PhD Candidate Owen Clifton has won a . The fellowship aims to support promising graduate students and early-career scholars, primarily in economics and philosophy, in contributing to global priorities research, with a particular focus on issues that are of relevance to improving the wellbeing of future generations over the very long term.
In addition, Owen has been selected to participate in , an initiative of . The programme allows PhD students, postdocs and early-career faculty in economics and philosophy to visit Oxford for 4 weeks in June to work on a project related to global priorities research. Owen’s project concerns whether non-consequentialists should be “”: those who believe that a (the) principal determinant of the moral quality of an action is its expected effects on the long-term future.