List, Christian


Professor Christian List  

Department

Position held

Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science (CPNSS)

Department of Government

Professor of Political Science and Philosophy

Experience keywords:

formal epistemology; group agency; rational choice theory; social choice theory; philosophy of social science; theories of democracy and deliberation

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Professor List works in social choice theory, formal epistemology and the philosophy of social science, focusing on formal modelling in the social sciences, the aggregation of individual inputs into collective outputs and the interface between deliberation and decision-making.

Languages:

German [Spoken: Fluent, Written: Fluent]

Media experience:

Radio

Contact Points

LSE phone number:

+44 (0)20 7955 6785

Publications

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2013

List, Christian (2013) Free will, determinism, and the possibility of doing otherwise. Noûs, Online ISSN 0029-4624

Dietrich, Franz and List, Christian (2013) Reasons for (prior) belief in Bayesian epistemology. Synthese, 190 (5). pp. 787-808. ISSN 0039-7857

Dietrich, Franz and List, Christian (2013) A reason-based theory of rational choice. Noûs, 47 (1). pp. 104-134. ISSN 0029-4624

List, Christian and Luskin, Robert and Fishkin, James and McLean, Iain (2013) Deliberation, single-peakedness, and the possibility of meaningful democracy: evidence from deliberative polls. The journal of politics, 75 (1). pp. 80-95. ISSN 0022-3816

Dietrich, Franz and List, Christian (2013) Propositionwise judgment aggregation: the general case. Social choice and welfare, 40 (4). pp. 1067-1095. ISSN 1432-217X

2012

Dietrich, Franz and List, Christian (2012) Where do preferences come from? International journal of game theory, Online ISSN 0020-7276

List, Christian and Pettit, Philip (2012) Episteme symposium on group agency: replies to Gaus, Cariani, Sylvan, and Briggs. Episteme, 9 (03). pp. 293-309. ISSN 1742-3600

List, Christian (2012) The theory of judgment aggregation: an introductory review. Synthese, 187 (1). pp. 179-207. ISSN 0039-7857

2011

List, Christian and Pettit, Philip (2011) Group agency: the possibility, design, and status of corporate agents. Oxford University Press, Oxford. ISBN 9780199591565

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

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

List, Christian (2011) The logical space of democracy. Philosophy & public affairs, 39 (3). pp. 262-297. ISSN 0048-3915

2010

Dietrich, Franz and List, Christian (2010) Where do preferences come from? London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

List, Christian and Vermeule, Adrian (2010) Independence and interdependence: lessons from the hive. London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

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 University Press, Oxford, UK, pp. 215-234. ISBN 9780199584086

Menzies, Peter and List, Christian (2010) The causal autonomy of the special sciences. In: McDonald, Cynthia and McDonald, Graham, (eds.) Emergence in mind. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, pp. 108-129. ISBN 9780199583621

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

List, Christian and Polak, Ben (2010) Introduction to judgment aggregation. Journal of economic theory, 145 (2). pp. 441-466. ISSN 1095-7235

Dietrich, Franz and List, Christian (2010) Majority voting on restricted domains. Journal of economic theory, 145 (2). pp. 512-543. ISSN 1095-7235

Dietrich, Franz and List, Christian (2010) The impossibility of unbiased judgment aggregation. Theory and decision, 68 (3). pp. 281-299. ISSN 0040-5833

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

List, Christian and Dietrich, Franz (2010) The problem of constrained judgment aggregation. In: The present situation in the philosophy of science. Springer, Germany, pp. 125-139. ISBN 9789048191147

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

2009

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

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

List, Christian and Menzies, Peter (2009) Non-reductive physicalism and the limits of the exclusion principle. Journal of philosophy, CVI (9). pp. 475-502. ISSN 0022-362X

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

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

List, Christian and Menzies, Peter (2009) Nonreductive physicalism and the limits of the exclusion principle. Journal of philosophy, CVI (9). ISSN 0022-362x

Bradley, Richard and List, Christian (2009) Desire-as-belief revisited. Analysis, 69 (1). pp. 31-37. ISSN 0003-2638

2008

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

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

Dietrich, Franz and List, Christian (2008) Judgment aggregation without full rationality. Social choice and welfare, 31 (1). pp. 15-39. ISSN 1432-217X

Dietrich, Franz and List, Christian (2008) A liberal paradox for judgment aggregation. Social choice and welfare, 31 (1). pp. 59-78. ISSN 1432-217X

Dietrich, Franz and List, Christian (2008) Opinion pooling on general agendas. Department of Government, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

List, Christian (2008) Which worlds are possible?: a judgment aggregation problem. Journal of philosophical logic, 37 (1). pp. 57-65. ISSN 0022-3611

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

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. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen, Germany, pp. 285-308. ISBN 9783161494130

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

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

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

2007

Dietrich, Franz and List, Christian (2007) Majority voting on restricted domains. Department of Government, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

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

Dietrich, Franz and List, Christian (2007) Arrow's theorem in judgment aggregation. Social choice and welfare, 29 (1). pp. 19-33. ISSN 1432-217X

Dietrich, Franz and List, Christian (2007) The impossibility of unbiased judgment aggregation. Department of Government, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

Dietrich, Franz and List, Christian (2007) Judgment aggregation with consistency alone. Department of Government, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

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

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

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

Dietrich, Franz and List, Christian (2007) Strategy-proof judgment aggregation. Economics and philosophy, 23 (3). pp. 269-300. ISSN 1474-0028

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

2006

Bradley, Richard and Dietrich, Franz and List, Christian (2006) Aggregating causal judgements. Department of Government, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

List, Christian (2006) When to defer to supermajority testimony – and when not. Government Department, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

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

List, Christian (2006) Republican freedom and the rule of law. Politics, philosophy and economics, 5 (2). pp. 201-220. ISSN 1470-594X

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

Goodin, Robert E and List, Christian (2006) Special majorities rationalized. British journal of political science, 36 (2). pp. 213-241. ISSN 1469-2112

List, Christian (2006) The discursive dilemma and public reason. Ethics, 116 (2). pp. 362-402. ISSN 0014-1704

Dietrich, Franz and List, Christian (2006) The impossibility of unbiased judgment aggregation. London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

2005

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

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

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

Dietrich, Franz and List, Christian (2005) The two-envelope paradox: an axiomatic approach. Mind, 114 (454). pp. 239-248. ISSN 0026-4423

List, Christian (2005) The probability of inconsistencies in complex collective decisions. Social choice and welfare, 24 (1). pp. 3-32. ISSN 1432-217X

List, Christian (2005) Group knowledge and group rationality: a judgment aggregation perspective. Episteme, 2 (1). pp. 25-38. ISSN 1742-3600

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

List, Christian and Pettit, Philip (2005) Group agency and supervenience. The southern journal of philosophy, 44 (Sp pp. 85-105. ISSN 0038-4283

Dietrich, Franz and List, Christian (2005) Strategy-proof judgment aggregation. London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

2004

Gold, Natalie and List, Christian (2004) Framing as path dependence. Economics and philosophy, 20 (2). pp. 253-277. ISSN 1474-0028

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

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

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). pp. 175-202. ISSN 1573-0964

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

Dietrich, Franz and List, Christian (2004) A liberal paradox for judgment aggregation. London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

List, Christian and Pettit, Philip (2004) Aggregating sets of judgments : two impossibility results compared. Synthese, 140 (1-2). pp. 207-235. ISSN 1573-0964

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

List, Christian (2004) Multidimensional welfare aggregation. Public choice, 119 (1-2). pp. 119-142. ISSN 1573-7101

List, Christian (2004) Democracy in animal groups: a political science perspective. Trends in ecology and evolution, 19 (4). pp. 168-169. ISSN 0169-5347

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

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

2003

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

List, Christian (2003) The epistemology of special majority voting. Social choice and welfare.

List, Christian (2003) Are interpersonal comparisons of utility indeterminate? Erkenntnis, 58 (2). pp. 229-260. ISSN 1572-8420

List, Christian (2003) A possibility theorem on aggregation over multiple interconnected propositions. Mathematical social sciences, 45 (1). pp. 1-13. ISSN 0165-4896

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

2002

List, Christian (2002) Intradimensional single-peakedness and the multidimensional Arrow problem. Theory and decision, 52 (3). pp. 287-301. ISSN 1573-7187

List, Christian and Pettit, Philip (2002) Aggregating sets of judgments : an impossibility result. Economics and philosophy, 18 (1). pp. 89-110. ISSN 1474-0028

List, Christian (2002) Two concepts of agreement. The good society, 11 (1). pp. 72-79. ISSN 1089-0017

2001

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

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

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

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

2000

List, Christian (2000) A note on measuring preference structuration. Nuffield College working papers in economics, 2000-W8. Nuffield College, Oxford, UK

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

1999

List, Christian (1999) Multidimensional inequality measurement: a proposal. Nuffield College working papers in economics, 1999-W27. Nuffield College, Oxford, UK

List, Christian (1999) Craig's theorem and the empirical underdetermination thesis reassessed. Disputatio, 7 pp. 28-39. ISSN 0873-626X

1998

List, Christian (1998) Indeterminacy of translation reassessed: is the problem of translation an empirical matter? Philosophical writings, (9). pp. 23-38. ISSN 1361-9365

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Awards

Social Choice and Welfare Prize (2009); Philip Leverhulme Prize in Philosophy (2007); Nuffield Foundation New Career Development Fellowship (2005)

 

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