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Christian List

Prof. Dr. Christian List

MCN regular member

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Chair and Head of the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy

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Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Fakultät für Philosophie, Wissenschaftstheorie
und Religionswissenschaft
Lehrstuhl für Philosophie und Entscheidungstheorie
Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1
D-80539 München


Website: http://christianlist.net/
Website: https://www.mcmp.philosophie.uni-muenchen.de/people/faculty/list/index.html

Further Information

Research focus: Christian List works on theories of individual and collective choice, the philosophy of mind and action, and the philosophy of the social sciences. He further has long-standing interests in political philosophy, especially in normative questions about democracy. Topics of work on which he has been particularly active include the aggregation of judgments, social choice theory, and group agency. In recent years, a growing part of his work has also addressed questions about free will, mental causation, levels of analysis in the human and social sciences, and more recently consciousness.

Keywords: Decision-making, individual and collective choice, preference and judgment aggregation, agency, free will, levels of explanation

Selected publications:

Christian List (2019), Why Free Will is Real, Cambridge/MA (Harvard University Press); German translation: Warum der freie Wille existiert, Darmstadt (wbg), 2021.

Christian List (2018), “What is it like to be a group agent?” Nous 52(2): 295-319.

Franz Dietrich and Christian List (2016), “Reason-based choice and context-dependence: An explanatory framework”, Economics and Philosophy 32(2): 175-229.

Christian List and Philip Pettit (2011), Group Agency: The Possibility, Design and Status of Corporate Agents, Oxford (Oxford University Press).

Christian List and Peter Menzies (2009), “Non-reductive physicalism and the limits of the exclusion principle”, Journal of Philosophy 106(9): 475-502.