Professor John Broome FBA

Philosophy
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2000
Subjects
Economics, Philosophy

Summary

Professor Broome is Emeritus White's Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Oxford and Honorary Professor at the Australian National University. He works on normativity, rationality and reasoning, and also on the ethics of climate change. He was Lead Author of the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Current post

Emeritus White's Professor of Moral Philosophy, University of Oxford

Past appointments

The Australian National University Adjunct Professor

2013 - 2017

University of Oxford White's Professor of Moral Philosophy

2000 - 2014

University of St Andrews Professor of Philosophy

1996 - 2000

University of Bristol Professor of Economics

1992 - 1995

Publications

The Microeconomics of Capitalism

Published in 1981

Rationality Through Reasoning

Published in 2013

Climate Matters: Ethics in a Warming World

Published in 2012

Weighing goods: Equality, Uncertainty and Time

Published in 1991

Counting the Cost of Global Warming

Published in 1992

Ethics Out of Economics

Published in 1999

Weighing Lives

Published in 2004

Eight Fellows of the British Academy respond to climate activism tactics

1 Oct 2019

What do the country's leading humanities and social sciences scholars think about the growing movement for climate action?

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor John Marenbon FBA

The history of philosophy, especially c.500 – c.1700, with a focus on Boethius, Anselm and Abelard, but including philosophers up to Leibniz

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Professor Philip Kitcher FBA

Philosophy of science; philosophical issues in music and literature; systematic version of pragmatism

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Professor Martin Cripps FBA

Game theory & its applications to the economics of information, signalling, reputations & experimentation.

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