Elliott Thornley

elliott thornley
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2023- Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Global Priorities Institute, University of Oxford

2023 Philosophy Fellow, Center for AI Safety

2019-2022 DPhil, University of Oxford

Recent Publications:

Forthcoming, ‘How Much Should Governments Pay to Prevent Catastrophes? Longtermism's Limited Role’ (with Carl Shulman), in Essays on Longtermism, Oxford University Press
2023, ‘The Procreation Asymmetry, Improvable-Life Avoidance, and Impairable-Life Acceptance’, Analysis
2022, ‘Critical Levels, Critical Ranges, and Imprecise Exchange Rates in Population Axiology’, Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy
2022, ‘Is Global Consequentialism More Expressive Than Act Consequentialism?’, Analysis
2021, ‘The Impossibility of a Satisfactory Population Prospect Axiology (Independently of Finite Fine-Grainedness)’, Philosophical Studies
2021, ‘A Dilemma for Lexical and Archimedean Views in Population Axiology’, Economics and Philosophy

 

My research is in normative ethics (especially population ethics) and decision theory (especially as it might apply to artificial agents).