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John Dryzek & Christian List, Social Choice Theory and Deliberative Democracy: A Reconciliation - PhilPapers

Christian List @clist.bsky.social · 15d

And a second older paper: philpapers.org/rec/LISSCT-2.

The two most influential traditions of contemporary theorizing about democracy, social choice theory and deliberative democracy, are generally thought to be at loggerheads, in that the former demonstr...

Christian List, What’s Wrong with the Consequence Argument: A Compatibilist Libertarian Response - PhilPapers

Christian List @clist.bsky.social · 16d

I'll be uploading on Philpapers the preprints/manuscripts of some older papers, for continuing green open access, beginning with this one: philpapers.org/rec/LISXWW

The most prominent argument for the incompatibility of free will and determinism is Peter van Inwagen’s consequence argument. I offer a new diagnosis of what is wrong with this argument. Proponents .....

Conversations on Rational Choice

PhilSci-Archive @philsci-archive.bsky.social · 22d

New on the Archive:

DeBrota, John B. and List, Christian (2026) A Heptalemma for Quantum Mechanics. [Preprint]

https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/27977/

Catherine Herfeld @cherfeld.bsky.social · 29d

🔥 My book Conversations on Rational Choice is finally out: Conversation partners include Kenneth Arrow, Gary Becker, C. Bicchieri, D. Kahneman, P. Suppes, Christian List, Vernon Smith, Tom Schelling, L.A.Paul, C. Camerer, Martin Shubik, R. Kranton, and many others. www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...

Cambridge Core - Economic Thought, Philosophy and Methodology - Conversations on Rational Choice

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Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy @lmu-mcmp.bsky.social · Dec 23

Newly published: "Interview with Christian List", in Catherine Herfeld (@cherfeld.bsky.social), Conversations on Rational Choice, @universitypress.cambridge.org, 2025, philpapers.org/archive/LISI...

Christian List @clist.bsky.social · Dec 19

What action-guiding judgments should we rely on in cases of moral uncertainty? We show that the problem of moral uncertainty resolution can be modelled as a belief-binarization problem: how to arrive at all-out (“accept/reject”) judgments on some propositions based on our credences in them.

Zeev Goldschmidt & Christian List, Moral uncertainty resolution as belief binarization: An impossibility result - PhilPapers

What action-guiding judgments should we rely on in cases of moral uncertainty, when we divide our credence among competing moral views and assign credences between 0 and 1 to propositions such ...

John B. DeBrota & Christian List, A Heptalemma for Quantum Mechanics - PhilPapers

Christian List @clist.bsky.social · Dec 15

We present a seven-pronged no-go result for quantum mechanics (QM). Seven initially plausible theses about physical reality are jointly inconsistent with QM, while any six are consistent. Different interpretations of QM can then be taxonomized in terms of which theses they retain and which not.

We present a seven-pronged no-go result for quantum mechanics: a “heptalemma”. It shows that seven initially plausible theses about physical reality are jointly inconsistent with the predictions of qu...

Master in Logic and Philosophy of Science

Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy @lmu-mcmp.bsky.social · Nov 17

The 2026 application round for the MA in Logic and Philosophy of Science at @lmumuenchen.bsky.social is now open. Please help us spread the word. www.philosophie.lmu.de/en/study/deg...

Our Master (MA) program in Logic and Philosophy of Science was founded in October 2012. It is an international MA program of the Faculty of Philosophy, Philosophy of Science and Religious Studies at L...

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Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften (BAdW) @badw.de · Sep 10

Can AI systems have free will? - das fragt unser Mitglied
@clist.bsky.social im folgenden #OpenAccess - Artikel:

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

#KI #AI #KuenstlicheIntelligenz #ArtificialIntelligence #FreierWille #FreeWill #Philosophy #Philosophie

While there has been much discussion of whether AI systems could function as moral agents or acquire sentience, there has been very little discussion of whether AI systems could have free will. I sket...

A DEFENSE OF LOGICISM | Bulletin of Symbolic Logic | Cambridge Core

Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy @lmu-mcmp.bsky.social · Sep 9

Logicism is the thesis that mathematics is reducible to logic and analytic truths. It has a long history, going back to Frege, Russell, and Whitehead, but it was subsequently rejected by others. In this recent paper, Hannes Leitgeb, Uri Nodelman, and Edward Zalta offer a new defence of logicism.

A DEFENSE OF LOGICISM - Volume 31 Issue 1

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Christian List @clist.bsky.social · Sep 8

Here is a broader discussion of the parallels between corporate agency and AI. Both involve non-human goal-directed agents that affect the social world, often in high-stakes settings, and so they raise similar moral and regulatory challenges, which we must address for the sake of protecting humans.

Group Agency and Artificial Intelligence - Philosophy & Technology

The aim of this exploratory paper is to review an under-appreciated parallel between group agency and artificial intelligence. As both phenomena involve non-human goal-directed agents that can make a ...

Do group agents have free will?

Christian List @clist.bsky.social · Sep 5

The criteria for free will in AI systems are similar to those for free will in corporate agents. The key question is whether the kinds of non-biological entities that increasingly play decision-making roles in society (whether corporate or AI) should be viewed as intentional agents with free will.

It is common to ascribe agency to some organized collectives, such as corporations, courts, and states, and to treat them as loci of responsibility, over and above their individual members. But sin...

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Christian List @clist.bsky.social · Sep 4

Here is a repost of a talk on the picture of free will that lies in the background. Free will, I argue, requires intentional agency, alternative possibilities, and causal control. Free will is a multiply realizable capacity, which can occur not only in biological agents but also in artificial ones.

Does free will exist? | Christian List | TEDxTUM

YouTube video by TEDx Talks

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Christian List @clist.bsky.social · Sep 2

To determine whether an AI system has free will, we shouldn't look for any mysterious property, ask if the system is unpredictable, or expect its algorithms to be indeterministic. We should ask: are there explanatory reasons to view the system as a choice-making agent with alternative possibilities?

While there has been much discussion of whether AI systems could function as moral agents or acquire sentience, there has been very little discussion of whether AI systems could have free will. I sket...

Christian List @clist.bsky.social · Aug 24

Here is now the published version: doi.org/10.1007/s112...

While there has been much discussion of whether AI systems could function as moral agents or acquire sentience, there has been very little discussion of whether AI systems could have free will. I sket...

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Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy @lmu-mcmp.bsky.social · Aug 22

Newly published: "Can AI systems have free will?", by Christian List, Synthese, 2025, link.springer.com/article/10.1...

While there has been much discussion of whether AI systems could function as moral agents or acquire sentience, there has been very little discussion of whether AI systems could have free will. I sket...