Alex Voorhoeve
- Faculty Fellow, 2008-2009
Alex Voorhoeve is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the London School of Economics. He is currently pursuing two research projects. The first, Liberal Egalitarianism, offers an interpretation and defense of three liberal egalitarian ideals: distributional equality, responsibility, and neutrality. His articles on these topics include: "Scanlon on Substantive Responsibility," in the Journal of Political Philosophy and "Preference Change and Interpersonal Comparisons of Well-Being," in Preferences and Well-Being. The second project, Rational Choice Theory and Moral Decision-Making, examines how intuitive judgments of moral preferability may fail to conform to the demands of rational choice theory, and how we should respond to such divergence. His articles on these topics include "Heuristics and Biases in a Purported Counterexample to the Transitivity of 'Better Than'," in Politics, Philosophy and Economics, and "Defending Transitivity Against Zeno's Paradox," in Philosophy and Public Affairs. During the fellowship year, he will work on the application of ideas about responsibility and preference change to health care policies, and on experiments in moral decision-making.