Iwao Hirose

Iwao Hirose (born 1970) is 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