Professor Luc Bovens

Title

Professor of Philosophy

Research interests

Interests: Ethical Theory, Philosophy of Economics, Philosophy of Public Policy, Rational Choice, Philosophy of Probability.

Publications

Publications include:

Books

• Nancy Cartwright's Philosophy of Science. Forthcoming, Routledge, 2007 (Edited with Stephan Hartmann and Carl Hoefer).
• Bayesianische Erkenntnistheorie, Paderborn, Mentis, 2006. German translation of Bayesian Epistemology (OUP, 2003) (with Stephan Hartmann).
• Bayesian Epistemology, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2003 (with Stephan Hartmann)

Articles

• 'A Lockean Defense of Grandfathering Emission Rights' in: The Ethics of Global Climate Change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Ed. by Denis Arnold. (forthcoming)
• 'Monty Hall Drives a Wedge between Judy Benjamin and the Sleeping Beauty: a Reply to Bovens' Analysis (forthcoming) (with José Luis Ferreira)  
• 'Measuring Voting Power for Dependent Voters through Causal Models' Texts in Logic and Games – Logic and the Foundations of Game and Decision Theory (with Claus Beisbart) (forthcoming)
• 'A Dutch Book for Group Decision Making' In: Studies in Logic—Foundations of the Formal Sciences VI—Reasoning about Probabilities and Probabilistic Reasoning. (with Wlodek Rabinowicz) (forthcoming) 

2010

• 'Judy Benjamin is a Sleeping Beauty' Analysis, 70 (1), 23-6. 

2009

• 'Interview' In: Probability and Statistics: 5 Questions. Edited by Vincent Hendricks and Alan Hajek. Automatic Press,13-28.
• 'Condoms, HIV-Discordant Couples and the Doctrine of Double Effect' Journal of Medical Ethics, 35: 743-6.
• 'The Puzzle of the Hats' Synthese, February 2009 (with Wlodek Rabinowicz) Published online.
• 'Must I Be Forgiven?' Analysis, 69, 2, pp. 227-33 (2009)
• 'The Ethics of Nudge' In: Till Grüne-Yanoff and S.O. Hansson (2008) Preference Change: Approaches from Philosophy, Economics and Psychology, Berlin and New York: Springer, Theory and Decision Library A, Chapter 10. pp. 207-220. 

2008

• 'A Power Measure Analysis of Amendment 36 in Colorado' Public Choice, 134, 3-2, pp. 231-46 (2008) 
• 'Interview' In: Epistemology: 5 Questions.  Edited by Vincent Hendricks and Duncan Pritchard. Automatic Press, 2008.
• 'Vergiffenis in Elsschot's Het Been—Boorman vs Laarmans'  ('Forgiveness in Elsschot's Het Been—Boorman vs Laarmans' in Dutch).  Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte.  100, 4. (November 2008) 
• 'Apologies'  Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 108: 219-239 (2008)

2007

• 'How should the Weights be Set in a Federal Assembly?  A Welfarist Argument from Cartel Formation'
• Helen Bohse and Sven Walter (eds.) (2007). Selected Contributions to GAP.6, Sixth International Conference of the Society for Analytical Philosophy, Berlin, 11–14 September 2006. (CD-ROM) Paderborn: mentis. (with Claus Beisbart)
• 'Welfare Evaluations of Decision Rules for Boards of Representatives'Social Choice and Welfare, 29, (2007) pp. 581–608. (with Claus Beisbart)
• 'Factions in Rousseau's Du Contrat Social and Federal Representation' Analysis, 67, (2007), pp. 12-20 (with Claus Beisbart)
• 'Four Brides for Twelve Brothers – How to Dutch Book a Groups of Fully Rational Players' In: T. Ronnow-Rasmussion et.al. (eds.) Hommage a Wlodek—Philosophical Papers dedicated to Wlodek Rabinowicz  (2007)
• Bayesian Epistemology.  Special Issue of Synthese (2007)  (Edited with Stephan Hartmann)

2006

• 'The Rhythm Method and Embryonic Death' Journal of Medical Ethics, 32, (2006), pp. 355-56 This article is reviewed in the New York Times, June 13, 2006: http://tinyurl.com/kf9v2
• 'Democratic Answers to Complex Questions—an Epistemic Perspective' In: Synthese, 150, 1 (2006), pp. 131-53. (with Wlodek Rabinowicz)
• 'The Doctrinal Paradox and the Mixed-Motivation Problem' In: Analysis, 66 (2006), pp 35-8
• 'An Impossibility Result for Coherence Rankings'In: Philosophical Studies, 128 (2006), pp. 77-91 (with Stephan Hartmann)
• 'Welfare, Voting and the Constitution of a Federal Assembly'Forthcoming in: Reasoning, Rationality and Probability, Edited by M.C. Galavotti, R. Scazzieri, and P. Suppes (eds.) Stanford: CSLI Publications, 2006 (with Stephan Hartmann)
• Nancy Cartwright's Philosophy of Science.  Routledge, 2007 (Edited with Stephan Hartmann and Carl Hoefer) 

2005   

• 'Why There Cannot Be a Single Probabilistic Measure of Coherence' In:Erkenntnis, 63 (2005), pp. 361-74 (with Stephan Hartmann) (pre-publication)
•   'A Utilitarian Assessment of Alternative Decision Rules in the Council of Ministers ' In: European Union Politics, 6 (2005) pp. 395-418 (with Claus Beisbart and Stephan Hartmann)
•  'Coherence and the Role of Specificity: A Response to Meijs and Douven' In: Mind, 114, (2005) (with Stephan Hartmann)
•  'The Doctrinal Paradox' (in Dutch) In: Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor de Wijsbegeerte, 79 (2005), pp. 60-76 (with Wlodek Rabinowicz)
•  'Solving the Riddle of Coherence' In: Mind, 112 (2005), 601-34 (with Stephan Hartmann)

2004

•  'Voting Procedures for Complex Collective Decisions—an Epistemic Perspective'  In: Ratio Juris, 17 (2004), pp. 241-58 (with Wlodek Rabinowicz)    

2003

• 'Democracy and Argument: Tracking Truth in Complex Social Decisions' (with Wlodek Rabinowicz) In: A. van Aaken, C. List and C. Luetge (2003) Deliberation and Decision. Aldershot (Ashgate Publishing), pp. 133-157.
• Bayesian Epistemology, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2003 (with Stephan Hartmann)
• Bayesianische Erkenntnistheorie, Paderborn, Mentis, 2006.  German translation of Bayesian Epistemology (OUP, 2003) (with Stephan Hartmann)

2002

• 'Too Odd (not) to Be True: a Reply to Erik Olsson' In: British Journal of Philosophy of Science (with Branden Fitelson, Stephan Hartmann and Josh Snyder), 53, (2002), pp. 539-63 
• 'Believing More, Risking Less. On Coherence, Truth and Non-Trivial Extensions' (with Erik J. Olsson)  In: Erkenntnis, 57, (2002), pp. 137-150 
•  'Bayesian Networks and the Problem of Unreliable Instruments' (with Stephan Hartmann) In: Philosophy of Science, 69, (2002), pp. 29-73
• 'The Epistemology of Social Facts: The Evidential Value of Personal Experience versus Testimony' (with Steve Leeds) In: Social Facts and Collective Intentionality, edited by Georg Meggle, Haensel-Hohenhausen, Frankfurt a.M. (2002), pp. 35-43

2001

• 'Demokratisk Argumentation - Om Juryteoremets Tillaempning paa komplexa kollektiva beslut' (in Swedish)  In: Tidskrift för Politisk Filosofi, 2001/1, pp. 14-37 (with Wlodek Rabinowicz)
• 'Demokratisk och komplexa beslut – omigen' (in Swedish) In: Tidskrift för Politisk Filosofi, 2001/3, pp. 52-56 (with Wlodek Rabinowicz)  
• 'A Probabilistic Theory of the Coherence of an Information Set' In: Argument and Analysis – Selected Papers of the 4^th International Congress of the Society for Analytical Philosophy (2001)http://www.gap-im-netz.de/gap4Konf/Proceedings4/Proc.htm  pp. 195-206 (with Stephan Hartmann)
• 'How to Expand your Beliefs in an Uncertain World: a Probabilistic Model' In: Informatik Berichte 8/2001 – KI2001 Workshop.  Edited by G. Kern-Isberner, T. Lukasiewicz and E. Weydert, pp. 53-62 (with Stephan Hartmann)  
• 'Belief Expansion, Contextual Fit and the Reliability of Information Sources' (with Stephan Hartmann) In: Modeling and Using Context. Third International and Interdisciplinary Conference, CONTEXT 2001, Dundee, UK, July 2001.  Ed. by Akman, V. Bouquet, P., Thomason, R. and Young R.A. Springer, Berlin.
• 'Book Review: Weirich, P. Equilibrium and Rationality - Game Theory Revised by Decision Rules'  Cambridge University Press, 1998, pp. 235.In: Mind, 110, (2001), pp. 288-92

2000

• 'Coherentism, Reliability and Bayesian Networks' (with Erik J. Olsson) In: Mind, 109, (2000), pp. 685-719
• 'Coherence, Belief Expansion and Bayesian Networks' (with Stephan Hartmann) In: Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Non-Monotonic Reasoning, NMR'2000 Breckenridge, Colorado, USA, April 9-11, 2000.