Iwao Hirose

Iwao Hirose (, born 1970) is a Japanese philosopher and economist. He is currently professor and Canada Research Chair in Value Theory and the Philosophy of Public Policy at McGill University.

Background Iwao Hirose was educated at Waseda University and at University of St Andrews, where he received a PhD. He previously taught at 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. DAISY text audiobook. "Prioritarianism and Egalitarianism", forthcoming in Brooks, T. (ed.) New Waves in Ethics. Palgrave Macmillan (2009). "Should we select people randomly?", Bioethics. "Reconsidering the value of equality", Australasian Journal of Philosophy, (May, 2009). "Why be formal?", in Leopold, D. and M. Stears, (eds.) Political Theory: Methods and Approaches. Oxford University Press (2008). "Aggregation and non-utilitarian moral theories", Journal of Moral Philosophy, 4 (2007). "Weighted lotteries in life and death cases", Ratio, 20 (2007). "Intertemporal distributive judgments", Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 8 (2005). "Aggregation and numbers", Utilitas, 16 (2004). "Saving the greater number without combining claims", Analysis, 61 (2001).