In the past few years, there has been an increasing tendency in the application of formal and experimentalmethods to tackle philosophical issues.Weverymuch approve of this trend,whichweviewas part and parcel of the recent renewal of “scientific philosophy”: In our mind, the aim of a scientifically oriented philosophy is to adopt formal and experimental methods to address philosophical questions...

EJPE’S NOTE: This interview was conducted by Clemens Hirsch and C. Tyler DesRoches. Hirsch is a PhD candidate at the Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics (EIPE) at Erasmus University Rotterdam. DesRoches is a PhD student in the Philosophy Department at the University of British Columbia, and a co-editor of the Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics. Cambridge social ontology: an...

This paper is a theoretical and empirically informed examination of the naturalist distinction between withholding and withdrawing life-support. Drawing on the history of mechanical ventilation and on a recent Israeli law containing a novel approach to disconnecting life-support at the end of life, it is argued that the design of machines predicate the division line between “active” and “passiv...

Luc Bovens and Marc Fleurbaey Economics and Philosophy / Volume 28 / Special Issue 02 / July 2012, pp 217 ­ 249 DOI: 10.1017/S0266267112000235, Published online: 29 August 2012 Link to this article: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S0266267112000235 How to cite this article: Luc Bovens and Marc Fleurbaey (2012). EVALUATING LIFE OR DEATH PROSPECTS. Economics and Philosophy, 28, pp 217­249 ...