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2010-PDF-Of-Philosophy-News UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSO PHY fall 2010 THE LIFE OF A PHILOSOPHER WHO WEIGHS LIVES AN INTERVIEW WITH JOHN BROOME By Ellen Roseman The inaugural Roseman Lecture in Practical Ethics was delivered last October by John Broome, White’s Professor of Moral Philosophy and Fellow of Corpus Christi College at Oxford. Before speaking on “The Ethics of Climate Change,” he was interviewed by Ellen Roseman, financial columnist at the Toronto Star, alumna (MA, 1969), and benefactor of this new lecture series. Philosophy professors often steer clear of hot topics appearing on the front page of newspapers, but not John Broome. Maybe it’s because he came to philosophy late in his academic career after spending almost 30 years teaching economics. John Broome Born in Kuala Lumpur, where his father and later at Oxford University. (Though was in the colonial civil service, he went he doesn’t have a doctorate in philoso - government in 2006. Stern’s report was to Cambridge University from 1965 to phy, he did acquire an MA in philosophy savagely criticized by some U.S. econo - 1968. He thought he’d study philosophy at the University of London in 1973.) mists, such as Martin Weitzman of until a tutor at Clare College talked him “I never enjoyed economics,” Broome Harvard and William Nordhaus of Yale. out of it. “He advised me to leave the admits. “It wasn’t what I wanted to do. Broome sprang to his defense. “I have to university and get a job building roads, It was just an accident.” confess they made me angry,” he says. saying that would put the idea out of my In 1992, he wrote a book, Counting the “They thought economics should be an head quickly,” Broome says. That advice Cost of Global Warming , which was ahead ethics-free zone.” led him to get his BA in mathematics of its time. He drifted away from the As a former economist turned moral and economics at Cambridge and his subject for many years, but was bitten philosopher, Broome speaks with author - Ph.D. in economics at the Massachusetts by the bug again recently. He was ity and passion on the ethics of climate Institute of Technology in 1972. persuaded by economist Nicholas Stern change. He gave the inaugural Roseman He returned to his first love when hired to write something for the Stern Review lecture last fall – it was his first-ever trip as a philosophy professor at the on The Economics of Climate Change , a to Toronto – and went to the Univer- University of St. Andrews in Scotland 700-page report released by the British ...continued on Page 2 Comin g this spring The Jerome S. Simon Memorial Lectures sponsored by Charles Simon (BA, Philosophy 1967; LLB, 1970) and his family. John Campbell, University of California, Berkeley, will speak on March 8 and 10, 2011, at 3 - 5 pm. We wish to thank the generous donors to the Department of Philosophy, without whom Philosophy News would not be possible. Please see the back page for details on how you can support the Department in endeavours like this one. ...continued from Page 1 “I had the forlorn hope of giving up read without wishing there were sity of Delaware to speak on the same economics. But now I realize that to more books of its kind.” topic the following weekend. do climate change, I have to work Soft-spoken and shy in person, with economists. They’re pretty good In the future, he hopes to write a Broome is confident in a public at this kind of thing.” Before getting serious book about climate change arena, while answering questions around to his book about climate for a wide audience, rather than writ - on his own work or pricking holes in change, however, he has to finish a ing for academics as he usually does. others’ work. It was a treat to meet book about rationality and reason that “We have to stop being in an ivory him in Toronto and to hear his views has preoccupied him for 10 years. tower when facing such an important about the future of humans on It’s been a long slog. issue,” he tells me over morning cof - this planet. fee a few hours before his Friday Not the most prolific of authors, he’s afternoon lecture. well regarded for a pair of books published in 1991 and 2004 respec - He tells me his wife is a translator, tively – Weighing Goods and Weighing fluent in six languages, who works Lives . Garrett Cullity of the for the World Health Organization in University of Adelaide calls both Geneva. They’ve been together since books “splendid.” Jacob Ross (BA, 1975 and live in a home they reno - 1998) of the University of Southern vated, a former cricket pavilion, in California says the later book is a the countryside a few hours north of masterwork that everyone interested Oxford. Their two children both in ethics should read. “The book work in public health, a daughter in involves some technicality, but every - England and a son in Australia. thing is clearly explained and should Ellen Roseman (MA, 1969), Broome is quick to acknowledge the be accessible to a wide audience… way his career has gone in a circle. lecture series benefactor In sum, Weighing Lives is impossible to ALUMNI NEWS Jennifer Bates (BA, 1987; PhD, 1997) has been tenured and pro - NEW GRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP moted to associate professor at Duquesne University in IN PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE Pittsburgh. Her second book, This summer the Department received a very generous Hegel and Shakespeare on Moral donation for a graduate award in the Philosophy of Imagination , appears in bookstores Science from Stephen Bowman (BA, 1976; LLB, 1979), this September. She specializes in managing partner at Bennett Jones LLP. 19th century German Philosophy Stephen Bowman and has strong interests in His significant donation will be matched by the University, resulting Philosophy and Literature, in an annual award of approximately $5,000, which will be directed Environmental Ethics, French towards incoming doctoral students. The department is very grateful Feminism, and Buddhist to our alumni and other friends for their support of our students. Philosophy. Gwen Bradford (Honours BA, by the German Association of Andrew was the co-author with Trinity, 2003), finishes her PhD at University Professors and Lecturers. Professor Joseph Heath of Rebel Yale this year (dissertation title: She has been at the Free University Sell: Why the Culture Can ’t be Jammed . The Value of Achievement: It’s Worth the in Berlin since 2006 and is the first He is currently a columnist and Effort ) and takes up a post at Rice non-German scholar to receive the blogger with Maclean ’s magazine. University in Houston, Texas. award. Her area of specialization is moral If you have alumni news you’d like to philosophy. Andrew Potter (MA, 1994; PhD, 2000) published a new book share, please contact Anita Di Giacomo Heather Cameron (BA, 1991) this year: The Authenticity Hoax: How at [email protected]. was chosen “Professor of the Year” We Get Lost Finding Ourselves . 2 University of Toronto requirements has allowed us to maintain funding for our grad students. We still From the Chair quality even as our student-faculty ratio lose good students to richer schools to has more than doubled. the south, even to public institutions The global financial recession, as well as such as Michigan or Rutgers. Several Donald Ainslie continued budgetary pressure brought alumni, such as Sidney Robinson, Michael Herman, Richard Yee, and The word ‘tri-campus’ is about by such things as the abolition of mandatory retirement, has been particu - others, have been particularly generous ubiquitous at the in helping us to start alleviating this University of Toronto, larly challenging for the Faculty of Arts and Science on the St. George campus. handicap. Another alumnus has recently and probably has been established a graduate scholarship in phi - ever since the This past year, each department in the Faculty was asked to create a plan for the losophy of science (see opposite page). Mississauga campus We continue to need your support. (now ‘UTM’) opened in upcoming five years, including contin - 1967 (the ‘bi-campus’ period, starting gencies for reduced or flat-lined funding. The Faculty of Arts and Science with the opening of the Scarborough The Philosophy Department plan out - Planning Committee reviewed campus [now ‘UTSC’] in 1964, was lines a vision for undergraduate Philosophy’s plan, as well as those from short-lived). education that emphasizes our ongoing over 70 other units, and the results were commitment to providing our majors released this past summer. The Faculty For Philosophy, we entered a new has rightly chosen to emphasize the tri-campus era in 2003, with UTM’s and specialists with an excellent educa - tion in the history of our discipline and maintenance of our excellence in establishment of a second undergradu - research and ongoing improvement in ate philosophy department at U of T. the contemporary debates that have been shaped by it. We would like to the student experience as top priorities. With UTSC’s establishment of a third While the Planning Committee recom - undergraduate philosophy department maintain the innovative research-orient - ed initiatives we have developed over mended that some units be closed or this past summer (see p.4 for details), amalgamated as means to better achiev - we now have a fully symmetrical tri- the past five years, such as the Socrates Project and the Honours Project (see p. ing these goals, Philosophy’s plan was campus structure. Each campus has its well-received.
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