Summer Term 2009
6th May
David Makinson (LSE)
Logical Questions behind the Lottery and Preface Paradoxes: Lossy Rules for Uncertain Inference
20th May
Hilary Greaves (Oxford)
Cognitive Decision Theory
28-30 May
Preference Change Workshop|
3rd June
Samir Okasha (Bristol)
Individuals, Groups, Fitness and Utility: Levels of Selection meets Social Choice Theory
8th - 9th June
CPNSS Graduate Conference "Philosophy of Probability II"|, with keynote speakers Alan Hájek (ANU), Katie Steele (LSE) and Jo Wolff (UCL)
15th - 17th June
DGL09: Third Workshop in Decisions, Games & Logic
24th June
Ivan Moscati (Bocconi and LSE)
Interactive and Common Knowledge in the State-Space Model
1st July
Jesus Zamora (Madrid)
Science: the Rules of the Game
Lent Term 2009
21st January
Richard Bradley (LSE)
Revising Incomplete Attitudes
28th January
Franz Dietrich (LSE and Maastricht) and Christian List (LSE)
Non-Informational Preference Change
4th February
Wulf Gaertner (Osnabrueck and LSE)
Reference-Dependent Rankings of Sets in Characteristics Space
11th February
Elliott Sober (University of Wisconsin - Madison)
What is Darwin's Theory?" or "Did Darwin Write the Origin Backwards?
12th-14th February
LSE-Groningen Workshop Part I and Comte Lectures|
18th February
No seminar
25th February
Philippe Mongin (CNRS and HEC Paris)
A Game-Theoretic Analysis of the Waterloo Campaign and Some Comments on the Analytic Narrative Project
4th March
Ivan Moscati (Bocconi and LSE)
Random behavior and the as-if defense of rational choice theory: experimental and computational evidence (with Paola Tubaro)
11th March
Joint Seminar with CDAM - LSE Department of Mathematics
Jacques Duparc (HEC Lausanne)
Infinite Games and the Foundations of Mathematics
with pre-talk: 14-00 till 15-30 (T206) on "Logic and Games"
18th March
Christian W. Bach (HEC Lausanne and LSE) and Conrad Heilmann (LSE)
Intrapersonal Connectedness and Backward Induction
25th March
Michael Root (Minnesota)
Belief Based on Testimony
Michaelmas Term 2008
13th September
Workshop on "Responsibility and Social Justice"|
15th September
Jan Libich (La Trobe)
Stochastic Timing of Moves in Games
1st October
Wlodek Rabinowicz (Lund)
Objective Consequentialism in an Indeterministic World
8th October
Natalie Gold (Edinburgh) and Daniel Harbour (Queen Mary)
Cognitive Primitives of Collective Intentions
15th October
Marc Fleurbaey (Paris Descartes / LSE)
Universal Social Orderings
22nd October
Katie Steele (LSE)
Assessing Rival Decision Theories in the Sequential-Choice Setting
29th October
Roman Frigg (LSE)
Models and Fiction
5th November
Franz Dietrich (Maastricht/LSE)
Preference Change in Terrorists
12th November
Harald Nax (Oxford)
Cooperation in Multiple Spheres of Interaction
19th November
No seminar
21st/22nd November
Workshop "The Economy of the Soul: Rational Choice and Moral Decision-Making"|
26th November
Anna Rubinchik (Colorado)
Intergenerational Equity and the Discount Rate for Cost-benefit Analysis (with Jean-François Mertens)
3rd December
Luc Bovens (LSE)
The Ethics of Nudge
10th December
Marc Fleurbaey (Paris Descartes / LSE) and Francois Maniquet (Louvain)
On fair income taxation