معرفی
Hilary Greaves is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oxford and Supernumerary Fellow at Merton College. She holds visiting appointments at the Institute for Futures Studies (Stockholm) and the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on ethics, formal epistemology, and philosophy of physics, with particular emphasis on consequentialism, population ethics, effective altruism, and AI ethics. She previously directed the Global Priorities Institute (2018–2022).
Education: PhD in Philosophy (Rutgers University, 2008); BA in Physics and Philosophy (Oxford, 2003, First Class Honors). Awards include the Leverhulme Research Fellowship (2018–2020) and the British Academy Rising Star Engagement Award (2015–2017).
Research interests span moral philosophy, including aggregation debates, existential risk analysis, and interdisciplinary work with economics. She has published extensively in journals like Philosophy and Phenomenological Research and Mind, and contributed to edited volumes on consequentialism and population ethics.
Teaching includes graduate courses on effective altruism, population ethics, and undergraduate modules in moral philosophy and philosophy of physics. She has supervised eight DPhil theses and organized workshops on global priorities research and population ethics.
Grants include a £1.2M Leverhulme Trust project on population ethics (2014–2018) and collaborations with the Oxford Martin School on human rights for future generations. Her lab, the Global Priorities Institute, focuses on longtermist ethical frameworks and policy applications.
