Weighing and Reasoning Themes from the Philosophy of John Broome

John Broome has made major contributions to, and radical innovations in, contemporary moral philosophy. His research combines the formal method of economics with philosophical analysis. Broome's works stretch over formal axiology, decision theory, philosophy of economics, population axiology, the value of life, the ethics of climate change, the nature of rationality, and practical and theoretical reasoning.
Weighing and Reasoning brings together fifteen original essays from leading philosophers who have been influenced by the work and thought of John Broome. It aims to offer a comprehensive evaluation of Broome's wide-ranging and far-reaching philosophical works over the past thirty years. The volume comprises two parts. The first part is focused on Broome's work on the theory of value, as exemplified in his books Weighing Goods, Weighing Lives, Economics out of Economics, and Climate Matters. The second part is focused on his work on practical and theoretical reasoning, which culminated in his Rationality through Reasoning. This volume also includes a piece by Broome on his intellectual history to date.

Iwao Hirose, McGill University,Andrew Reisner, McGill University

Iwao Hirose is an Associate Professor at the Philosophy Department and the School of Environment, McGill University. He is the co-author of Moral Aggregation, Egalitarianism, and The Ethics of Health Care Rationing with Greg Bognar, and co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Value Theory with Jonas Olson.



Andrew Reisner is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at McGill University. He received a DPhil in Philosophy from Oxford University and is co-editor of Reasons for Belief with Asbjorn Steglich Petersen.

My long road to philosophy, John Broome
Part I: Weighing
1. Liberty, preference satisfaction, and the case against categories, Geoffrey Brennan
2. Challenges to the principle of personal good, Doug MacLean
3. Metasemantics out of economics?, Anandi Hattiangadi
4. Separability, Iwao Hirose
5. The social disvalue of premature deaths, Hilary Greaves
6. Being and well-being, Krister Bykvist
7. On the social and personal value of existence, Marc Fleurbaey and Alex Voorhoeve
8. The affirmative answer to the existential question and the person affecting restriction, Gustaf Arrhenius
Part II: Reasoning
9. The meaning of 'Darn it!', Luc Bovens and Wlodek Rabinowicz
10. Keeping things simple, Roger Crisp
11. Moral requirements, Michael J. Zimmerman
12. Reasons for Broome, Jonathan Dancy
13. Normative conflicts and the structure of normativity, Andrew Reisner
14. Reasons and rationality: the case of group agents, Lara Buchak and Philip Pettit
15. Weighing explanations, Stephen Kearns and Daniel Star
Index