Talks

Upcoming:

  • TBA, Workshop on Strong Reciprocity and Welfare, Universität zu Köln (October 2023)
  • TBA, Workshop “The Dismal Shape of Things to Come? – Evaluating Climate Economics as a Guide to Democratic Decision-making”, Lund University (September 2023)
  • “Risk Imposition by Artificial Agents: The Moral Proxy Problem”, keynote lecture at the 1st Bayreuth Summer School in Philosophy & Computer Science (July 2023)
  • “Some Mistakes are Irreducibly Diachronic”, Workshop on Issues in Dynamic Decision Theory, Universität Konstanz (July 2023)
  • Comments, Author-Meets-Critics Session on Chrisoula Andreou’s Choosing Well, CRE Montréal (June 2023)
  • “The Futility of Preference Purification”, invited talk at the Fourteenth Annual Chambers Philosophy Conference, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (May 2023)

Past: 

  • “Against Preference-based Instrumental Rationality”, Workshop on “Rational Choice and First-Person Experience”, Munich Centre for Mathematical Philosophy (April 2023)
  • “Economics, Policy and Democracy”, Online Seminar Series Rethinking the Serviceability of Economics to Society, University of Helsinki (April 2023)
  • “Social Science, Policy and Democracy”, Moral Sciences Club, University of Cambridge (February 2023)
  • “Big Data and Epistemic Equality: The Case of Inflation Measurement” Data Science Institute Showcase, LSE (December 2022)
  • “Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Risky Health Interventions: Moving Beyond Risk Neutrality”, Formal and Experimental Philosophy (“FAX 2”) Workshop, University of Pittsburgh (October 2022)
  • “The Democratic Challenge for Policy-Relevant Social Science”, Ethics and Public Policy Workshop, PPE Society, online (September 2022)
  • “What is risk aversion? Recent work in philosophical decision theory and its relevance to economics”, Lecture at the INEM Summer School, Lake Como (June 2022)
  • “The Democratic Challenge for Policy-Relevant Social Science”, Workshop on aggregation, rational choice, and agency over the lifecycle, Tennessee (June 2022)
  • “Pure Risk Paternalism in Welfare Economics: what it is, and whether and how to avoid it”, invited talk at the Welfare Economics and Economic Policy Seminar Series, online (April 2022)
  • “Risk Imposition by Artificial Agents: The Moral Proxy Problem”,  invited talk at the Center for Humans and Machines, Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin (April 2022)
  • “What’s wrong with pure risk paternalism?”, Visiting Speaker Seminar at the University of Stirling (February 2022)
  • “What’s wrong with pure risk paternalism?”, invited talk at the Pittsburgh Formal Epistemology Workshop, online (February 2022)
  • “What’s wrong with pure risk paternalism?”, invited talk at the Munich Centre for Mathematical Philosophy (February 2022)
  • Panelist, “The Concept of Rationality in Philosophy, Politics & Economics”, PPE Society Annual Meeting, New Orleans (February 2022)
  • “Pure Risk Paternalism in Welfare Economics: what it is, and whether to avoid it” Philosophy Visiting Speakers Research Seminar, University of Reading (January 2022)
  • “The Positive and Normative in Behavioural Welfare Economics”, invited talk at the CIPH seminar series on the Positive and the Normative in Economics, Paris (January 2022)
  • “Some Mistakes are Irreducibly Diachronic”, panel participant “What is a Mistake?”, INEM session at ASSA annual meeting, Boston (January 2022)
  • “What’s wrong with pure risk paternalism?”, Philosophy Visiting Speakers Research Seminar, University of Southampton (November 2021)
  • “Pure Risk Paternalism in Welfare Economics: what it is, and whether and how to avoid it”, keynote lecture at the 15th Conference of the International Network for Economic Method, Arizona State University (November 2021)
  • Panel on Computational Ethics, Absolutely Interdisciplinary Conference, Schwartz Reisman Institute, University of Toronto (November 2021)
  • “Pure Risk Paternalism in Welfare Economics: what it is, and whether and how to avoid it”, keynote lecture at the Philosophy Exchange Philosophy of Science Graduate Conference, LSE (October 2021)
  • “What’s wrong with pure risk paternalism?”, Philosophy Colloquium at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville (October 2021)
  • “What’s wrong with pure risk paternalism?”, keynote lecture at P&E conference “Responsibility and Cooperation in Times of Uncertainty”, Vienna (September 2021)
  • “On the Possibility of an Anti-Paternalist Behavioural Welfare Economics”, British Society for the Philosophy of Science Annual Conference, University of Kent (July 2021)
  • “What’s wrong with pure risk paternalism?”, invited talk at the 7th Oxford Workshop on Global Priorities Research, Global Priorities Institute, University of Oxford (June 2021)
  • “Weighing the costs and benefits of public policy: On the dangers of single metric accounting”, Beveridge 2.0 Symposium on Wellbeing, LSE (May 2021)
  • “Merely Means Paternalist? Prospect Theory and ‘Debiased’ Welfare Analysis”, invited talk at the Roots of Responsibility Conference on Risk and Recklessness, University College London (April 2021)
  • “Risk Imposition by Artificial Agents: The Moral Proxy Problem”, invited talk at the University of York philosophy research seminar (March 2021)
  • “Against Preference-based Instrumental Rationality”, invited talk at the Institutskolloquium, Leibniz Universität Hannover (December 2020)
  • “Time for Caution”, LSE Choice Group “international edition” (joined with Bristol, Michigan-Ann Arbor and UC Irvine, November 2020)
  • “Merely Means Paternalist? Prospect Theory and ‘Debiased’ Welfare Analysis”, invited talk in the ‘Perspectives on Science’ seminar series, TINT Helsinki (September 2020)
  • “Risk Imposition by Artificial Agents: The Moral Proxy Problem”, invited online talk at the conference “Global Perspectives on Responsible AI”, Freiburg (June 2020)
  • “Risk Imposition by Artificial Agents: The Moral Proxy Problem”, invited online talk at the Global Priorities Institute, Oxford (June 2020). Video available here.
  • “Merely Means Paternalist? Prospect Theory and ‘Debiased’ Welfare Analysis”, invited talk at the EIPE Seminar, Erasmus University Rotterdam (April 2020)
  • “On Money Pumpers and Self-Torturers: Is it Rational to have Cyclical Preferences?”, invited talk for the Oxford University Philosophy Society (January 2020)
  • “Time for Caution?”, invited talk at the St Andrews Philosophy Club (November 2019)
  • “Merely Means Paternalist? Prospect Theory and ‘Debiased’ Welfare Analysis”, LSE Choice Group, London (October 2019)
  • “Prospect Theory and ‘Debiased’ Welfare Analysis: Merely Means Paternalist?”, invited talk at the CEAR Workshop “Prospect Theory as a Model of Risky Choice: Descriptive and Normative Assessments”, Cork (October 2019)
  • “Is there anything wrong with the rationality assumption in mainstream economics?”, invited lecture for the Post-Crash Economics Society, Manchester (October 2019)
  • “Risk Aversion and Rationality: Dilemmas for the Design of Autonomous Artificial Agents”, invited talk at the Third Workshop on Decision Theory and the Future of Artificial Intelligence, Australian National University, Canberra (August 2019).
  • “Philosophy of Economics”, lecture series at the LSE-Tsinghua Summer School, Tsinghua University, Beijing (August 2019).
  • “Against Preference-Based Instrumental Rationality”, keynote lecture at Progic 2019 (The Ninth Workshop on Combining Probability and Logic), Frankfurt (July 2019)
  • “Folk Psychology and the Interpretation of Decision Theory”, invited talk at the Conference on Knowledge and Decision, Hamburg (June 2019)
  • “What would SuperReasoner do? On hypothetical idealised choice as a standard for behavioural welfare economics”, invited talk at the Workshop on the Normative Implications of Behavioural Economics, LSE (June 2019)
  • “Decision Theory, Folk Psychology, and the Interpretation of Preference”, invited talk at the Workshop on the Ontology of Economics, Neuchâtel (May 2019)
  • “Risk Aversion and Rationality: Dilemmas for the Design of Autonomous Artificial Agents”, invited talk at the Humanities and Social Sciences Colloquium at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (April 2019)
  • “Decision Theory, Folk Psychology, and the Interpretation of Preference”, invited talk at Royal Holloway (February 2019)
  • “Decision Theory, Folk Psychology, and the Interpretation of Preference”, invited talk at the Wiener Kolloquium Analytische Philosophie (January 2019)
  • “Decision Theory, Folk Psychology, and the Interpretation of Preference”, invited talk at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (December 2018)
  • “Time for Caution?”, invited talk at the Institut für Staatswissenschaft & Rechtsphilosophie, Universität Freiburg (December 2018)
  • “Decision Theory, Folk Psychology, and the Interpretation of Preference”, Workshop on Preference-based Modelling in Economics, LSE (November 2018)
  • “In Defence of Revealed Preference Theory”, Joint European Network for Philosophy of Social Science/Philosophy of Social Science Roundtable Conference in Hannover (August/September 2018)
  • “In Defence of Revealed Preference Theory”, British Society for the Philosophy of Science Annual Conference, Oxford (July 2018)
  • “Instrumental Rationality Without Separability”, Foundations of Utility and Risk Conference in York (June 2018)
  • “Preference Cycles and the Requirements of Instrumental Rationality”, invited talk at the Workshop in Practical Philosophy, University of York (June 2018)
  • “Preference Cycles and the Requirements of Instrumental Rationality”, keynote lecture at think! Student Conference in Analytic Philosophy in Bayreuth (June 2018)
  • “Instrumental Rationality Without Separability”, invited talk at the Foundations of Normative Decision Theory Workshop in Oxford (June 2018)
  • “Instrumental Rationality Without Separability”, Canadian Philosophical Association Annual Congress in Montréal (June 2018)
  • “Instrumental Rationality Without Separability”, invited talk at Early Lunch Philosophy at the University of Konstanz (April 2018)
  • “Instrumental Rationality Without Separability”, invited talk at the Workshop on Attitudes to Risk, Hebrew University Jerusalem (March 2018)
  • “Time for Caution?”, invited talk at the Workshop in Practical Philosophy, Saarland University (January 2018)
  • “Temptation and Preference-Based Instrumental Rationality”,invited talk at the Rationality and Self-Control Workshop, Texas A&M University (May 2017)
  • “Is Precaution Irrational?”, invited talk at the Workshop ‘Why be cautious? On the Justification of Precautionary Principles’, University of Bern (May 2017)
  • “Temptation and Preference-Based Instrumental Rationality”, invited talk at the Workshop on Shared and Temporally Extended Agency, Center for Subjectivity Research, University of Copenhagen (April 2017)
  • “In Defence of Preference Cycles”, invited Popper Seminar, London School of Economics (April 2017)
  • “In Defence of Preference Cycles”, invited talk at the Formal Epistemology Gathering, University of Bristol (April 2017)
  • “Preference-Based Instrumental Rationality and the Money Pump Argument”, keynote lecture at the EIPE anniversary conference, Erasmus University Rotterdam (March 2017)
  • “Temptation and Preference-Based Instrumental Rationality”, invited talk at the Moral Philosophy Seminar, University of Oxford (February 2017)
  • “Temptation and Preference-Based Instrumental Rationality”, invited RIP lecture at the University of Kent (February 2017)
  • “Risk Aversion and the Long Run”, invited talk at the London Judgment and Decision Making Group, University College London (November 2016)
  • “Temptation and Preference-Based Instrumental Rationality”, invited talk at the Departmental Research Seminar, University of Bristol Philosophy Department (November 2016)
  • “A Blessing or a Curse? On the Potential Unfalsifiability of Microeconomic Theory”, keynote at the LSESU-UCL Economics Conference, University College London (November 2016)
  • “Risk Aversion and the Long Run”, invited talk at the Cambridge Philosophy of Science Seminar (October 2016)
  • “Risk Aversion and the Long Run”, SLACRR: Saint Louis Annual Conference on Reasons and Rationality (May 2016)
  • “Risk Aversion and the Long Run”, Meeting of the Society for Exact Philosophy in Miami (May 2016)
  • “Risk Aversion and the Long Run”, invited talk at the Varieties of Agency Workshop at Stanford University (February 2016)
  • “Social Risk Aversion and the Long Run”, Workshop on the Ethics of Social Risk in Montreal (September 2015)
  • Invited comments on Temkin, Larry: “Rationality with Respect to People, Places, and Times”, Belief, Action, and Rationality over Time Conference in Madison (September 2015)
  • “Temptation, Regret, and Risk-Taking”, Joint Sessions of the Aristotelian Society and Mind Association in Warwick (July 2015)
  • “Bargaining and the Impartiality of the Social Contract”, Formal Ethics conference in Bayreuth (July 2015)
  • “Temptation, Regret, and Risk-Taking”, Meeting of the Canadian Philosophical Association in Ottawa (May-June 2015)
  • “Discounting an Uncertain Future: The Tyranny of the Worst Case”, Meeting of the Canadian Society for the Study of Practical Ethics in Ottawa (May-June 2015)
  • “Bargaining and the Impartiality of the Social Contract”, Meeting of the Society for Exact Philosophy in Hamilton (May 2015)
  • “Credible Worlds and the Hidden Thought Experiments of Economic Theory”, Philosophy of Social Science Roundtable/European Network for Philosophy of Social Science Conference in Seattle (May 2015)
  • “Risk Aversion and the Long Run”, Work-in-Progress Colloquium at the University of Konstanz, Lehrstuhl Thomas Müller (April 2015)
  • “Bargaining and the Impartiality of the Social Contract”, APA Pacific Division Meeting in Vancouver (April 2015)
  • “Bargaining and the Impartiality of the Social Contract”, invited talk at LMU Munich, Lehrstuhl Nida-Rümelin (January 2015)
  • “Temptation, Regret and Risk-Taking”, European Congress in Analytical Philosophy in Bucharest (August 2014)
  • “Game Theory and the Social Contract”, invited talk at the MCMP summer school on mathematical philosophy for female students in Munich (August 2014)
  • “The Epistemic Division of Labour Revisited”, invited talk at the Munich Centre for Mathematical Philosophy (February 2014)
  • “Novelty and the Epistemic Division of Labour”, Canadian Epistemological Society Symposium on Social Epistemology in Sherbrooke (November 2013)
  • “On the Alleged Confirmatory Value of Robustness Analysis in Economic Modeling”, Models and Simulations 5 in Helsinki (June 2012)
  • “On the Robustness of Economic Models”, EIPE PhD Seminar (December 2011)
  • Invited Comments on Lisciandra, Chiara: “Conformorality: A Study on Conformity and Normative Judgement” at the first Rotterdam-Tilburg Graduate Workshop in Philosophy of Science in Tilburg (November 2011)