Professor Christian List FBA

Philosophical foundations of the social sciences; political philosophy; theories of individual and collective decision-making
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Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2014
Subjects
Economics, Philosophy, Politics

Current post

LMU Munich Professor of Philosophy and Decision Theory

Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, London School of Economics Visiting Professor

Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy Co-Director

10-Minute Talks: Science hasn't refuted free will

4 Nov 2020 Professor Christian List FBA

In this talk, Christian List argues that far from undermining free will, science actually offers some arguments in its support.

Publications

Group Agency: The Possibility, Design, and Status of Corporate Agents

Christian List and Philip Pettit - Published in 2012 by Oxford University Press

Why Free Will Is Real

Christian List - Published in 2019 by Harvard University Press

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Thomas Piketty FBA

Historical and theoretical work on the interplay between economic development, the distribution of income and wealth, and political conflict. These works have led to emphasise the role of political, social and fiscal institutions in the historical evolution of income and wealth distribution

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Professor Rachel Griffith FBA

Applied economic analysis of the impact of government policy on economic performance; competition, innovation and productivity; firm pricing behaviour; consumer shopping patterns and nutrition

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Professor Jane Mansbridge FBA

Democratic theory; the problem of legitimate coercion, understood through theories of negotiation, representation, deliberation and deliberative systems, participation, political equality, everyday activism, feminism, and public recognition of collective

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