Professor Richard Bradley

Richard Bradley is Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method at the London School of Economics and a Fellow of the British Academy. His research is concentrated in decision theory, formal epistemology and the theory of social choice, with particular focus on problems related to uncertainty, but he also works on conditionals, deliberation and the nature of chance.

His book, Decision Theory with a Human Face (Cambridge University Press, 2017) gives an account of decision making under conditions of severe uncertainty theory suitable for rational but bounded agents. Recently he has been doing work on policy decision making under scientific uncertainty applied to climate change and to natural catastrophes.

Research Interests

• Decision Theory
• Formal epistemology
• Social choice
• Scientific uncertainty
• Conditionals