Iwao Hirose

Iwao Hirose (born 1970) is a Japanese philosopher and economist. He is currently Associate Professor at McGill University.

Background

Iwao Hirose was educated at Waseda University and at University of St Andrews, where he received a PhD. He has previously had tenures at the University College, Oxford and Harvard University.

Published works

• Iwao Hirose. Moral Aggregation (Oxford University Press, 2014)
• Greg Bognar and Iwao Hirose. The Ethics of Rationing Health Care (Routledge, 2014)
• Iwao Hirose. Egalitarianism (Routledge, 2014)
• Saving the greater number without combining claims", Analysis, 61 (2001).
• Aggregation and numbers", Utilitas, 16 (2004).
• Intertemporal distributive judgments", Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 8 (2005).
• Weighted lotteries in life and death cases", Ratio, 20 (2007).
• Aggregation and non-utilitarian moral theories", Journal of Moral Philosophy, 4 (2007).
• Why be formal?", in Leopold, D. and M. Stears, (eds.) Political Theory: Methods and Approaches. Oxford University Press (2008).
• Reconsidering the value of equality", Australasian Journal of Philosophy, (May, 2009).
• Should we select people randomly?", Bioethics.
• Prioritarianism and Egalitarianism", forthcoming in Brooks, T. (ed.) New Waves in Ethics. Palgrave Macmillan (2009).

External links

• Iwao Hirose's Research Page