Andrea Petrou

Andrea Petrou is a PhD student in LSE's Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method. Her research seeks to answer various questions surrounding decision making both under moral uncertainty and under conditions in which our identity or our values might change over time. She is interested in answering both the question of how we ought rationally to choose under these conditions as well as how we ought morally to do so, exploring when these two questions converge or diverge in their answers. Her interests have also led her to think about how we should ethically relate to ourselves over time if our values and personal identity undergo change over time.

She is also currently working on a project with Dr Nikhil Venkatesh and Dr Askshath Jitendrenath seeking to find a solution to the problem of fanaticism for Expected Utility Theory, by discounting for the variance of an option’s outcome.

Research Interests

• Formal epistemology and decision theory
• Moral uncertainty and meta-normativity
• Ethics
• Metaethics
• Transformative experience and personal identity