Dr Katie Steele

Title

Lecturer in Philosophy

Research interests

Rational and social choice theory, philosophy of probability, environmental philosophy and decision-making

Publications

Publications include:

Articles

  • 'Modelling the Moral Dimension of Decisions', forthcoming in Noûs (with Mark Colyvan and Damian 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)
  • 'Distinguishing indeterminate belief from 'risk-averse' preferences', Synthese, 158(2):189-205, 2007.
  • 'Right Decisions or Happy Decision Makers?' Social Epistemology 21(4):349-368. 2007.
  • 'The Precautionary Principle: A new approach to public decision-making?' Law, Probability and Risk 5(1):19-31. 2006.

Book Chapters

  • 'Environmental Ethics and Decision Theory: Fellow Travellers or Bitter Enemies?' forthcoming in Handbook of the Philosophy of Science Volume 11: Philosophy of Ecology, B. Brown, K. de Laplante, and K. Peacock (eds.) North Holland/Elsevier (with Mark Colyvan)

Other Publications-Book Reviews

  • Review of Dan Egonsson's 'Preference and Information', forthcoming in Economics and Philosophy.
  • Review of Husain Sarkar's 'Group Rationality in Scientific Research' Notre-Dame Philosophical Reviews, online Oct 2007.
  • Review of Val Plumwood's 'The Ecological Crisis of Reason', Australasian Journal of Philosophy 83(1): 144-6. 2005.

 

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