Subject of a response by Zofia Stemplowska, 'Harmful Choices: Scanlon and Voorhoeve on Substantive Responsibility', Journal of Moral Philosophy, forthcoming.
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Talks on radio; podcasts 'Can We Trust Our Moral Intuitions?' The Forum (BBC World Service). Link here. 'Is Inequality Bad?' Philosophy Bites. Link here.
Upcoming talks The Separateness of Persons and Priority Setting in Health Care. Disease Control Priorities, 3rd Edition: Issues in Priority Setting for Health: A DCP3 Methods Workshop February 28-March 2, 2012 Surajkund, India
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Alex Voorhoeve I'm a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method at the LSE. I am currently pursuing two research projects: 1. Liberal Egalitarianism I work on several questions that are central to liberal egalitarian theory:
2. The Economy of the Soul I am interested in what psychology reveals to us about how we actually make decisions and what rational choice theory and moral reflection tell us about how we should make decisions. |
E-mail: a.e.voorhoeve [at] lse.ac.uk
CONTENTS
I. Ethics and Intuitions 1. Frances Kamm In Search of the Deep Structure of 2. Peter Singer Each of Us Is Just One Among Others 3. Daniel Kahneman Can We Trust Our Intuitions? II. Virtue and Flourishing 4. Philippa Foot The Grammar of Goodness 5. Alasdair MacIntyre The Illusion of Self-Sufficiency III. Ethics and Evolution 6. Ken Binmore The Origin of Fairness 7. Allan Gibbard A Pragmatic Justification of Morality IV. Unity and Dissent 8. T.M. Scanlon The Kingdom of Ends on the Cheap 9. Bernard Williams A Mistrustful Animal V. Love and Morality 10. Harry Frankfurt The Necessity of Love 11. David Velleman Really Seeing Another A superb collection of interviews with leading figures in moral philosophy: Voorhoeve deftly limns the broad outlines of their thought and paints a physical picture of the setting, before interrogating his subjects' theories. (...) [A]n exemplary demonstration of philosophical discussion in action. Steven Poole, The Guardian (6 February 2010). Full review here.
Intellectually stimulating and highly entertaining (...) Voorhoeve has a knack for teasing out revealing answers. His probing questions often bring out the weakest or most revealing parts of the interviewed philosophers' views (...) Exciting. Krister Bykvist, The Philosophers' Magazine 49 (2010): 110-1. Full review here..
[A] beautifully produced collection. (...) A pleasure to read as well as philosophically valuable. Overall, it is an excellent book, providing something different, involving and very welcome. Hugh Upton, Philosophical Investigations 33 (2010): 380-3. Full review here.
Counter-Composition VI by Theo van Doesburgh (TATE modern) |
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Book Conversations on Ethics. Oxford University Press (2009; hardback; Kindle; paperback).
Principal research articles Decide as You Would with Full Information! An Argument Against Ex Ante Pareto. With Marc Fleurbaey. In Nir Eyal, Samia Hurst, Ole Norheim and Dan Wikler (eds.) Health Inequality: Ethics and Measurement. Oxford University Press (forthcoming).
Egalitarianism and the Separateness of Persons. With Marc Fleurbaey. Utilitas (forthcoming). Reply to Crisp. With Michael Otsuka. Utilitas 23 (2011): 109-14. (In Dutch) Prioriteit voor patienten met een lagere levenskwaliteit. (Priority for patients who are worse off.) Filosofie & Praktijk (Philosophy & Practice) 31 (2010): 40-51. Why It Matters that Some Are Worse Off Than Others: An Argument Against the Priority View. With Michael Otsuka. Philosophy & Public Affairs 37 (2009): 171-99.
Heuristics and Biases in a Purported Counterexample to the Acyclicity of "Better Than". Politics, Philosophy and Economics 7 (2008): 285-99. Scanlon on Substantive Responsibility. Journal of Political Philosophy 16 (2008): 184-200. Preference Change and Interpersonal Comparisons of Welfare. In Serena Olsaretti (ed.) Preferences and Well-Being. Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 59 (2006): 265-79. Transitivity, the Sorites Paradox, and Similarity-Based Decision-Making. With Ken Binmore. Erkenntnis 64:1 (2006): 101-14. Equal Opportunity and Opportunity Dominance. With Matthias Hild. Economics and Philosophy 20 (2004): 117-45. Defending Transitivity Against Zeno's Paradox. With Ken Binmore. Philosophy & Public Affairs 31 (2003): 272-79.
Working papers An Experiment on the Ellsberg Paradox (with Ken Binmore and Lisa Stewart); under review at the Journal of Risk and Uncertainty. Should Losses Count? A Critique of the Complaint Model. Choice Group Working Papers Vol 2 (2006).
Short articles in books, journals and magazines 'Who Am I? Beyond "I Think, Therefore I Am"' With Elie During, David Jopling, Timothy Wilson and Frances Kamm. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1234 (2011): 134-48. Inequalities in HIV Care: Chances versus Outcomes. With Nir Eyal. The American Journal of Bioethics 11 (12) (2011): 42-4.
'Philippa Foot', The Philosophers' Magazine 52 (2011): 9. (In Russian) 'Can We Trust Our Intuitions?' Esquire Russia 56 (2010): 48-54. [A translation by Ivan Bogantsev of an excerpt of chapter 3 of Conversations on Ethics.] Review of The Practice of Ethics by Hugh LaFollette. Social Choice and Welfare 34 (2010): 497-501. (In Russian) 'Peter Singer Interviewed' Esquire Russia 52 (2010): 82-9. [A translation by Ivan Bogantsev of an excerpt of chapter 2 of Conversations on Ethics.] Erasmus, The Philosophers' Magazine 48 (2010): 98-100. [Reprint of the entry in The Great Thinkers A-Z.] Mill and Barry on the Foundations of Liberal Rights. Published in a shortened version as 'The Limits of Autonomy', The Philosophers' Magazine 46 (2009): 78-82. Security and the War on Terror (contribution to a roundtable) in What More Philosophers Think. Eds. J. Baggini and J. Stangroom Continuum (2007): 19-32. In Search of the Deep Structure of Morality. An Interview with Frances Kamm. Imprints 9:2 (2006): 93-117. [The link is to the penultimate draft of the revised version that appears in Conversations on Ethics.] Is Poverty Our Problem? The Philosophers' Magazine 36 (2006): 46-9. Incentives and Principles for Individuals in Rawls' Theory of Justice. Ethics & Economics 3 (2005): 1-7. (In Russian) Взрывная волна ('Shockwave'--an interview with me by Mika Velikovskiy about the response to the London bombings of 7/7/05.) Political Journal 27 (2005): 48-9. Review of Pursuing Equal Opportunities: The Theory and Practice of Egalitarian Justice by Lesley A. Jacobs. Economics and Philosophy 21 (2005): 155-61. A Mistrustful Animal: Bernard Williams Interviewed. The Harvard Review of Philosophy XII (2004): 81-92. [A revised version appears in Conversations on Ethics.] Erasmus and Rawls in The Great Thinkers A-Z. Eds. J. Baggini and J. Stangroom, Continuum (2004): 91-3 and 199-201. Harry Frankfurt on the Necessity of Love. Philosophical Writings 23 (2003): 55-70. [A revised version appears in Conversations on Ethics.] The House that Jack Built. The Philosophers' Magazine 22 (2003): 28-31. The Grammar of Goodness. An Interview with Philippa Foot. The Harvard Review of Philosophy XI (2003): 32-44. [A revised version appears in Conversations on Ethics.] The Good, the Right, and the Seemly. Ken Binmore Interviewed. The Philosophers' Magazine 21 (2002): 48-51. [A revised and expanded version appears in Conversations on Ethics.] Mandeville. The Philosophers' Magazine 20 (2002): 53. Review of The Philosophy of Science by A. Rosenberg. Philosophy Today 14 (2001): 8-9. Kant on the Cheap. Thomas Scanlon Interviewed. The Philosophers' Magazine 16 (2001): 29-30. [A revised and expanded version appears in Conversations on Ethics.] (In Dutch) Schuldverlichting: niet voor niets. (Debt relief: not for nothing.) With R.M. Oort. Economisch-Statistische Berichten (Economic-Statistical Letters) 85 (2000): 141-43. (In Dutch) Dollarisering gewenst? (Is dollarisation desirable?) Economisch-Statistische Berichten 84 (1999): 577-81.
2012-13: Laurance S. Rockefeller Fellowship at the Center for Human Values, Princeton University. 2008-09: STICERD grant for the proposal 'An Experimental Test of the Hurwicz Criterion for Decision-Making Under Uncertainty' (with Ken Binmore). 2008-09: Faculty Fellowship at the Center for Ethics, Harvard University. 2006-08: British Academy Small Research Grant for the proposal 'Rational Choice Theory and Moral Decision-Making' (with Ken Binmore).
Since arriving at LSE, I have taught (part of) the following courses: PH 103 Reason, Knowledge and Values PH 211 Philosophy of Economics PH 214 Morality and Values PH 222 Philosophy and Public Policy PH 416 Philosophy, Morals, and Politics M.Sc. Seminar PH 413 Philosophy of Economics M.Sc. Seminar PH 415 Philosophy and Public Policy M.Sc. Seminar
'The Economy of the Soul: Rational Choice and Moral Decision-Making' LSE, November 21-22, 2008. 'The Power of Religion in Society'. (With Tijs Broeke; brought together Dutch and British politicians, the assistant general secretary of the Catholic Bishop's conference, and academics to debate the proper relation of Church and State.) LSE, January 24, 2008. Conference 'World Poverty and the Duty of Assistance'. LSE, June 27, 2006. (With Catherine Audard and Nick Bunin.)
Seminar in Philosophy and Public Policy, LSE, 2004-08. (With Luc Bovens.) Workshop in Philosophy, Economics, and Public Policy, ECAP5, Lisbon August 27-31 2005. (With Luc Bovens and Geoffrey Brennan.)
PhD in Philosophy at University College London, 2005. M.Phil. in Philosophy at King's College, Cambridge, 2000. Post-graduate diploma in Financial and Economic Policy from the Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR), 1999. M.A. in Philosophy, EUR, 1999. M.Sc. in Economics, EUR, 1997. Dr. Vincent Guillin: Auguste Comte and John Stuart Mill on Sexual Equality, 2006. Winner: Prix du Maison d'Auguste Comte 2006 (Paris). Now published. From January 2010: Assistant Professor (tenure track), Universite de Montreal; 2007- December 2009: Assistant Professor, College de France. Dr. Michael Moehler: A Theory of Minimal Morality, 2007. 2010-: Visiting Assistant Professor, Virginia Tech. 2009-10: Fellowship at the Murphy Institute, Tulane. 2007-09: Visiting Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Dr. Katherine King: Considering Kids: The Nature of Children's Claims to Justice, 2010. 2010-12: Greenwall Fellowship in Bioethics, Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Alice Obrecht: Getting It Right: An Account of the Moral Agency of NGOs, 2011. 2011-: Researcher for the One World Trust. Dr. Ittay Nissan: Doing the Best One Can, 2011. 2011- :Postdoctoral Fellowship, Hebrew University. Dr. Esha Senchaudhuri: A Critique of Pure Public Reason, 2012. 2011- :Temporary Lectureship, York University. Ben Ferguson (on exploitation). Susanne Burri (on rights against harm and moral status).
I supervise the following students in other departments (as second supervisor): Allison Mallard (Department of Government, on Kant's view of the right to revolution). Harald Schmidt (Department of Social Policy, on responsibility in health care). |