Lukas Beck
@becklukas.bsky.social
Philosopher @Leibniz University Hannover; PhD from CambridgeHPS; working on the Philosophy of Economics. he/him
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Join us for the Inaugural Conference of the new Forum #Wissenschaftsreflexion in June 2026! Early-Career Researchers can still apply for a dedicated workshop that covers travel & accomodation costs. #PhilSci #PhilSky #HPS #STS #SocSky @mapsproject.bsky.social @modeltransfer.bsky.social
Working on #TrustInScience #AcademicFreedom #ValuesInScience #Expertise #IntegrativeResearch #ScienceForPolicy or related topics?
👉 Apply until Nov. 30 for the Early-Career Workshop on #Wissenschaftsreflexion taking place June 2026. Travel costs and accomodation can be covered. Spread the word :)
👉 Apply until Nov. 30 for the Early-Career Workshop on #Wissenschaftsreflexion taking place June 2026. Travel costs and accomodation can be covered. Spread the word :)
November 19, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Join us for the Inaugural Conference of the new Forum #Wissenschaftsreflexion in June 2026! Early-Career Researchers can still apply for a dedicated workshop that covers travel & accomodation costs. #PhilSci #PhilSky #HPS #STS #SocSky @mapsproject.bsky.social @modeltransfer.bsky.social
I am sharing a preprint of my chapter forthcoming in the Routledge Handbook on the Philosophy of Desire (edited by @alexgregory.bsky.social): "Desires in Economics."
philpapers.org/rec/BECDIE-3
Feedback or any thoughts are welcome!
Contains references to a galaxy far, far away🌌
More details below👇
philpapers.org/rec/BECDIE-3
Feedback or any thoughts are welcome!
Contains references to a galaxy far, far away🌌
More details below👇
Lukas Beck, Desires in Economics - PhilPapers
At the heart of economics is a concept that bears a striking resemblance to a desire. Economists use preferences to explain and predict people's choices. However, what exactly we are talking ...
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November 13, 2025 at 5:19 PM
I am sharing a preprint of my chapter forthcoming in the Routledge Handbook on the Philosophy of Desire (edited by @alexgregory.bsky.social): "Desires in Economics."
philpapers.org/rec/BECDIE-3
Feedback or any thoughts are welcome!
Contains references to a galaxy far, far away🌌
More details below👇
philpapers.org/rec/BECDIE-3
Feedback or any thoughts are welcome!
Contains references to a galaxy far, far away🌌
More details below👇
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Team member @becklukas.bsky.social gave a talk entitled "Policy Optimization IAMs as Normative Models" at the Institute of Philosophy Colloquium. @iphilluh.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Team member @becklukas.bsky.social gave a talk entitled "Policy Optimization IAMs as Normative Models" at the Institute of Philosophy Colloquium. @iphilluh.bsky.social
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Looking for #ArgumentMapping tools or software for #TeachingPhilosophy. Is there an overview somewhere? Or do you have specific recommendations? #Philsky
October 25, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Looking for #ArgumentMapping tools or software for #TeachingPhilosophy. Is there an overview somewhere? Or do you have specific recommendations? #Philsky
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I’ve just uploaded to philpapers my (preprint) chapter titled “Values and Measurement” forthcoming in the Routledge Handbook of Values in Science.
It’s an overview of arguments for values playing significant roles in measurement practices.
Comments welcome!
philpapers.org/rec/LARVAM-2
It’s an overview of arguments for values playing significant roles in measurement practices.
Comments welcome!
philpapers.org/rec/LARVAM-2
Cristian Larroulet Philippi, Values and Measurement - PhilPapers
At first sight, measurement might appear to be a natural candidate for a scientific practice that is value-free. This chapter reviews prominent arguments supporting the opposite view, i.e., that value...
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October 21, 2025 at 11:44 AM
I’ve just uploaded to philpapers my (preprint) chapter titled “Values and Measurement” forthcoming in the Routledge Handbook of Values in Science.
It’s an overview of arguments for values playing significant roles in measurement practices.
Comments welcome!
philpapers.org/rec/LARVAM-2
It’s an overview of arguments for values playing significant roles in measurement practices.
Comments welcome!
philpapers.org/rec/LARVAM-2
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I don't say "public philosophy" or "applied philosophy" because both seem to be trying to carve out a 2nd tier status for what is in fact our discipline at its best, doing what it's always done - speaking to people about questions that matter.
July 23, 2025 at 6:40 AM
I don't say "public philosophy" or "applied philosophy" because both seem to be trying to carve out a 2nd tier status for what is in fact our discipline at its best, doing what it's always done - speaking to people about questions that matter.
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Team member @becklukas.bsky.social presented "On the Diversity of Models in Normative Inquiry" at the #BSPS2025
July 18, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Team member @becklukas.bsky.social presented "On the Diversity of Models in Normative Inquiry" at the #BSPS2025
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It was such a great conference, thank you, @mapsproject.bsky.social team!
June 5, 2025 at 2:40 PM
It was such a great conference, thank you, @mapsproject.bsky.social team!
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We are pleased to invite you to the MAPS Symposium, taking place on June 4 and 5, 2025, at Koniglicher Pferdestall. Attendance is free and open to all. We have a great lineup! Join us for two days of engaging discussions and critical reflections.
May 19, 2025 at 3:48 PM
We are pleased to invite you to the MAPS Symposium, taking place on June 4 and 5, 2025, at Koniglicher Pferdestall. Attendance is free and open to all. We have a great lineup! Join us for two days of engaging discussions and critical reflections.
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I think the thing people are missing about Trump’s plan is that, while we have to go through some short term pain, in exchange we will get long term pain.
April 3, 2025 at 9:12 AM
I think the thing people are missing about Trump’s plan is that, while we have to go through some short term pain, in exchange we will get long term pain.
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In collaboration with Luca Congiu (University of Rome Tor Vergata), we are conducting an experimental study to test whether presenting probabilities pictorially reduces the prevalence of choice patterns in line with the Allais paradox.
January 28, 2025 at 9:47 PM
In collaboration with Luca Congiu (University of Rome Tor Vergata), we are conducting an experimental study to test whether presenting probabilities pictorially reduces the prevalence of choice patterns in line with the Allais paradox.
Congratulations to my spouse who is now a certified expert in strategic behavior and manipulation in collective decision-making 🥳
This is great, right? 😅
This is great, right? 😅
Congrats to Dr Wollesen (www.belewollesen.com) @belewollesen.bsky.social who just passed with no corrections! I'll post more later but just wanted to share this image of me and her and the commissar model are got me to represent what she thought of me as an advisor.
December 17, 2024 at 10:44 PM
Congratulations to my spouse who is now a certified expert in strategic behavior and manipulation in collective decision-making 🥳
This is great, right? 😅
This is great, right? 😅
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The great conference (my very first one!) is in Atlanta this year. Send ‘papers on any topic in philosophy of the social sciences, especially those that tackle philosophical issues as they arise in, and are consequential for, practicing social scientists’. Abstracts by Dec 15th! #philsci #philsky
Philosophy of Social Science Roundtable
The Philosophy of Social Science Roundtable is an annual event held in North America. The conference is a small, workshop style event. Papers on any topic related to the social sciences, b...
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December 11, 2024 at 8:53 AM
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No one likes a poorly attended inauguration... so please join me in London or online on 3 Dec for my inaugural lecture, "The Edge of Sentience". www.lse.ac.uk/Events/2024/...
The edge of sentience: risk and precaution in humans, other animals, and AI
6.30pm Tue 3 Dec | Jonathan Birch | Free public event at LSE
www.lse.ac.uk
November 19, 2024 at 9:06 AM
No one likes a poorly attended inauguration... so please join me in London or online on 3 Dec for my inaugural lecture, "The Edge of Sentience". www.lse.ac.uk/Events/2024/...
CfP: What is the appropriate role of climate economics in decision-making and climate policy? What role do value judgments play in its models and methods? How does it relate to other disciplines?
If you have answers, submit them to our topical collection for the EJPS: philsci.eu/Phil-Climate...
If you have answers, submit them to our topical collection for the EJPS: philsci.eu/Phil-Climate...
European Philosophy of Science Association (EPSA) - Philosophical Perspectives on Climate Economics
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November 25, 2024 at 5:39 PM
CfP: What is the appropriate role of climate economics in decision-making and climate policy? What role do value judgments play in its models and methods? How does it relate to other disciplines?
If you have answers, submit them to our topical collection for the EJPS: philsci.eu/Phil-Climate...
If you have answers, submit them to our topical collection for the EJPS: philsci.eu/Phil-Climate...
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I designed a lecture course on measurement that I will teach at Cambridge in Spring 25 and, in extended form, at Boston University in Fall 25 (drive.google.com/file/d/1w3QE...). t focuses on perennial problems (quantification, scales, evidence) and methods. Happy about feedback. #philsci #philsky
November 25, 2024 at 3:13 PM
I designed a lecture course on measurement that I will teach at Cambridge in Spring 25 and, in extended form, at Boston University in Fall 25 (drive.google.com/file/d/1w3QE...). t focuses on perennial problems (quantification, scales, evidence) and methods. Happy about feedback. #philsci #philsky
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So many newspaper stories about AI have the form "In the future, AI will be able to X." But absent a demonstrable ability to X in the present, this isn't news – it's marketing dressed up as news. Journalists should not be that credulous.
October 11, 2024 at 8:54 AM
So many newspaper stories about AI have the form "In the future, AI will be able to X." But absent a demonstrable ability to X in the present, this isn't news – it's marketing dressed up as news. Journalists should not be that credulous.
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"The new UK government would be well advised to focus on health in delivering transport policies, not only on reducing carbon emissions." blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...
Economic transport policy should prioritise physical activity
Electric vehicles are key for reducing transport emissions, but do they produce a healthy urban transport system? David Klenert, Linus Mattauch and Simona Sulikova argue that the health benefits of…
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October 4, 2024 at 8:08 AM
"The new UK government would be well advised to focus on health in delivering transport policies, not only on reducing carbon emissions." blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...
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I’m happy to share that my paper “Is Quantitative Measurement in the Human Sciences Doomed? On the Quantity Objection” has been accepted for publication by The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. Check it out here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Or ask me for a copy!
Or ask me for a copy!
Is Quantitative Measurement in the Human Sciences Doomed? On the Quantity Objection | The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science: Vol 0, No ja
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August 9, 2024 at 9:05 AM
I’m happy to share that my paper “Is Quantitative Measurement in the Human Sciences Doomed? On the Quantity Objection” has been accepted for publication by The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. Check it out here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Or ask me for a copy!
Or ask me for a copy!