Elad Uzan
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Elad Uzan is a member of the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Oxford and a Departmental Lecturer in Philosophy at Oxford’s Blavatnik School of Government. He completed his Ph.D. at Tel Aviv University and has held visiting posts at Harvard Law School and Oxford’s Faculty of Philosophy.
His research explores the intersection of moral, political, and legal philosophy, particularly addressing moral constraints and legal limits on self-defense, as well as the ethics of risk and uncertainty. He was recently awarded the American Philosophical Association’s Baumgardt Memorial Fellowship and will present the Baumgardt Memorial Lectures at Oxford’s Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics.
He joins the Paris IAS in October 2024 for a two-month writing residency as part of the Paris Oxford Program (POP), which brings together CNRS, Université Paris Cité and Oxford University.
Research Interests
Moral, political, and legal philosophy; the ethics of war; self- and other-defense; ethics of AI; philosophy of economics.
Moral Mathematics
Morality combines qualitative concepts such as good and bad with quantitative aspects like the magnitude of harm or benefits and the probabilities of outcomes. This project explores the interface between morality and mathematics via “moral mathematics”—applying mathematical methods to complex moral problems.
Key Publications
Elad Uzan, “Ending War and Risk,” in Perpetual War and International Law: Legacies of the War on Terror, ed. Brianna Rosen (Oxford University Press, forthcoming).
Elad Uzan, “Moral Sunk Costs in War and Self-Defence”, The Philosophical Quarterly 71(2): 359–377.
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