Interests: Hegel and continental philosophy, phenomenology and existentialism, Anglo-American moral and political philosophy, problems of contemporary citizenship and multiculturalism.
Selected Publications:
Qu'est-ce que le liberalisme? Ethique. Politique. Societe. Paris, Gallimard, 2009.
John Rawls. London, Acumen Press, 2007.
"John Rawls et les alternatives liberales à la laicite", Revue Raisons politiques, vol. 2, n°34, Paris, Presses de Science Po, septembre 2009.
"Qu'est-ce que l'autorité morale?" in A. Compagnon (ed.), L'autorite, Paris, Ed. Odile Jacob, 2008, p.287-308.
Interests: History and philosophy of science (especially physics and economics), causal inference, objectivity in science.
Selected Publications:
Hunting Causes and Using Them: Approaches in Philosophy and Economics. Cambridge University Press, 2007
Cartwright, Nancy D. 'Counterfactuals in Economics: A Commentary', Causation and Explanation (Topics in Contemporary Philosophy), O'Rourke et al (eds.) 2007, MIT Press. Also in Nancy Carwright's Hunting Causes and Using Them.
'From Metaphysics to Method: Comments on Manipulability and the Causal Markov Condition', British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Vol. 57, 2006.
'Causation: One Word, Many Things', Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, 2004, 71: 805-819. Also as Causality: Metaphysics and Methods Technical Report CTR 07-03, CPNSS, LSE. Also in Nancy Cartwright's Hunting Causes and Using Them.
Interests: philosophy of physics (general relativity, quantum field theory on curved spacetime, quantum gravity, classical mechanics, thermodynamics); philosophy of science (semantics of scientific theories, scientific knowledge and reasoning, causality, realism and instrumentalism, ontology, individuality and identity); ancient philosophy (Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics); moral psychology; philosophy of language; philosophical logic; history of analytic philosophy and Logical Empiricism; history of physics; 19th century German philosophy; the British Empiricists.
Selected Publications:
"On the Existence of Spacetime Structure", Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, forthcoming pending revisions, 2009.
"General Relativity Needs No Interpretation", Philosophy of Science, 76 (January 2009) pp. 44–72
"Against the Excesses of Quantum Gravity: A Plea for Modesty'", Philosophy of Science 68(2001):S424--S441
"The Analysis of Singular Spacetimes", Philosophy of Science 66(1999):S119--S146
Interests: Decision theory, normative and formal, with a focus on reasons, motivations and preference change; social choice theory, particularly judgment aggregation; welfare economics; logic; probability; mathematical models of terrorism prevention.
Selected Publications:
"The possibility of judgment aggregation on agendas with subjunctive implications", Journal of Economic Theory, forthcoming.
"The aggregation of propositional attitudes: towards a general theory" (with Christian List), Oxford Studies in Epistemology, forthcoming.
"A generalised model of judgment aggregation", Social Choice and Welfare 28: 529-65, 2007.
"On coherent sets and the transmission of confirmation" (with Luca Moretti), Philosophy of Science 72(3): 403-424, 2005.
Interests: General Philosophy of Science and Philosophy of Physics
Selected Publications:
'Models and Fiction', forthcoming in Synthese.
'Humean Chance in Boltzmannian Statistical Mechanics', forthcoming in Philosophy of Science (Proceedings).
'Probability in GRW Theory', Studies in the History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 38, 2007, 371-389, with Carl Hoefer.
'The Ergodic hierarchy, randomness and chaos', Studies in the History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 37, 2006, 661-691 (with Joseph Berkovitz and Fred Kronz) .
Interests:Collective choice theory, empirical studies in social choice and the theory of human rationality.
Selected Publications:
"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.
Interests: Social choice theory; Political theory, formal and normative; Philosophy of science and social science; Theories of democracy and deliberation
Selected Publications:
Strategy-proof judgment aggregation (with Franz Dietrich), Economics and Philosophy 23(3): 269-300, 2007
Arrow's theorem in judgment aggregation (with Franz Dietrich), Social Choice and Welfare 29(1): 19-33, 2007
A Conditional Defense of Plurality Rule: Generalizing May's Theorem in a Restricted Informational Environment (with Robert E. Goodin), American Journal of Political Science 50(4): 940-949, 2006
The Discursive Dilemma and Public Reason, Ethics 116(2): 362-402, 2006
Interests: Logic and its relations with other disciplines, particularly philosophy and computer science. Recent research: logic of belief change, nonmonotonic reasoning, input/output logics and the logic of normative systems, logical friendliness. Current research: qualitative versus quantitative analyses of uncertain reasoning, relevance criteria for belief change operations.
Selected Publications:
David Makinson, Sets, Logic and Maths for Computing. London: Springer, 2008. ISBN 978-1-84628-844-9).
George Kourousias and David Makinson, 'Parallel interpolation, splitting, and relevance in belief change' Journal of Symbolic Logic 72, 2007, pp 994-1002.
James Hawthorne and David Makinson, ‘The quantitative/qualitative watershed for rules of uncertain inference’ Studia Logica 86, 2007 249-299.
David Makinson, ‘Friendliness and sympathy in logic’ Logica Universalis. 2nd edition, ed. J.-Y. Beziau, Basel: Birkhauser Verlag, 2007, pp 195-224.
Interests: Evolutionary Game Theory, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Biology
Selected Publications:
‘Indirect Reciprocity and the Evolution of Moral Signals’. Biology and Philosophy (2009)
‘Plasticity and Language: An Example of the Baldwin Effect?’ (with Kevin J. S. Zollman). Philosophical Studies (forthcoming, 2009)
‘Evolutionary dynamics of Lewis signaling games: signaling systems vs. partial pooling’ (with Simon Huttegger, Brian Skyrms and Kevin J. S. Zollman). Synthese (2009)
‘Evolution of Cooperation in the Centipede Game with Finite Populations’. Philosophy of Science (2008)
Interests: Rational and social choice theory, philosophy of probability, environmental philosophy & decision-making.
Selected Publications:
‘The Precautionary Principle: A new approach to public decision-making?’ Law, Probability and Risk 5(1):19–31. 2006.
‘Distinguishing indeterminate belief from ‘risk-averse’ preferences’, Synthese, 158(2):189–205, 2007.
‘Modelling the Moral Dimension of Decisions’, forthcoming in Noûs (with Mark Colyvan and Damien Cox).
Uses and Misuses of Multicriteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) in Environmental Decision-Making', forthcoming in Risk Analysis (with Y. Carmel, J. Cross and C. Wilcox)
"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.
Interests: Political Philosophy, Rational and Social Choice Theory, Moral Philosophy.
Selected Publications:
'Preference change and interpersonal comparisons of welfare'. Serena Olsaretti (ed.) Preferences and Well-being, Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement to Philosophy 81(Supplement 59):265-79, 2006
'Transitivity, the Sorites paradox and Similarity-Based Decision-Making', Erkenntnis 64:101-14, 2006 (with Ken Binmore)
Interests: Philosophy of science, especially theory-change in science; 19th century optics; philosophy and methodology of medicine, especially issues concerned with the scope and limits of scientific method in medicine.
Selected Publications:
'Miracles and Models: Why reports of the death of Structural Realism may be exaggerated', Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements, Volume 82, Supplement 61, October 2007, pp 125-154
'Why There's No Cause to Randomize', The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 2007; 58(3):451-488
'History and Theory-Confirmation' in J. Worrall and C. Cheyne (eds) Rationality and Reality: Conversations with Alan Musgrave. Pp.31-61 Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2006
'Prediction and the 'periodic law': a rejoinder to Barnes', Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 2005; 36: 817-826
