After finishing a bachelors degree from the University of Iceland in 2008, I did an MSc degree in Philosophy and Public Policy at the LSE, and subsequently an MPhil/PhD in Philosophy, also from the LSE. I defended my PhD theses, called "Decision theory and counterfactual evaluations", in May 2014. Since March 2014 I have been a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at College d'etudes mondiales in Paris, where I am associated with Marc Fleurbaey's Chair on Welfare Economics and Social Justice and the Franco-Swedish Program in Philosophy and Economics.
Dates of Visit: September 2014 - July 2015
Email: hlynur.orri@gmail.com
Project Description: From September 2014 I will mostly be working on my research project "The (dis)value of risks and chances", which is supported by the AXA Research Fund. The project examines, both from a formal and philosophical perspective, the orthodox economic view on risks and chances, as well as rational belief formation and decision-making in light of knowledge of objective probabilities, In particular, I try to defend the view that contrary to a common assumptions in rational choice theory, it is not irrational to take chances and risks to have more than just instrumental (dis)value, and I argue that contrary to common assumptions in consequentialist ethics, chances and risks often have intrinsic value