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Professor Jon Elster FBA

Fellow type
International Fellow
Year elected
1991
Subjects
Philosophy
Sections
Philosophy
Website
http://philosophy.columbia.edu/directories/faculty/jon-elster

Current post

Robert K Merton Professor of Social Science, Columbia University

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Professor Helen Steward FBA

The metaphysics of agency and free will; causation and explanation; determinism, indeterminism and natural laws; minimal agents (e.g. plants and insects); the ontology of the mind.

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Professor James Warren FBA

James Warren's research interests include Presocratic philosophy, Plato, Aristotle, and Hellenistic philosophy and his publications range across themes in metaphysics, philosophy of mind and moral psychology, ethics, and political philosophy.

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