The Choice Group

The LSE Choice Group is a group of philosophers, political scientists and economists based mainly at LSE with a shared interest in the theory of rational decision making in individuals and groups and its application to economic, political and social questions. Choice Group seminars take place most Wednesday evenings during term time and are open to all.

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• Marc Fleurbaey (Paris School of Economics): “Measuring Well-Being and Lives Worth Living”

  3 March, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm at Online via Zoom

• Charles Mills (The Graduate Center, CUNY): TBA

  10 March, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm at Online via Zoom

• Zoë Johnson King (USC): TBA

  17 March, 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm at Online via Zoom

• Cristina Bicchieri (Penn): “In Science we (should) trust: expectations and compliance during the COVID-19 pandemic”

  31 March, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm at Online via Zoom

• Franz Dietrich (CNRS): “Fully Bayesian Aggregation”

  19 May, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm at Online via Zoom

• Melissa Fusco (Columbia): “Ratifiability in Modal Semantics”

  24 February, 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm at Online via Zoom

• PhD Student Session: Nick Makins and Nicolas Cote

  17 February, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm at Online via Zoom

• Jessie Munton (Cambridge): “Base rate neglect in the service of modal knowledge”

  10 February, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm at Online via Zoom

• Simon Huttegger (UC, Irvine): “Rethinking Convergence to the Truth”

  27 January, 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm at Online via Zoom

• Julia Staffel (Colorado): “Updating Incoherent Credences – Extending the Dutch Strategy Argument for Conditionalization”

  20 January, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm at Online via Zoom

• PhD Student Session: Sophie Kikkert and Dmitry Ananyev

  9 December 2020, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm at Online via Zoom

• Lara Buchak (Princeton): “How to Care about Risk, Inequality, and Caution”

  2 December 2020, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm at Online via Zoom

• Johanna Thoma (LSE): “Time for Caution”

  25 November 2020, 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm at Online via Zoom

• *POSTPONED* Alex Voorhoeve & Veronika Luptakova (LSE): “How Do People Balance Saving Some from Death against Saving Others from Lesser Burdens?”

  18 November 2020, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm at Online via Zoom

• Jonathan Birch (LSE): “Science and policy in extremis: the UK’s initial response to COVID-19”

  11 November 2020, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm at Online via Zoom