Summer 2007
18th - 20th July
DGL07: First Workshop in Decisions, Games and Logic
25th July
Kai Spiekermann (LSE)
Interacting Brains: The Dynamics of Beliefs among Deliberating Agents
1st August
Katie Steele (University of Sydney)
Consensus versus Compromise in Group Decision-Making
8th August
Franz Dietrich (Maastricht & LSE)
Models of Preference Change
13th September
Graham Oddie (Boulder)
The Compatibility of Content and Likeness Accounts of Verisimilitude
Summer Term 2007
25th April
Wulf Gaertner (Osnabrueck & LSE)
Equity, Responsibility and the Cultural Dimension
2nd May
Christian List (LSE)
Group Deliberation and the Transformation of Judgments: an Impossibility Result
9th May
Luc Bovens (LSE)
Dutch Books, Group Decision-Making, the Tragedy of the Commons and Strategic Jury Voting
16th May
Wlodek Rabinowicz (Lund)
Value Relations
23rd May
Richard Bradley (LSE)
Representing Preference Change
24th May
Bob Stalnaker (MIT)
Counterfactuals and Dispositions in Games
30th May
Mariam Thalos (Utah)
Motivating Anti-Individualistic Foundations for Decision Theory
6th June
Symposium on Transitivity of Preferences
Paul Anand (Open University)
The Rationality of Intransitive Preference: An Update
Alex Voorhoeve (LSE)
Transitivity and similarity-based decision making
13th June
Stuart Yasgur (LSE)
The Money Pump and the Justification of the Transitivity Condition
27th June
Jason Alexander (LSE)
From Each According to His Ability': The Evolution of Respect for Needs
Lent Term 2007
17th January
Franz Dietrich (Maastricht & LSE)
On the informational basis of social welfare judgments
24th January
Kai Spiekermann (LSE)
Mind-reading and morality: How translucent agents solve n-person prisoner's dilemmas
5th February
Francesco Guala (Essex)
Designing Markets (Philosophy and Public Policy Seminar Series)
14th February
Mauro Rossi (LSE)
The meaning and measurement of preference satisfaction
21th February
Wulf Gaertner (Osnabrueck)
To Be or not To Be Involved: A Questionnaire-Experimental View on Harsanyi's Utilitarian Ethics
28th February
James Joyce (Michigan, Ann Arbor)
Problems for Causal Decision Theory?
5th March
Serena Olsaretti (Cambridge)
The consequences of choice (Philosophy and Public Policy Seminar Series)
7th March
Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey (LSE)
Policy Shaping Politics: Monetary Policy Deliberations in Congressional Hearings
14th March
Naoki Yoshihara (Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo)
On Initial Conferment of Individual Rights
Michaelmas Term 2006
4th October
Franz Dietrich (Maastricht & LSE)
Possibilities and Restrictions in Collective Decision-Making
11th October
Alex Voorhoeve (LSE)
A Critical Examination of the Complaint Model
18th October
Christian List, Franz Dietrich and Richard Bradley (LSE)
Aggregating Causal Judgements
25th October
Ken Binmore (UCL)
Making Decisions in Large Worlds
9th November
Alvin I. Goldman (Rutgers)
Rationality of Judgment: Epistemological and Psychological Perspectives
13th November
Andrew Halpin (Swansea)
Disproving the Coase Theorem?
15th November
Clemens Puppe (Karlsruhe)
Diversity as the Metric of Opportunity
22nd November
Double session
Zsuzsanna Chappell (LSE)
Justifying Deliberative Democracy: Epistemic and Procedural Considerations
Kai Spiekermann (LSE)
Sorting out Your Neighbourhood: Prisoner's Dilemmas on Dynamic Networks
28th/29th November
Jon Elster (Ecole de France)
"Disinterestedness in Politics" Comte Lectures
4th December
David Estlund (Brown)
Democratic Authority: An Overview