The Philosophy of Value by John Broome

The Philosophy of Value by John Broome

The Philosophy of Value presents sixteen chapters investigating a wide variety of issues concerning value. The chapters address general theoretical issues, adopting a tight analytic approach: the foundations of utilitarianism, incommensurable values, and the measurement of people's wellbeing. Running through the volume is a critical examination of the ethical basis of economics. However, the chapters also demonstrate the application of mathematical methods that were pioneered within economics.Alongside these general issues, the volume includes chapters devoted to the particular issue of the value of human life, considering the value of prolonging existing lives and also the value of bringing new lives into existence, the subject of population ethics. These chapters include assessments of practical applications in public health and cost-benefit analysis. A particular focus is the application of value theory to the vital problem of climate change: the volume closes with a concrete proposal to harness people's self-interest as a means of stopping climate change.

John Broome is Emeritus White's Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Oxford and Honorary Professor at the Australian National University. He was previously Professor of Philosophy at the University of St Andrews. His earlier career was in economics: a PhD in Economics from MIT, a Lectureship in Economics at Birkbeck College, University of London, and a Professorship in Economics at the University of Bristol. He has held visiting posts at Princeton University, the Australian National University, the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, Stanford University, and elsewhere. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Fellow of the British Academy, a Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Corresponding Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. His publications include Normativity, Rationality and Reasoning: Selected Essays (OUP, 2001) and Weighing Lives (OUP, 2004).

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ISBN 13	9780198823728
ISBN 10	019882372X
Title	The Philosophy of Value
Author	John Broome
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Year published	2026-12-01
Number of pages	336
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