Hilary Greaves

Hilary Greaves 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]

Hilary Greaves
Born (1978-09-29) 29 September 1978
Cardiff, Wales, UK
Alma materUniversity of Oxford (BA)
Rutgers University (PhD)
EraContemporary philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
InstitutionsMerton College, Oxford
Somerville College, Oxford
Doctoral advisorFrank Arntzenius
Main interests
effective altruism, moral philosophy, formal epistemology
Websiteusers.ox.ac.uk/~mert2255/

Education

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][6] She has held appointments at Merton College and Somerville College and, since 2016, has been a Professor of Philosophy at Oxford.[4]

Research

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,[7] and moral uncertainty), formal epistemology, and the philosophy of physics,[8] particularly quantum mechanics.[9][10]

Selected publications

Books
  • Greaves, Hilary, and Theron Pummer (eds). Effective Altruism: Philosophical Issues. Oxford University Press, 2019. ISBN 9780192578303

Peer-reviewed articles
  • 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.[11])

References
  1. "Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford". Retrieved 2019-09-10.
  2. "Global Priorities Institute opens at Oxford". Retrieved 7 November 2019.
  3. "People, Global Priorities Institute". Retrieved 2019-09-10.
  4. "Curriculum vitae: Hilary Greaves" (PDF). Retrieved 2019-09-10.
  5. WorldCat item page
  6. Greaves, Hilary (2008). "Spacetime symmetries and the CPT theorem". RUcore. Rutgers University. doi:10.7282/T3CF9QFX. Retrieved November 2, 2019.
  7. Riesz, Matthew (2015-03-28). "British Academy announces Rising Star Engagement winners". Times Higher Education. Retrieved 2019-11-02.
  8. "Hilary Greaves' home page". Retrieved 2019-09-10.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. "Cushing Prize 2012 Winner". University of Notre Dame. Retrieved 2 November 2019.
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