The ESRC Preference Elicitation Group, in partnership with the LSE Choice Group in the Department of Philosophy, Logic, and Scientific Method, is pleased to annouce:

A Symposium on John Broome’s Weighing Lives

LSE, Lakatos Building, Room T206

June 29, 2005

UPDATE: This symposium has been published as a symposium in the journal Economics and Philosophy, and can be found here. Broome’s exchange with Jones-Lee was published separately in the same journal and can be found here (subscription required).

PRESENTATIONS:

NEUTRALITY AND PLEASURE,

ROGER CRISP, Uehiro Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy at St Anne's College, Oxford

DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES ON SAVING LIVES

DOUGLAS MACLEAN, Professor of Philosophy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE ETHICALLY NEUTRAL,

KRISTER BYKVIST, Tutor and Fellow in Philosophy, Jesus College, Oxford

THE PARITY VIEW AND INTUITIONS OF NEUTRALITY,

MOZAFFAR QIZILBASH, University of York

WEIGHING LIVES – AN APPLIED ECONOMIST’S PERSPECTIVE,

MICHAEL JONES-LEE, Professor of Economics, University of Newcastle

REPLIES, JOHN BROOME, White’s Professor of Moral Philosophy, Oxford University