty systematically pushes one toward choosing the option preferred by the Total View and critical-level views, even if one’s credenc…

  • Population axiology

    Open AccessHilary GreavesARTICLEPhilosophy Compass2017Citada por: 5Referências: 40

    Population axiology is the study of the conditions under which one state of affairs is better than another, when the states of affairs in question may differ over the numbers and the identities of the persons who ever live. Extant theories include totalism, averagism, variable value theories, critical level theories, and "person-affecting" theories. Each of these theories is open to objections that are at least prima facie serious. A series of im…

  • A Reconsideration of the Harsanyi–Sen–Weymark Debate on Utilitarianism

    Open AccessHilary GreavesARTICLEUtilitas2016Referências: 5

    Harsanyi claimed that his Aggregation and Impartial Observer Theorems provide a justification for utilitarianism. This claim has been strongly resisted, notably by Sen and Weymark, who argue that while Harsanyi has perhaps shown that overall good is a linear sum of individuals’ von Neumann–Morgenstern utilities, he has done nothing to establish any connection between the notion of von Neumann–Morgenstern utility and that of well-being, and hence …

  • Extended Preferences and Interpersonal Comparisons of Well‐being

    Open AccessHilary Greaves, Harvey LedermanARTICLEPhilosophy and Phenomenological…2016Citada por: 4Referências: 6

    An important objection to preference‐satisfaction theories of well‐being is that these theories cannot make sense of interpersonal comparisons of well‐being. A tradition dating back to Harsanyi ( ) attempts to respond to this objection by appeal to so‐called extended preferences: very roughly, preferences over situations whose description includes agents’ preferences . This paper examines the prospects for defending the preference‐satisfaction th…

  • Antiprioritarianism

    Open AccessHilary GreavesARTICLEUtilitas2015Citada por: 2Referências: 7

    Prioritarianism is supposed to be a theory of the overall good that captures the common intuition of ‘priority to the worse off’. But it is difficult to give precise content to the prioritarian claim. Over the past few decades, prioritarians have increasingly responded to this ‘content problem’ by formulating prioritarianism not in terms of an alleged primitive notion of quantity of well-being, but instead in terms of von Neumann–Morgenstern util…

  • On the CPT theorem

    Hilary Greaves, Teruji ThomasARTICLEStudies in History and Philosophy…2014

  • Empirical Consequences of Symmetries

    Hilary Greaves, David WallaceARTICLEThe British Journal for the…2014Citada por: 29Referências: 10

    It is widely recognized that ‘global’ symmetries, such as the boost invariance of classical mechanics and special relativity, can give rise to direct empirical counterparts such as the Galileo-ship phenomenon. However, conventional wisdom holds that ‘local’ symmetries, such as the diffeomorphism invariance of general relativity and the gauge invariance of classical electromagnetism, have no such direct empirical counterparts. We argue against thi…

  • In Search of (Spacetime) Structuralism

    Open AccessHilary GreavesARTICLEPhilosophical Perspectives2011Citada por: 2

    The debate between substantivalists and relationists about space-time was given a new lease of life approximately twenty years ago, when John Earman and John Norton published an argument for the conclu-sion that, in the light of general relativity, substantivalism is untenable. Responses to Earman and Norton’s argument generated a proliferation of ‘substantivalisms’, and a debate between them that was, to the ears of at least some, distinctively …

  • Towards a Geometrical Understanding of the CPT Theorem

    Hilary GreavesARTICLEThe British Journal for the…2010Referências: 4

    The CPT theorem of quantum field theory states that any relativistic (Lorentz-invariant) quantum field theory must also be invariant under CPT, the composition of charge conjugation, parity reversal and time reversal. This paper sketches a puzzle that seems to arise when one puts the existence of this sort of theorem alongside a standard way of thinking about symmetries, according to which spacetime symmetries (at any rate) are associated with fe…

  • Time Reversal in Classical Electromagnetism

    Frank Arntzenius, Hilary GreavesARTICLEThe British Journal for the…2009Citada por: 8Referências: 2

    Richard Feynman has claimed that anti-particles are nothing but particles ‘propagating backwards in time’; that time reversing a particle state always turns it into the corresponding anti-particle state. According to standard quantum field theory textbooks this is not so: time reversal does not turn particles into anti-particles. Feynman's view is interesting because, in particular, it suggests a non-standard, and possibly illuminating, interpret…

  • On the Everettian Epistemic Problem

    Open AccessHilary GreavesARTICLEStudies in History and Philosophy…2007

  • Probability in the Everett Interpretation

    Open AccessHilary GreavesARTICLEPhilosophy Compass2007Citada por: 16Referências: 15

    The Everett (many-worlds) interpretation of quantum mechanics faces a prima facie problem concerning quantum probabilities. Research in this area has been fast-paced over the last few years, following a controversial suggestion by David Deutsch that decision theory can solve the problem. This article provides a non-technical introduction to the decision-theoretic program, and a sketch of the current state of the debate

  • Justifying Conditionalization

    Hilary Greaves, David WallaceARTICLEMind2006

    According to Bayesian epistemology, the epistemically rational agent updates her beliefs by conditionalization: that is, her posterior subjective probability after taking account of evidence X, pnew, is to be set equal to her prior conditional probability pold(·|X). Bayesians can be challenged to provide a justification for their claim that conditionalization is recommended by rationality—whence the normative force of the injunction to conditiona…

  • Understanding Deutsch's probability in a deterministic multiverse

    Open AccessHilary GreavesARTICLEStudies in History and Philosophy…2004

  • The Last Revolution and the Next

    Open AccessH R G Greaves, Hilary GreavesARTICLEThe Political Quarterly1970

  • The Foundations of Political Theory

    John C Livingston, H R G Greaves et al.ARTICLEThe Western Political Quarterly1961

  • Complacency or Challenge

    Open AccessH R G Greaves, Hilary GreavesARTICLEThe Political Quarterly1961