Prof Franz Dietrich
Professor in Economics (part-time)
| Job Title | Contact | Location |
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Professor in Economics
(part-time) |
F dot Dietrich at uea dot ac dot uk
Tel: +44 (0)1603 59 3338 |
Arts Building 3.50 |
Biography
Franz Dietrich is a part-time Professor of Economics in the School of Economics (and a Research Fellow of 1st Class at the CNRS in Paris). He works primarily on foundational questions about individual and social decisions, from normative, formal and methodological perspectives. His current research includes the theory of judgment aggregation and the modelling of reasons underlying choice. During his interdisciplinary career, he received a PhD in mathematics (2003, University of Oxford) and held positions at Konstanz University (2002-5, post-doc in the Philosophy, Probability & Modelling Group), Maastricht University (2005-8, Assistant Professor in the Economics Faculty) and the London School of Economics (2006-11, Nuffield Foundation Fellow in the Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science, later Ludwig Lachmann Fellow in the Philosophy Department). More information is available at his homepage www.franzdietrich.net.
Key Research Interests
Franz Dietrich has the following research interests, publications and working papers. More comprehensive information (including downloadable papers) is available on his homepage www.franzdietrich.net.
Current research interests
• Decision theory from various perspectives (normative, formal, foundational, etc.)
o individual decisions: reasons, motivations, unawareness, preference change, freedom of choice
o collective decisions: aggregation of judgments, preferences, probabilities, and other attributes
• Further interests: welfare economics, game theory, probability theory and statistics, classical and non-classical logic, models of terrorism prevention
Publications (as of August 2011)
• “A reason-based theory of rational choice” (with C. List), Noûs, forthcoming
• “Bargaining with endogenous disagreement: the extended Kalai-Smorodinsky solution” (with I. Bozbay and H. Peters), Games and Economic Behavior, forthcoming
• “The aggregation of propositional attitudes: towards a general theory” (with C. List), Oxford Studies in Epistemology 3: 215-234, 2010
• “A model of non-informational preference change” (with C. List), Journal of Theoretical Politics 23(2): 145-164, 2011
• “Un bilan interprétatif de la théorie de l’agrégation logique“ (with P. Mongin), Revue d’Economie Politique, forthcoming
• “Editorial”, The Reasoner 4(8): 117-20, 2010
• “The possibility of judgment aggregation on agendas with subjunctive implications”, Journal of Economic Theory 145(2): 603-638, 2010
• “Bayesian group belief”, Social Choice and Welfare 35(4): 595-626, 2010
• “The premise-based approach to judgment aggregation” (with P. Mongin), Journal of Economic Theory 145(2): 562-582, 2010
• “Majority voting on restricted domains” (with C. List), Journal of Economic Theory 145(2): 512-543, 2010
• “The impossibility of unbiased judgment aggregation” (with C. List), Theory and Decision 68: 281–299, 2010
• “The problem of constrained judgment aggregation” (with C. List), in: F. Stadler et al. (eds.), The Present Situation in the Philosophy of Science, Berlin: Springer, 2009
• “The premises of Condorcet’s jury theorem are not simultaneously justified”, Episteme – a Journal of Social Epistemology 5(1): 56-73, 2008
• “A liberal paradox for judgment aggregation” (with C. List), Social Choice and Welfare 31(1): 59-78, 2008
• “Judgment aggregation without full rationality” (with C. List), Social Choice and Welfare 31(1): 15-39, 2008
• "Judgment aggregation under constraints" (with C. List), in Economics, Rational Choice and Normative Philosophy, T. Boylan and R. Gekker (eds.), London (Routledge), 2008
• “Strategy-proof judgment aggregation” (with C. List), Economics and Philosophy 23: 269-300, 2007
• “Judgment aggregation by quota rules: generalizing majority voting” (with C. List), Journal of Theoretical Politics 19(4): 391-424, 2007
• “Arrow’s theorem in judgment aggregation” (with C. List), Social Choice and Welfare 29: 19-33, 2007
• “A generalised model of judgment aggregation”, Social Choice and Welfare 28: 529-65, 2007
• “General representation of epistemically optimal procedures”, Social Choice and Welfare 26(2): 263-283, 2006
• “Judgment aggregation: (im)possibility theorems”, Journal of Economic Theory 126(1): 286-298, 2006
• “On coherent sets and the transmission of confirmation” (with L. Moretti), Philosophy of Science 72(3): 403-424, 2005
• “The two-envelope paradox: an axiomatic approach” (with C. List), Mind 114: 239-248, 2005
• “How to reach legitimate decisions when the procedure is controversial”, Social Choice and Welfare 24: 363-393, 2005
• “A model of jury decisions where all jurors have the same evidence” (with Christian List), Synthese 142: 175-202, 2004. Reprinted in W. van der Hoek, Information, Interaction and Agency, Springer, 2005
• “The limiting distribution of the t-ratio for the unit root test in an AR(1)”, Econometrics Journal 4(2): 242-256, 2001
Selected working papers (as of August 2011)
• “Modelling change in individual characteristics: an axiomatic framework”
• “Reason-based rationalization” (with C. List)
• “Where do preferences come from?” (with C. List)
• “Independent opinions?” (with K. Spiekermann)
• “Epistemic democracy with defensible premises” (with K. Spiekermann)
• “Aggregation theory and the relevance of some issues to others”
• “A reason-based theory of rational belief” (with C. List)
• “Game theory with limited awareness”
• “Opinion pooling on general agendas” (with C. List)
• “Judgment aggregation with consistency alone” (with C. List)
• “Welfarism, preferencism, judgmentism”
• “Propositionwise judgment aggregation” (with C. List)
• “Conditionalisation unified” (with R. Bradley and C. List), 2008
• “Anti-terrorism politics and the risk of provoking”, 2008
• “Aggregating causal judgments” (with R. Bradley and C. List), 2006
Current research interests
• Decision theory from various perspectives (normative, formal, foundational, etc.)
o individual decisions: reasons, motivations, unawareness, preference change, freedom of choice
o collective decisions: aggregation of judgments, preferences, probabilities, and other attributes
• Further interests: welfare economics, game theory, probability theory and statistics, classical and non-classical logic, models of terrorism prevention
Publications (as of August 2011)
• “A reason-based theory of rational choice” (with C. List), Noûs, forthcoming
• “Bargaining with endogenous disagreement: the extended Kalai-Smorodinsky solution” (with I. Bozbay and H. Peters), Games and Economic Behavior, forthcoming
• “The aggregation of propositional attitudes: towards a general theory” (with C. List), Oxford Studies in Epistemology 3: 215-234, 2010
• “A model of non-informational preference change” (with C. List), Journal of Theoretical Politics 23(2): 145-164, 2011
• “Un bilan interprétatif de la théorie de l’agrégation logique“ (with P. Mongin), Revue d’Economie Politique, forthcoming
• “Editorial”, The Reasoner 4(8): 117-20, 2010
• “The possibility of judgment aggregation on agendas with subjunctive implications”, Journal of Economic Theory 145(2): 603-638, 2010
• “Bayesian group belief”, Social Choice and Welfare 35(4): 595-626, 2010
• “The premise-based approach to judgment aggregation” (with P. Mongin), Journal of Economic Theory 145(2): 562-582, 2010
• “Majority voting on restricted domains” (with C. List), Journal of Economic Theory 145(2): 512-543, 2010
• “The impossibility of unbiased judgment aggregation” (with C. List), Theory and Decision 68: 281–299, 2010
• “The problem of constrained judgment aggregation” (with C. List), in: F. Stadler et al. (eds.), The Present Situation in the Philosophy of Science, Berlin: Springer, 2009
• “The premises of Condorcet’s jury theorem are not simultaneously justified”, Episteme – a Journal of Social Epistemology 5(1): 56-73, 2008
• “A liberal paradox for judgment aggregation” (with C. List), Social Choice and Welfare 31(1): 59-78, 2008
• “Judgment aggregation without full rationality” (with C. List), Social Choice and Welfare 31(1): 15-39, 2008
• "Judgment aggregation under constraints" (with C. List), in Economics, Rational Choice and Normative Philosophy, T. Boylan and R. Gekker (eds.), London (Routledge), 2008
• “Strategy-proof judgment aggregation” (with C. List), Economics and Philosophy 23: 269-300, 2007
• “Judgment aggregation by quota rules: generalizing majority voting” (with C. List), Journal of Theoretical Politics 19(4): 391-424, 2007
• “Arrow’s theorem in judgment aggregation” (with C. List), Social Choice and Welfare 29: 19-33, 2007
• “A generalised model of judgment aggregation”, Social Choice and Welfare 28: 529-65, 2007
• “General representation of epistemically optimal procedures”, Social Choice and Welfare 26(2): 263-283, 2006
• “Judgment aggregation: (im)possibility theorems”, Journal of Economic Theory 126(1): 286-298, 2006
• “On coherent sets and the transmission of confirmation” (with L. Moretti), Philosophy of Science 72(3): 403-424, 2005
• “The two-envelope paradox: an axiomatic approach” (with C. List), Mind 114: 239-248, 2005
• “How to reach legitimate decisions when the procedure is controversial”, Social Choice and Welfare 24: 363-393, 2005
• “A model of jury decisions where all jurors have the same evidence” (with Christian List), Synthese 142: 175-202, 2004. Reprinted in W. van der Hoek, Information, Interaction and Agency, Springer, 2005
• “The limiting distribution of the t-ratio for the unit root test in an AR(1)”, Econometrics Journal 4(2): 242-256, 2001
Selected working papers (as of August 2011)
• “Modelling change in individual characteristics: an axiomatic framework”
• “Reason-based rationalization” (with C. List)
• “Where do preferences come from?” (with C. List)
• “Independent opinions?” (with K. Spiekermann)
• “Epistemic democracy with defensible premises” (with K. Spiekermann)
• “Aggregation theory and the relevance of some issues to others”
• “A reason-based theory of rational belief” (with C. List)
• “Game theory with limited awareness”
• “Opinion pooling on general agendas” (with C. List)
• “Judgment aggregation with consistency alone” (with C. List)
• “Welfarism, preferencism, judgmentism”
• “Propositionwise judgment aggregation” (with C. List)
• “Conditionalisation unified” (with R. Bradley and C. List), 2008
• “Anti-terrorism politics and the risk of provoking”, 2008
• “Aggregating causal judgments” (with R. Bradley and C. List), 2006
