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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• Toby Solomon (LMU): Libertarian Decision Theory

  30 November, 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm at Online via Zoom

• Atoosa Kasirzadeh (The University of Edinburgh): TBD

  7 December, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm at LAK 2.06

• Fabienne Peter (The University of Warwick): TBA

  8 March 2023, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm at LAK 2.06

• Andrew Reisner (Uppsala University): An ecumenical argument for pragmatic reasons for belief

  23 November, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm at LAK 2.06

• Choice Group Seminar: PhD Session with Lea Bourguignon and Somayeh Tohidi

  16 November, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm at LAK 2.06

• Choice Group Seminar: PhD Session with Bele and Kangyu

  9 November, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm at LAK 2.06

• Kevin Zollman (Carnegie Mellon University): Individual rationality and social pathology: the case of pluralistic ignorance

  26 October, 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm at Online via Zoom

• Helen Frowe (Stockholm University): Assisting the Assisters: The Comparative Claims of Afghan Refugees

  19 October, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm at LAK 2.06

• Adam Lovett (LSE): ‘Deontology and Contact with Value’

  12 October, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm at LAK 2.06

• Shlomi Segall (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem): How It Matters that One (Necessary) Person is Worse off than Another (Possible) Person

  5 October, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm at LAK 2.06

• Dario Krpan (LSE): ‘How to Increase the Amount of Knowledge That Psychological and Behavioural Science as a Discipline Produces?’

  28 September, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm at LAK 2.06

• Boris Babic (University of Toronto): ‘Resolute and Correlated Bayesians’

  21 September, 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm at Online via Zoom

• Olivier Roy (Bayreuth): “Deliberation, Coherent Aggregation, and Anchoring”

  15 June, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm at LAK 2.06