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Catherine Audard
Visiting Fellow and Chair of the Forum for European Philosophy
Interests: Kant, Hegel and continental philosophy. Anglo-American and political philosophy. Classical, “new” and neo-liberalisms, John Stuart Mill, problems of utilitarianism. Problems of contemporary citizenship and multiculturalism. The Rawls-Habermas debate.
Publications include: “Rawls and Habermas on Religion” in Habermas and Rawls: Disputing the Political, James Gordon Finlayson and Fabian Freyenhagen (eds), forthcoming, Routledge; “Un utilitarisme libéral est-il un oxymore ?” in Deux cents ans d’utilitarisme, M. Bozzo-Rey and E.Dardenne (eds), Presses universitaires de Rennes, forthcoming; Qu’est-ce que le libéralisme? Éthique. Politique. Société, Paris, Gallimard, 2009, 850 p. John Rawls, London, Acumen Press, 2007, 328 p. "Cultural Imperialism and The Law of Peoples" in Rex Martin and David Reidy (eds.), Rawls's Law of Peoples, Blackwell, 2006; " Socratic Citizenship: The Limits of Deliberative Democracy" in Sor-hoon Tan (ed.), Challenging Citizenship, Ashgate, 2005; John Rawls, Paris, PUF, 2004; Anthologie historique et critique de l’utilitarisme, 3 volumes, Paris, PUF, 1999.
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Ken Binmore (PhD, London)
Visiting Professor
Interests: Evolutionary game theory, bargaining theory, experimental economics, political philosophy, mathematics and statistics.
Publications include: Does Game Theory Work? The Bargaining Challenge, MIT Press, Cambridge MA, (2007); A Very Short Introduction to Game Theory, Oxford University Press, Oxford (2007); "Economic Man-or Straw Man? A Commentary on Henrich et al", Behavioral and Brain Science 28 (2006), 817-818; "Cooperation Should not be Assumed", Trends in Ecology and Evolution 21(9) (2006), 476-478 (with J. McNamara and A. Houston); "Evolution of Focal Points", Games and Economic Behavior 55 (2006), 21-42 (with L.Samuelson); Natural Justice, Oxford University Press, New York (2005).
Karin Edvardsson Björnberg (PhD, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm)
Marie Curie Fellow
Interests: Karin Edvardsson Björnberg holds a PhD in Philosophy from the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm and a Master of Laws from Uppsala University. Her main interests are in environmental philosophy, philosophy of public policy, philosophy of action, decision theory, philosophy of technology, ethics and public law. She is currently working in a research project on climate change adaptation policy.
Publications include: "Five areas of value judgement in local adaptation to climate change", Local Government Studies (forthcoming, with Sven Ove Hansson); "What relations can hold among goals, and why does it matter?", Crítica, Revista Hispanoamericana de Filosofía 41(121), 47 – 66, 2009; "Rational goals for the urban environment: a Swedish example", European Planning Studies 17(7), 1007 – 1027, 2009; "Utopian goals: four objections and a tentative defence", Philosophy in the Contemporary World 15(1), 138 – 153, 2009.; "When is a goal rational?", Social Choice and Welfare 24, 343 – 361, 2005 (with Sven Ove Hansson).
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Adam Caulton (PhD, Cambridge)
Jacobsen Research Fellow
Interests: Philosophy of physics, philosophy of science, philosophy of logic & language, metaphysics.
Publications include: "Symmetries and paraparticles as a motivation for structuralism", British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (forthcoming); "On Kinds of Indiscernibility in Logic and Metaphysics", British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (forthcoming).
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Franz Dietrich (DPhil, Oxford)
Ludwig M Lachmann Research Fellow
PhD-Thesis Supervision
Interests: Decision theory from various perspectives (normative, formal, foundational), both on the individual level (e.g. motivation, reasons, change, freedom, unawareness) and the social level (e.g. judgment aggregation). Also: welfare economics, game theory, probability theory and statistics, non-classical logic, mathematical models of terrorism prevention.
Publications include: "A reason-based theory of rational choice" (with C. List), Noûs, forthcoming; "The possibility of judgment aggregation on agendas with subjunctive implications", Journal of Economic Theory 145(2): 603-638, 2010; "Judgment aggregation by quota rules: generalizing majority voting" (with C. List), Journal of Theoretical Politics, forthcoming; "A generalised model of judgment aggregation", Social Choice and Welfare 28: 529-65, 2007; "On coherent sets and the transmission of confirmation" (with L. Moretti), Philosophy of Science 72(3): 403-424, 2005; "The two-envelope paradox: an axiomatic approach" (with C. List), Mind 114: 239-248, 2005
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Marc Fleurbaey (PhD)
Visiting Professor
Interests: normative economics, theories of justice, public economics
Publications include: Fairness, Responsibility, and Welfare|, Oxford University Press, 2008; "Assessing risky social situations", Journal of Political Economy, 2010, forthcoming; "Beyond the GDP: The quest for a measure of social welfare", Journal of Economic Literature 47: 1029-1075, 2009; "Unfair inequalities in health and health care", Journal of Health Economics 28: 73-90, 2009 (co-author: E. Schokkaert); "Do irrelevant commodities matter|?", Econometrica 75: 1143–1174, 2007 (co-author: K. Tadenuma); "Social choice and just institutions: New perspectives|", Economics and Philosophy 23: 15-43, 2007.
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Wulf Gaertner (PhD, Bonn)
Visiting Professor
Interests: Collective choice theory, empirical studies in social choice and the theory of human rationality.
Publications include: "Reference-Dependent Rankings of Sets in Characteristics Space", together with Yongsheng Xu. Forthcoming in Social Choice and Welfare 2010; "Individual Choices in a Non-Consequentialist Framework: A Procedural Approach", together with Yongsheng Xu. In: Arguments for a Better World - Essays in Honor of Amartya Sen, edited by K. Basu and R. Kanbur. Oxford University Press 2009; A Primer in Social Choice Theory. Revised Edition. Oxford University Press 2009; Domain Conditions in Social Choice Theory. Cambridge University Press 2001.
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Eric Martin (PhD, UCSD)
Research Officer, Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science
Interests: Philosophy and History of Biology; Environmental Ethics; Philosophy of Science; Science Policy; Science and Religion
Marie Milofsky (PhD, London)
Guest Teacher
Teaches on the course Reason, Knowledge and Values; Extended Essay
Interests: Political philosophy, ethical theory, rational choice and bargaining theory.
Publications include: "Shall We Be Resolute?", in Rationality and Society 2009 21: 337-357.
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Michael Redhead (PhD)
Visiting Professor, Co-Director of CPNSS|
Interests: Conceptual and methodological problems of modern theoretical physics with particular reference to quantum mechanics; Quantum field theory; Statistical mechanics and the theory of relativity.
Publications include: Objectivity, Invariance and Convention: Symmetry in Physical Science. Harvard University Press, 2007; "The Interpretation of Gauge Symmetry", M. Kuhlmann, H. Lyre and A. Wayne (eds.) Ontological Aspects of Quantum Field Theory. World Scientific 281-301, 2002; "Broken Bootstraps: The Rise and Fall of a Research Programme". Foundations of Physics 35:561-650, 2005; "Weinberg's Proof of the Spin-Statistics Theorem" (with M. Massimi), Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 34 621-650, 2003.
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Max Steuer
Visiting Fellow
Interests: Methodology of the social sciences.
Publications include: "The partially private UK sysem of air traffic control", Journal of Air Transport Management, vol. 16, 2010, pp. 26 - 35. The Scientific Study of Society, Kluwer, 2003; "A Hundred Years of Town Planning and the Influence of Ebenezer Howard", British Journal of Sociology 51(2): 377-86, 2000; "Timing-of-payment conventions for consumer purchases", chapter 9 of Regulation Strategies and Economic Policies, ed. by Daniel, Sami; Arestis, Philip, and Grahl, John, Edward Edgar, 1999, pp. 144-150; "Mathematical Sociology", (with Janet Holland), Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1969.
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George Zouros (PhD, London)
LSE Fellow (LSE100)
Lectures on the course Logic
Interests: Philosophical foundations of quantum mechanics.