People

Project Members

Jason Alexander| (Philosophy, LSE) works in evolutionary game theory, the conceptual foundations of decision theory, and philosophy of the social sciences.

Nick Baigent| (Economics, Graz and Philosophy, LSE) is interested in individual and social choice theory and is currently working on Expressive and Identity based choice, and violent conflict.

Luc Bovens| (Philosophy, LSE) works on the philosophy of public policy and on Bayesian epistemology. Recently, he has been researching responsibility-sharing in EU Asylum Policies.

Richard Bradley| (Philosophy, LSE) specializes in decision theory and hypothetical reasoning. He is currently writing a book entitled "Decision Theory with a Human Face".

Franz Dietrich| (Philosophy, LSE and Economics, Maastricht) works on foundational questions about individual and social decisions, from normative and formal perspectives.

Christian List| (Government and Philosophy, LSE) works on group decision-making, especially the theory of judgement aggregation, group deliberation and group agency. 

Kai Spiekermann| (Government, LSE) works on normative and positive questions in political philosophy and social choice theory. He specializes in agent-based modeling.

Katie Steele| (Philosophy, LSE) specializes in decision theory and philosophy of statistics. Recently, she has been working on evidence in relation to climate change.

Alex Voorhoeve| (Philosophy, LSE) works on moral decision making and equality. His book "Conversations on Ethics" appeared with Oxford University Press in 2009.

PhD Students

• Holke Brammer works on models of preference change.
• Susanne Burri does research in moral decision-making.
• Mareile Drechsler works on decision theory and bounded rationality.
• Ben Ferguson is interested in normative philosophy of economics.
• Roberto Fumagalli works on the foundations of neuroeconomics.
• Ittay Nissan is interested in decision and game theory.
• Esha Senchaudhuri works on public justification and procedural justice.
• Hlynur Orri Stefánsson is interested in philosophy of economics. 
• Chris Thompson works on epistemic defences of democracy.
• James Wong works on democracy and environmental decision-making.

Choice Group Associates

• Christian Bach (Maastricht)
• Marc Fleurbaey (Paris Descartes and LSE)
• Wulf Gaertner (Osnabrueck and LSE)
• Conrad Heilmann (Rotterdam)
• John Howard (LSE)
• David Makinson (LSE)
• Wlodek Rabinowicz (Lund)