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Hilary Greaves

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Hilary Greaves (born 29 September 1978) is a British philosopher. She is currently a professor at the University of Oxford and the director of the Global Priorities Institute.

Greaves earned a BA in philosophy and physics from Oxford and a PhD in philosophy from Rutgers. Her doctoral thesis, completed under the supervision of Frank Arntzenius, was “Spacetime symmetries and the CPT theorem”.[1] Prior to her current professorship, she held appointments at Merton and Somerville Colleges.

Greaves’ current work is on issues related to global priorities research. Her research interests include moral philosophy (including foundational issues in consequentialism, interpersonal aggregation, population ethics, and moral uncertainty), formal epistemology, and the philosophy of physics.

Further reading

Greaves, Hilary (2020) Evidence, cluelessness, and the long term, Effective Altruism Forum, November 1.

Greaves, Hilary & John Cusbert (2021) Comparing existence and non-existence, in Joe Roussos & Paul Bowman (eds.) Studies on Climate Ethics and Future Generations Vol. 3, Stockholm: Institute for Futures Studies, pp. 163–196.

Wiblin, Robert & Keiran Harris (2018) Philosophy Prof Hilary Greaves on moral cluelessness, population ethics, probability within a multiverse, & harnessing the brainpower of academia to tackle the most important research questions, 80,000 Hours, October 23.

External links

Hilary Greaves. Personal homepage.

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    Greaves, Hilary (2008) Spacetime Symmetries and the CPT Theorem, PhD thesis, Rutgers University.

Ev­i­dence, clue­less­ness, and the long term—Hilary Greaves

james1 Nov 2020 17:25 UTC
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Plain(er) English Rewrite of ‘Dis­count­ing for Public Policy: A Sur­vey’ by Hilary Greaves

jojo_lee26 Apr 2020 3:34 UTC
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Hilary Greaves: Do­ing good to­gether — col­lec­tivism vs. coordination

EA Global3 Nov 2017 7:43 UTC
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Hilary Greaves: The col­lec­tivist cri­tique of the EA movement

Aaron Gertler 🔸19 Jan 2021 13:18 UTC
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Con­cepts of ex­is­ten­tial catas­tro­phe (Hilary Greaves)

Global Priorities Institute9 Nov 2023 17:42 UTC
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Con­cepts of ex­is­ten­tial catastrophe

Vasco Grilo🔸15 Apr 2024 17:16 UTC
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Hilary Greaves: Ev­i­dence, clue­less­ness and the long term

EA Global25 Oct 2020 5:48 UTC
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Sum­mary: Ev­i­dence, clue­less­ness and the long term | Hilary Greaves

Vasco Grilo🔸15 Apr 2022 17:22 UTC
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Hilary Greaves, Peter Singer, David Pearce, & Justin Oak­ley: Philos­o­phy and effec­tive altruism

EA Global28 Aug 2015 17:21 UTC
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