Biography
Christian List was appointed at the LSE in 2002. His works in social choice theory, political philosophy, formal epistemology and the philosophy of social science. His research focuses in particular on the question of how groups can make decisions under conditions of pluralism and on the relationship between deliberation and decision-making. A graduate of the University of Oxford, he held research and visiting positions at Oxford, the Australian National University, MIT, Harvard, Princeton and the University of Konstanz. He was awarded a Nuffield Foundation New Career Development Fellowship (with Franz Dietrich) in 2005, and a Philip Leverhulme Prize in Philosophy in 2007. Jointly with Richard Bradley, he initiated the LSE's Choice Group, an interdisciplinary research group focusing on philosophical, mathematical and empirical aspects of individual and collective decision-making. He is currently one of the editors of Economics and Philosophy.
Research Interests
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Social choice theory
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Political theory, formal and normative
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Philosophy of science and social science
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Theories of democracy and deliberation
Activities
Selected current research projects:
Teaching Responsibilities
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GV4F6 The Politics and Philosophy of Environmental Change
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PH221 Problems of Analytic Philosophy
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PH415 Philosophy of Public Policy
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PH501 PhD seminar
The Politics and Philosophy of Environmental Change
Featured Book
Group Agency: the possibility, design, and status of corporate agents
Christian List and Philip Pettit
Oxford University Press (7 April 2011)
Are companies, churches, and states genuine agents? Or are they just collections of individual agents that give a misleading impression of unity? This question is important, since the answer dictates how we should explain the behaviour of these entities and whether we should treat them as responsible and accountable on the model of individual agents.
Group Agency offers a new approach to that question and is relevant, therefore, to a range of fields from philosophy to law, politics, and the social sciences. Christian List and Philip Pettit argue that there really are group or corporate agents, over and above the individual agents who compose them, and that a proper approach to the social sciences, law, morality, and politics must take account of this fact. Unlike some earlier defences of group agency, their account is entirely unmysterious in character and, despite not being technically difficult, is grounded in cutting-edge work in social choice theory, economics, and philosophy.
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Christian List is professor of political science and philosophy at LSE.
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Publications
Propositionwise judgment aggregation: the general case
Dietrich, Franz and List, Christian (2012) Propositionwise judgment aggregation: the general case. Social choice and welfare . ISSN 1432-217X (In Press)
Group agency: the possibility, design, and status of corporate agents
List, Christian and Pettit, Philip (2011) Group agency: the possibility, design, and status of corporate agents. Oxford University Press, Oxford. ISBN 9780199591565
A model of non-informational preference change
Dietrich, Franz and List, Christian (2011) A model of non-informational preference change. Journal of theoretical politics, 23 (2). pp. 145-164. ISSN 0951-6298
Group communication and the transformation of judgments: an impossibility result
List, Christian (2011) Group communication and the transformation of judgments: an impossibility result. Journal of political philosophy, 19 (1). pp. 1-27. ISSN 0963-8016
The logical space of democracy
List, Christian (2011) The logical space of democracy. Philosophy & public affairs, 39 (3). pp. 262-297. ISSN 0048-3915
The theory of judgment aggregation: an introductory review
List, Christian (2011) The theory of judgment aggregation: an introductory review. Synthese, Online . ISSN 1573-0964
The theory of judgment aggregation: an introductory review
List, Christian (2011) The theory of judgment aggregation: an introductory review. Synthese, Online . ISSN 0039-7857
The theory of judgment aggregation: an introductory review
List, Christian (2011) The theory of judgment aggregation: an introductory review. Synthese, Online . ISSN 0039-7857
Where do preferences come from?
Dietrich, Franz and List, Christian (2010) Where do preferences come from? London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.
Independence and interdependence: lessons from the hive
List, Christian and Vermeule, Adrian (2010) Independence and interdependence: lessons from the hive. London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.
The aggregation of propositional attitudes: towards a general theory
Dietrich, Franz and List, Christian (2010) The aggregation of propositional attitudes: towards a general theory. In: Gendler, Tabor S. and Hawthorne, John, (eds.) Oxford studies in epistemology. Oxford studies in epistemology,3 (3). Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, pp. 215-234. ISBN 9780199584086
Disaggregating deliberation's effects: an experiment within a deliberative poll
Farrar, Cynthia and Fishkin, James S. and Green, Donald P. and List, Christian and Luskin, Robert C. and Levy Paluck, Elizabeth (2010) Disaggregating deliberation's effects: an experiment within a deliberative poll. British journal of political science, 40 (2). pp. 333-347. ISSN 1469-2112
Introduction to judgment aggregation
List, Christian and Polak, Ben (2010) Introduction to judgment aggregation. Journal of economic theory, 145 (2). pp. 441-466. ISSN 1095-7235
Majority voting on restricted domains
Dietrich, Franz and List, Christian (2010) Majority voting on restricted domains. Journal of economic theory, 145 (2). pp. 512-543. ISSN 1095-7235
Can there be a global demos? An agency-based approach
List, Christian and Koenig-Archibugi, Mathias (2010) Can there be a global demos? An agency-based approach. Philosophy and public affairs, 38 (1). pp. 76-110. ISSN 1088-4963
The impossibility of unbiased judgment aggregation
Dietrich, Franz and List, Christian (2010) The impossibility of unbiased judgment aggregation. Theory and decision, 68 (3). pp. 281-299. ISSN 0040-5833
The problem of constrained judgment aggregation
List, Christian and Dietrich, Franz (2010) The problem of constrained judgment aggregation. In: The present situation in the philosophy of science. Philosophy of science in a European perspective (1). Springer, Germany, pp. 125-139. ISBN 9789048191147
The theory of judgment aggregation: an introductory review
List, Christian (2010) The theory of judgment aggregation: an introductory review. LSE Choice Group working paper series, vol. 6, no. 1. The Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science (CPNSS), London School of Economics, London, UK.
The epistemology of special majority voting
List, Christian (2009) The epistemology of special majority voting. Social choice and welfare . ISSN 1432-217X (Submitted)
A model of non-informational preference change
Dietrich, Franz and List, Christian (2009) A model of non-informational preference change. PSPE working papers, 08-2009. Department of Government, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.
Judgment aggregation: a survey
List, Christian and Puppe, Clemens (2009) Judgment aggregation: a survey. In: Anand, Paul and Pattanaik, Prasanta and Puppe, Clemens, (eds.) The handbook of rational and social choice. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780199290420
Desire-as-belief revisited
Bradley, Richard and List, Christian (2009) Desire-as-belief revisited. Analysis, 69 (1). pp. 31-37. ISSN 0003-2638
Nonreductive physicalism and the limits of the exclusion principle
List, Christian and Menzies, Peter (2009) Nonreductive physicalism and the limits of the exclusion principle. Journal of philosophy, CVI (9). ISSN 0022-362x
Propositionwise judgment aggregation
Dietrich, Franz and List, Christian (2009) Propositionwise judgment aggregation. LSE Choice Group working paper series, vol. 5, no. 2. The Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science (CPNSS), London School of Economics, London, UK.
A reason-based theory of rational choice
Dietrich, Franz and List, Christian (2009) A reason-based theory of rational choice. LSE Choice Group working paper series, vol. 5, no. 6. The Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science (CPNSS), London School of Economics, London, UK.
The aggregation of propositional attitudes: towards a general theory
Dietrich, Franz and List, Christian (2008) The aggregation of propositional attitudes: towards a general theory. LSE Choice Group working paper series, vol. 4, no. 4. The Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science (CPNSS), London School of Economics, London, UK.
Desire-as-belief revisited
Bradley, Richard and List, Christian (2008) Desire-as-belief revisited. LSE Choice Group working paper series, vol. 4, no. 3. The Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science (CPNSS), London School of Economics, London, UK.
Judgment aggregation without full rationality
Dietrich, Franz and List, Christian (2008) Judgment aggregation without full rationality. Social choice and welfare, 31 (1). pp. 15-39. ISSN 1432-217X
A liberal paradox for judgment aggregation
Dietrich, Franz and List, Christian (2008) A liberal paradox for judgment aggregation. Social choice and welfare, 31 (1). pp. 59-78. ISSN 1432-217X
Opinion pooling on general agendas
Dietrich, Franz and List, Christian (2008) Opinion pooling on general agendas. Department of Government, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK. (Unpublished)
Which worlds are possible?: a judgment aggregation problem
List, Christian (2008) Which worlds are possible?: a judgment aggregation problem. Journal of philosophical logic, 37 (1). pp. 57-65. ISSN 0022-3611
Non-reductive physicalism and the limits of the exclusion principle
List, Christian and Menzies, Peter (2008) Non-reductive physicalism and the limits of the exclusion principle. Government Department, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK. (Unpublished)
Distributed cognition: a perspective from social choice theory
List, Christian (2008) Distributed cognition: a perspective from social choice theory. In: Albert, Max and Schmidtchen, Dieter and Voigt, Stefan, (eds.) Scientific competition: theory and policy. Conferences on New Political Economy (25). Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen, Germany, pp. 285-308. ISBN 9783161494130
Group decisions in humans and animals: a survey
Conradt, Larissa and List, Christian (2008) Group decisions in humans and animals: a survey. Philosophical transactions of The Royal Society B: biological sciences, 364 (1518). pp. 719-742. ISSN 0962-8436
Independence and interdependence in collective decision making: an agent-based model of nest-site choice by honeybee swarms
Seeley, Thomas D. and Elsholtz, Christian and List, Christian (2008) Independence and interdependence in collective decision making: an agent-based model of nest-site choice by honeybee swarms. Philosophical transactions of The Royal Society B: biological sciences, 364 (1518). pp. 755-762. ISSN 0962-8436
Judgement aggregation under constraints
Dietrich, Franz and List, Christian (2008) Judgement aggregation under constraints. In: Boylan, Thomas and Gekker, Ruvin, (eds.) Economics, rational choice and normative philosophy. Routledge, Abingdon, UK, pp. 111-123. ISBN 9780415435802
Majority voting on restricted domains
Dietrich, Franz and List, Christian (2007) Majority voting on restricted domains. Department of Government, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK. (Unpublished)
Judgment aggregation by quota rules: majority voting generalized
Dietrich, Franz and List, Christian (2007) Judgment aggregation by quota rules: majority voting generalized. Journal of theoretical politics, 19 (4). pp. 391-424. ISSN 1460-3667
Arrow's theorem in judgment aggregation
Dietrich, Franz and List, Christian (2007) Arrow's theorem in judgment aggregation. Social choice and welfare, 29 (1). pp. 19-33. ISSN 1432-217X
The impossibility of unbiased judgment aggregation
Dietrich, Franz and List, Christian (2007) The impossibility of unbiased judgment aggregation. Department of Government, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK. (Unpublished)
Judgment aggregation with consistency alone
Dietrich, Franz and List, Christian (2007) Judgment aggregation with consistency alone. Department of Government, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK. (Unpublished)
Group deliberation and the transformation of judgments: an impossibility result
List, Christian (2007) Group deliberation and the transformation of judgments: an impossibility result. PSPE working papers, 04-2007. Department of Government, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.
Group deliberation and the transformation of judgments: an impossibility result
List, Christian (2007) Group deliberation and the transformation of judgments: an impossibility result. PEPP, 26. Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.
What a dualist should say about the exclusion argument
List, Christian and Stoljar, Daniel (2007) What a dualist should say about the exclusion argument. Government Department, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK. (Unpublished)
Deliberation and agreement
List, Christian (2007) Deliberation and agreement. In: Rosenberg, Shawn W, (ed.) Deliberation, participation and democracy: can the people govern? Palgrave Macmillan, New York, USA, pp. 64-81. ISBN 9780230517356
Strategy-proof judgment aggregation
Dietrich, Franz and List, Christian (2007) Strategy-proof judgment aggregation. Economics and philosophy, 23 (3). pp. 269-300. ISSN 1474-0028
Aggregating causal judgements
Bradley, Richard and Dietrich, Franz and List, Christian (2006) Aggregating causal judgements. Department of Government, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK. (Unpublished)
When to defer to supermajority testimony – and when not
List, Christian (2006) When to defer to supermajority testimony – and when not. Government Department, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK. (Unpublished)
A conditional defense of plurality rule: generalizing May's theorem in a restricted informational environment
Goodin, Robert E and List, Christian (2006) A conditional defense of plurality rule: generalizing May's theorem in a restricted informational environment. American journal of political science, 50 (4). pp. 940-949. ISSN 1540-5907
Republican freedom and the rule of law
List, Christian (2006) Republican freedom and the rule of law. Politics, philosophy and economics, 5 (2). pp. 201-220. ISSN 1470-594X
Deliberation, single-peakedness, and the possibility of meaningful democracy: evidence from deliberative polls
List, Christian and Luskin, Robert C. and Fishkin, James S. and McLean, Iain (2006) Deliberation, single-peakedness, and the possibility of meaningful democracy: evidence from deliberative polls. PSPE working papers, 01-2006. Department of Government, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.
Special majorities rationalized
Goodin, Robert E and List, Christian (2006) Special majorities rationalized. British journal of political science, 36 (2). pp. 213-241. ISSN 1469-2112
The discursive dilemma and public reason
List, Christian (2006) The discursive dilemma and public reason. Ethics, 116 (2). pp. 362-402. ISSN 0014-1704
The impossibility of unbiased judgment aggregation
Dietrich, Franz and List, Christian (2006) The impossibility of unbiased judgment aggregation. London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.
Arrow’s theorem in judgment aggregation
Dietrich, Franz and List, Christian (2005) Arrow’s theorem in judgment aggregation. PEPP, 13. Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.
On the many as one : a reply to Kornhauser and Sager
List, Christian and Pettit, Philip (2005) On the many as one : a reply to Kornhauser and Sager. Philosophy and public affairs, 33 (4). pp. 377-390. ISSN 1088-4963
Strategy-proof judgment aggregation
Dietrich, Franz and List, Christian (2005) Strategy-proof judgment aggregation. PEPP, 9. Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.
The two-envelope paradox: an axiomatic approach
Dietrich, Franz and List, Christian (2005) The two-envelope paradox: an axiomatic approach. Mind, 114 (454). pp. 239-248. ISSN 0026-4423
Group knowledge and group rationality: a judgment aggregation perspective
List, Christian (2005) Group knowledge and group rationality: a judgment aggregation perspective. Episteme, 2 (1). pp. 25-38. ISSN 1742-3600
The probability of inconsistencies in complex collective decisions
List, Christian (2005) The probability of inconsistencies in complex collective decisions. Social choice and welfare, 24 (1). 3 -32. ISSN 1432-217X
Group agency and supervenience
List, Christian and Pettit, Philip (2005) Group agency and supervenience. The southern journal of philosophy, 44 (Sp . pp. 85-105. ISSN 0038-4283
Strategy-proof judgment aggregation
Dietrich, Franz and List, Christian (2005) Strategy-proof judgment aggregation. London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.
A simple proof of Sen's possibility theorem on majority decisions
Elsholtz, Christian and List, Christian (2005) A simple proof of Sen's possibility theorem on majority decisions. Elemente der Mathematik, 60 (2). pp. 45-56. ISSN 1420-8962
Framing as path dependence
Gold, Natalie and List, Christian (2004) Framing as path dependence. Economics and philosophy, 20 (2). pp. 253-277. ISSN 1474-0028
Social choice theory and deliberative democracy : a response to Aldred
Dryzek, John S. and List, Christian (2004) Social choice theory and deliberative democracy : a response to Aldred. British journal of political science, 34 (4). pp. 752-758. ISSN 1469-2112
On the significance of the absolute margin
List, Christian (2004) On the significance of the absolute margin. The British journal for the philosophy of science, 55 (3). pp. 521-544. ISSN 1464-3537
A model of jury decisions where all jurors have the same evidence
Dietrich, Franz and List, Christian (2004) A model of jury decisions where all jurors have the same evidence. Synthese (special section : knowledge, rationality & action), 142 (2). 175 -202. ISSN 1573-0964
A model of path-dependence in decisions over multiple propositions
List, Christian (2004) A model of path-dependence in decisions over multiple propositions. American political science review, 98 (3). pp. 495-513. ISSN 1537-5943
Aggregating sets of judgments : two impossibility results compared
List, Christian and Pettit, Philip (2004) Aggregating sets of judgments : two impossibility results compared. Synthese, 140 (1-2). 207 -235. ISSN 1573-0964
A liberal paradox for judgment aggregation
Dietrich, Franz and List, Christian (2004) A liberal paradox for judgment aggregation. London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.
Democracy in animal groups: a political science perspective
List, Christian (2004) Democracy in animal groups: a political science perspective. Trends in ecology and evolution, 19 (4). pp. 168-169. ISSN 0169-5347
Multidimensional welfare aggregation
List, Christian (2004) Multidimensional welfare aggregation. Public choice, 119 (1-2). pp. 119-142. ISSN 1573-7101
The impossibility of a Paretian republican? Some comments on Pettit and Sen
List, Christian (2004) The impossibility of a Paretian republican? Some comments on Pettit and Sen. Economics and philosophy, 20 (1). pp. 65-87. ISSN 1474-0028
"Deliberative polling" als methode zum erlernen des demokratischen sprechens
List, Christian and Sliwka, Anne (2004) "Deliberative polling" als methode zum erlernen des demokratischen sprechens. Zeitschrift für politik, 51 (1). pp. 87-105. ISSN 0044-3360
An epistemic free-riding problem?
List, Christian and Pettit, Philip (2004) An epistemic free-riding problem? In: Catton, Philip and Macdonald, Graham, (eds.) Karl Popper: critical appraisals. Routledge, Abingdon, UK, pp. 128-158. ISBN 9780415319713
The voting power approach : a theory of measurement. A response to Max Albert
List, Christian (2003) The voting power approach : a theory of measurement. A response to Max Albert. European Union politics, 4 (4). pp. 473-497. ISSN 1741-2757
Are interpersonal comparisons of utility indeterminate?
List, Christian (2003) Are interpersonal comparisons of utility indeterminate? Erkenntnis, 58 (2). pp. 229-260. ISSN 1572-8420
A possibility theorem on aggregation over multiple interconnected propositions
List, Christian (2003) A possibility theorem on aggregation over multiple interconnected propositions. Mathematical social sciences, 45 (1). pp. 1-13. ISSN 0165-4896
Social choice theory and deliberative democracy : a reconciliation
Dryzek, John S. and List, Christian (2003) Social choice theory and deliberative democracy : a reconciliation. British journal of political science, 33 (1). pp. 1-28. ISSN 1469-2112
Intradimensional single-peakedness and the multidimensional Arrow problem
List, Christian (2002) Intradimensional single-peakedness and the multidimensional Arrow problem. Theory and decision, 52 (3). pp. 287-301. ISSN 1573-7187
Aggregating sets of judgments : an impossibility result
List, Christian and Pettit, Philip (2002) Aggregating sets of judgments : an impossibility result. Economics and philosophy, 18 (1). pp. 89-110. ISSN 1474-0028
Two concepts of agreement
List, Christian (2002) Two concepts of agreement. The good society, 11 (1). pp. 72-79. ISSN 1089-0017
Epistemic democracy : generalizing the Condorcet jury theorem
List, Christian and Goodin, Robert E. (2001) Epistemic democracy : generalizing the Condorcet jury theorem. Journal of political philosophy, 9 (3). pp. 277-306. ISSN 1467-9760
A note on introducing a "zero-line" of welfare as an escape route from Arrow's theorem
List, Christian (2001) A note on introducing a "zero-line" of welfare as an escape route from Arrow's theorem. Pacific economic review, 6 (2). pp. 223-238. ISSN 1468-0106
A note on introducing a "zeroline" of welfare as an escape route from Arrow's theorem
List, Christian (2001) A note on introducing a "zeroline" of welfare as an escape route from Arrow's theorem. Pacific economic review, 6 (2). pp. 223-238. ISSN 1468-0106
Some remarks on the probability of cycles - Appendix 3 to 'Epistemic democracy: generalizing the Condorcet jury theorem'
List, Christian (2001) Some remarks on the probability of cycles - Appendix 3 to 'Epistemic democracy: generalizing the Condorcet jury theorem'. Journal of political philosophy, 9 (3). pp. 277-306. ISSN 1467-9760
A note on measuring preference structuration
List, Christian (2000) A note on measuring preference structuration. Nuffield College working papers in economics, 2000-W8. Nuffield College, Oxford, UK.
Optimality theory and the problem of constraint aggregation
List, Christian and Harbour, Daniel (2000) Optimality theory and the problem of constraint aggregation. MIT Working Papers in Linguistics and Philosophy, 1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, Cambridge, MA.
Multidimensional inequality measurement: a proposal
List, Christian (1999) Multidimensional inequality measurement: a proposal. Nuffield College working papers in economics, 1999-W27. Nuffield College, Oxford, UK.
Craig's theorem and the empirical underdetermination thesis reassessed
List, Christian (1999) Craig's theorem and the empirical underdetermination thesis reassessed. Disputatio, 7 . pp. 28-39. ISSN 0873-626X
Indeterminacy of translation reassessed: is the problem of translation an empirical matter?
List, Christian (1998) Indeterminacy of translation reassessed: is the problem of translation an empirical matter? Philosophical writings (9). pp. 23-38. ISSN 1361-9365