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Research: Political Philosophy
- Forthcoming:
- Time discounting defended. Public Affairs Quarterly.
[pre-publication
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- Synopsis: Although almost all other philosophers reject the idea that temporal proximity could matter morally, I argue that this view is more defensible than is commonly supposed
- Ancestor: Time discounting, consistency, and special obligations: a defence of Robust Temporalism. Global Priorities Institute, working paper no. 11-2021. [pdf | hyperlink | email me for a more recent draft]
- Won the Oxford Global Priorities Institute's 2021 Essay Prize for Global Priorities Research (£1000)
- Work
influenced:
- S. J. Beard and Patrick Kaczmarek, 2024. Existential risk, astronomical waste, and the reasonableness of a pure time preference for well-being. Monist, 107.2, 157-75. [open-access pdf | doi]
- David Thorstad, 2023. Papers I learned from (Part 1: Time discounting, consistency, and special obligations). Reflective Altruism blog post. [hyperlink]
- Disagreement, AI alignment, and bargaining.
Philosophical Studies, 182.7, 1757-87 [pre-publication
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- Synopsis: When stakeholders disagree about how an AI
should behave, resolving this disagreement through simulated
bargaining is better than resolving it through voting or
expected value maximisation
- Synopsis: When stakeholders disagree about how an AI
should behave, resolving this disagreement through simulated
bargaining is better than resolving it through voting or
expected value maximisation
- Gentrification: a philosophical analysis and critique.
Journal of Urban Affairs, 47.4, 1246-64.
[pre-publication
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- Synopsis: Forms of gentrification that don't displace
many land users are still pro tanto morally
objectionable insofar as they damage local communities
- Synopsis: Forms of gentrification that don't displace
many land users are still pro tanto morally
objectionable insofar as they damage local communities
- Redistribution and selfishness. Analysis, 84.3,
493-503. [pre-publication
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doi]
- Synopsis: Even in a world of completely unselfish
people, redistributive taxation would still discourage
productive contributions to national wealth
- Synopsis: Even in a world of completely unselfish
people, redistributive taxation would still discourage
productive contributions to national wealth