Parfit Memorial Lecture 2025 - Jacob M. Nebel (Princeton University)
Where: Pichette Auditorium, Pembroke College, Oxford
When: Monday 16 June 2025, 4.30-6.30pm
The Parfit Memorial Lecture is an annual distinguished lecture series established by the Global Priorities Institute (GPI) in memory of Derek Parfit. The aim is to encourage research among academic philosophers on topics related to global priorities research - using evidence and reason to figure out the most effective ways to improve the world. This year's lecture is jointly organised by the Uehiro Oxford Institute and the Global Priorities Institute. We are delighted to have Jacob M. Nebel deliver the Parfit Memorial Lecture. The Parfit Memorial Lecture is organised in conjunction with the Atkinson Memorial Lecture.
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Title: The Procreation Asymmetry: Some Puzzles (final title tbc)
About the speaker
Jake Nebel is a professor of philosophy at Princeton University. Previously he taught at USC, after receiving a PhD from NYU (2019), BPhil from Oxford (2015), and AB from Princeton (2013). He works mainly in ethics. His interests include the ethics of population, distribution, and risk; the formal structure of value relations; the measurement and aggregation of well-being and other values; philosophical foundations and applications of social choice theory; and the creation and preservation of value. Jeff has also written about reasons and rationality, propositional attitude reports, and the logic of comparatives. Jake currently serves as an associate editor at Ethics and Social Choice and Welfare and on the editorial board of Politics, Philosophy & Economics.