Hilary Greaves | |
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![]() Greaves in 2015 | |
Born | 1978 (age 45–46) |
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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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Hilary Greaves (born 1978) is a British philosopher, currently serving as professor of philosophy at the University of Oxford. [1] From 2017 to 2022, she was the founding director of the Global Priorities Institute, a research centre for effective altruism at the university supported by the Open Philanthropy Project. [2] [3]
Greaves earned a BA in philosophy and physics from the University of 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]
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]
In October 2022, she was featured in Vox's Future Perfect 50 for her work on longtermism. [10] She has argued that, just as geographical distance should make no difference to how important it is to alleviate a person's suffering (to the extent that one is able to), temporal distance is likewise morally irrelevant. Greaves has defended her longtermist position in terms of both utilitarian outcomes and intergenerational justice. [11]
Hilary Greaves | |
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![]() Greaves in 2015 | |
Born | 1978 (age 45–46) |
Education |
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Era | Contemporary philosophy |
Region | Western philosophy |
Institutions | |
Thesis | Spacetime Symmetries and the CPT Theorem (2008) |
Doctoral advisor | Frank Arntzenius |
Main interests | |
Website |
users |
Hilary Greaves (born 1978) is a British philosopher, currently serving as professor of philosophy at the University of Oxford. [1] From 2017 to 2022, she was the founding director of the Global Priorities Institute, a research centre for effective altruism at the university supported by the Open Philanthropy Project. [2] [3]
Greaves earned a BA in philosophy and physics from the University of 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]
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]
In October 2022, she was featured in Vox's Future Perfect 50 for her work on longtermism. [10] She has argued that, just as geographical distance should make no difference to how important it is to alleviate a person's suffering (to the extent that one is able to), temporal distance is likewise morally irrelevant. Greaves has defended her longtermist position in terms of both utilitarian outcomes and intergenerational justice. [11]