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