Alex Voorhoeve

Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, LSE

Professor

Houghton Street

London, WC2A 2AE

United Kingdom

http://personal.lse.ac.uk/voorhoev

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Scholarly Papers (32)

1.

Equality versus Priority

Equality versus Priority. Michael Otsuka and Alex Voorhoeve. In Serena Olsaretti (ed.) Oxford Handbook of Distributive Justice. Oxford University Press (2018): 65-85.
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 04 Aug 2021
Michael Otsuka and Alex Voorhoeve
Independent and Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, LSE
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Egalitarianism, Prioritarianism, Distributive Justice

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Epicurus on Pleasure, a Complete Life, and Death: A Defence

Epicurus on Pleasure, a Complete Life, and Death: A Defence. Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 118: 3 (2018): 225-253.
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 30 Jul 2021
Alex Voorhoeve
Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, LSE
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Healthy Nails versus Long Lives: An Analysis of a Dutch Priority-Setting Proposal

Nir Eyal, Samia A. Hurst, Christopher Murray, S. Andrew Schroeder & Daniel Wikler (eds.), Measuring the Global Burden of Disease: Philosophical Dimensions. New York, NY, USA: pp. 273-292 (2020)
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 08 Jul 2021
Alex Voorhoeve
Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, LSE
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Priority Setting in health, Health care justice, Aggregation, Prioritarianism

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Decide as You Would with Full Information! An Argument against Ex Ante Pareto

Decide as You Would with Full Information! An Argument against ex ante Pareto. Marc Fleurbaey and Alex Voorhoeve. In Nir Eyal, Samia Hurst, Ole Norheim, and Dan Wikler (eds.), Inequalities in Health: Concepts, Measures, and Ethics. Oxford University Press (2013), pp. 113-128.
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 09 Aug 2021
Marc Fleurbaey and Alex Voorhoeve
Paris School of Economics and Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, LSE
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Pareto Principle, Egalitarianism, Decision-Making Under Risk, Social Choice Theory

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Open and Inclusive: Fair Processes for Financing Universal Health Coverage

World Bank. 2023. Open and Inclusive: Fair Processes for Financing Universal Health Coverage. Washington, DC.
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 28 Jul 2023
World Health Organization (WHO), The World Bank, University of Bergen, University of Bergen - Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care and Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, LSE
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Deliberative democracy, health financing, fairness, universal health coverage

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Why Health-Related Inequalities Matter and which Ones Do

Global Health Priority-Setting: Beyond Cost-Effectiveness. Ed. Ole Frithjof Norheim, Ezekiel Emanuel and Joseph Millum. Oxford University Press, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 30 Jul 2021
Alex Voorhoeve
Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, LSE
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health, ethics, inequality, luck, priority-setting

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Difficult Trade-Offs in Response to COVID-19: The Case for Open and Inclusive Decision-Making

Difficult Trade-offs in Response to COVID-19: The Case for Open and Inclusive Decision-making. Ole Frithjof Norheim, Joelle Abi-Rached, Liam Kofi Bright, Kristine Baeroe, Octavio Luiz Motta Ferraz, Siri Gloppen, and Alex Voorhoeve, Nature Medicine 27 (2021): 10-13.
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 30 Jul 2021
University of Bergen, École Normale Supérieure (ENS), London School of Economics, University of Bergen, King's College London - The Dickson Poon School of Law, University of Bergen - Department of Comparative PoliticsChr. Michelsen Institute (CMI) and Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, LSE
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COVID-19, deliberative democracy, health care justice, procedural justice, trust

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The Pleasures of Tranquillity

Number of pages: 12 Posted: 08 Jul 2021
Alex Voorhoeve
Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, LSE
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Epicurus, well-being, hedonism, value of life

Universal Health Coverage, Priority Setting and the Human Right to Health

Number of pages: 10 Posted: 06 Aug 2021
University College London, Glasgow Caledonian University, King's College London - The Dickson Poon School of Law, University College London, Johns Hopkins University - Berman Institute of Bioethics, King’s College School of Medicine, University of Bergen, University College London, King’s College London - International Development Institute, King’s College London, Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, LSE, Queen Mary, University of London, University College London - Department of Political Science, University College London, Harvard University and University of Essex - Human Rights Centre
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human rights, right to health, priority setting in health care

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Three Case Studies in Making Fair Choices on the Path to Universal Health Coverage

Three Case Studies in Making Fair Choices on the Path to Universal Health Coverage. Alex Voorhoeve, Tessa TT Edejer, Lydia Kapiriri, Ole F Norheim, Olivier Basenya, Dorjsuren Bayarsaikhan, Ikram Chentaf, Nir Eyal, Amanda Folsom, Rozita Halina Tun Hussein, Cristian Morales, Florian Ostmann, Trygve Ot
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 04 Aug 2021
Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, LSE, World Health Organization (WHO), McMaster University, University of Bergen, Centre for Effective Altruism, Government of the Republic of Burundi - Ministry of Health, World Health Organization (WHO) - Regional Office for the Western Pacific, Government of the Kingdom of Morocco - Ministry of Health, Harvard University - T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Results for Development, Federal Government of Malaysia - Ministry of Health, Pan American Health Organization, The Alan Turing Institute, University of Bergen - Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care, International Health Policy Program (IHPP) - ThailandInternational Health Policy Program (IHPP), Pan American Health Organization, World Bank, Ministry of Public Health, Thailand, Harvard University, Harvard School of Public Health - Department of Global Health and Population and Government of the Republic of Ghana - Ministry of Health
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universal health coverage, priority-setting, fairness, right to health

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Is the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s 2021 Tax Deal Fair?

LSE Public Policy Review 2022; 2(4): 11, pp. 1–9. DOI: https://doi.org/10.31389/lseppr.72
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 13 Jan 2023
Tove Maria Ryding and Alex Voorhoeve
Eurodad and Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, LSE
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Fairness, global tax system, multinational corporations, free-riding, minimum corporate tax, tax avoidance, fiscal autonomy, developing countries

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How Much Ambiguity Aversion? Finding Indifferences between Ellsberg's Risky and Ambiguous Bets

How Much Ambiguity Aversion? Finding Indifferences Between Ellsberg's Risky and Ambiguous Bets. Ken Binmore, Lisa Stewart and Alex Voorhoeve. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 45 (2012): 215-38.
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 09 Aug 2021
Kenneth Binmore, Lisa Stewart and Alex Voorhoeve
University College London - Department of Economics, Australian National University (ANU) and Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, LSE
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Ambiguity Aversion, Ellsberg Paradox, Principle of Insufficient Reason, Hurwicz Criterion, maximin criterion

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How Should We Aggregate Competing Claims?

Voorhoeve, A. (2014). How Should We Aggregate Competing Claims?. Ethics, 125(1).
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 10 Aug 2021
Alex Voorhoeve
Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, LSE
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Distributive ethics, The numbers problem, Rational choice theory, Aggregation, Sympathy

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Transitivity, the Sorites Paradox, and Similarity-Based Decision-Making

Voorhoeve, Alex, and Ken Binmore. "Transitivity, the sorites paradox, and similarity-based decision-making." Erkenntnis 64.1 (2006): 101-114.
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 12 Aug 2021
Alex Voorhoeve and Kenneth Binmore
Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, LSE and University College London - Department of Economics
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Transivitity, Similarity-Based, Decision-Making, Decision Theory

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May a Government Mandate more Comprehensive Health Insurance than Citizens Want for Themselves?

May a Government Mandate More Comprehensive Health Insurance than Citizens Want for Themselves? Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy 4 (2018): 167-91.
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 05 Aug 2021
Alex Voorhoeve
Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, LSE
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Health care justice, Health insurance mandates, Liberty, Egalitarianism, Adverse selection, Public goods

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Why One Should Count only Claims with which One Can Sympathize

Voorhoeve, Alex. "Why one should count only claims with which one can sympathize." Public Health Ethics 10.2 (2017): 148-156.
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 05 Aug 2021
Alex Voorhoeve
Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, LSE
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Aggregation, distributive justice, sympathy

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Policy Evaluation under Severe Uncertainty: A Cautious, Egalitarian Approach

Conrad Heilmann and Julian Reiss (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Economics.
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 08 Jul 2021
Alex Voorhoeve
Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, LSE
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Ambiguity Attitudes, Framing, and Consistency

Voorhoeve, A., Binmore, K. G., Stefansson, A., & Stewart, L. (2016). Ambiguity attitudes, framing, and consistency. Theory and Decision, 81(3), 313-337.
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 09 Aug 2021
Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, LSE, University College London - Department of Economics, Uppsala University and Australian National University (ANU)
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ambiguity attitudes, framing, consistency of choice, Ellsberg paradox

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Priority or Equality for Possible People?

Voorhoeve, Alex, and Marc Fleurbaey. "Priority or equality for possible people?." Ethics 126.4 (2016): 929-954.
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 09 Aug 2021
Alex Voorhoeve and Marc Fleurbaey
Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, LSE and Paris School of Economics
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Egalitarianism, Prioritarianism, Risk, Population ethics

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Response to Rabin

Response to Rabin. In Adam Oliver (ed.), Behavioural Public Policy. Cambridge University Press (2013): 140-147.
Number of pages: 5 Posted: 09 Aug 2021
Alex Voorhoeve
Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, LSE
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Paternalism, Behavioural Economics

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On the Social and Personal Value of Existence

On the Social and Personal Value of Existence. Marc Fleurbaey and Alex Voorhoeve. In Iwao Hirose and Andrew Reisner (ed.) Weighing and Reasoning: Themes from the Work of John Broome. Oxford University Press (2015): 95-109.
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 09 Aug 2021
Marc Fleurbaey and Alex Voorhoeve
Paris School of Economics and Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, LSE
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value of existence, population ethics, repugnant conclusion, person-affecting principle

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Have Reforms Reconciled Health Rights Litigation and Priority Setting in Costa Rica?

Have Reforms Reconciled Health Rights Litigation and Priority Setting in Costa Rica? Alessandro Luciano and Alex Voorhoeve. Health and Human Rights Journal 21:2 (2019): 283-293.
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 02 Aug 2021
Alessandro Luciano and Alex Voorhoeve
London School of Economics and Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, LSE
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Heuristics and Biases in a Purported Counterexample to the Acyclicity of 'Better Than'

Voorhoeve, A. (2008). Heuristics and biases in a purported counter-example to the acyclicity of 'better than'. politics, philosophy & economics, 7(3), 285-299.
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 12 Aug 2021
Alex Voorhoeve
Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, LSE
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acyclicity, rationality, similarity-based decision-making, heuristics and biases, pain evaluation

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Egalitarianism under Severe Uncertainty

Egalitarianism under Severe Uncertainty. Thomas Rowe and Alex Voorhoeve. Philosophy and Public Affairs 46:3 (2018): 239-268.
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 30 Jul 2021
Tom Rowe and Alex Voorhoeve
University of Virginia and Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, LSE
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uncertainty, equality, decision theory, Pareto Principle

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Egalitarianism and the Separateness of Persons

Egalitarianism and the Separateness of Persons. Alex Voorhoeve and Marc Fleurbaey. Utilitas 24 (2012): 381-98.
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 09 Aug 2021
Marc Fleurbaey and Alex Voorhoeve
Paris School of Economics and Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, LSE
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equality, separateness of persons, distributive ethics

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Balancing Small against Large Burdens

Voorhoeve, A. (2018). Balancing small against large burdens. Behavioural Public Policy, 2(1), 125-142.
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 05 Aug 2021
Alex Voorhoeve
Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, LSE
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Priority-setting in health, moral psychology, justice in health

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Equality for Prospective People: A Novel Statement and Defence

Alex Voorhoeve, Equality for Prospective People: A Novel Statement and Defence Utilitas, 2020
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 15 Mar 2021
Alex Voorhoeve
Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, LSE
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egalitarianism, population ethics, well-being

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Similarity and the Trustworthiness of Distributive Judgments

Similarity and the Trustworthiness of Distributive Judgments. Alex Voorhoeve, Arnaldur Stefansson, and Brian Wallace. Economics and Philosophy 35:3 (2019): 537-561.
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 30 Jul 2021
Alex Voorhoeve, Arnaldur Stefánsson and Brian Wallace
Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, LSE, Uppsala University and SourceClear
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similarity, distributive justice, moral decision-making, heuristics, reflective equilibrium

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Preference Change and Interpersonal Comparisons of Welfare

Voorhoeve, A. (2006). Preference change and interpersonal comparisons of welfare. Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements, 59, 265-280.
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 12 Aug 2021
Alex Voorhoeve
Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, LSE
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welfare, neutrality, utility

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Précis of the Report Open and Inclusive: Fair Processes for Financing Universal Health

Number of pages: 11 Posted: 26 Feb 2025
Alex Voorhoeve, Elina Dale and Unni Gopinathan
Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, LSE, Norwegian Institute of Public Health and Norwegian Institute of Public Health
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Health care justice, Equity, Deliberative democracy, accountability, procedural justice

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Response to Critics of Open and Inclusive: Fair Processes for Financing Universal Health Coverage

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 25 Feb 2025
Alex Voorhoeve and Elina Dale
Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, LSE and Norwegian Institute of Public Health
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Health financing, procedural fairness, equity, accountability, participation, legitimacy

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Procedural fairness and the resilience of health financing reforms in Ukraine

Number of pages: 14 Posted: 07 Jan 2025
Independent researcher, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, LSE, Independent researcher and Norwegian Institute of Public Health
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Health financing, health policy, implementation, taxation, fairness, ethics, accountability, transparency, participation, Ukraine

Other Papers (1)

Total Downloads: 17
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Response to Our Critics

Voorhoeve, Alex, Trygve Ottersen, and Ole Fritjof Norheim. "Response to our critics." Health Economics, Policy and Law 11.1 (2016): 103-111.
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 11 Aug 2021
Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, LSE, University of Bergen and University of Bergen
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health care ethics, fair distribution, non-ideal theory