Luc Bovens
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Luc Bovens is a Belgian professor of philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Bovens is a former editor of Economics and Philosophy. His main areas of research are moral and political philosophy, philosophy of economics, philosophy of public policy, Bayesian epistemology, rational choice theory, and voting theory. He has also published work, of some controversy to the anti-abortion movement, on issues regarding abortion and natural family planning methods of contraception.
Luc Bovens's Published Works
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Published Works
- The Ethics of Nudge (2009) (341)
- Democratic Answers to Complex Questions – An Epistemic Perspective (2006) (160)
- The Value of Hope (1999) (153)
- The preface, the lottery, and the logic of belief (1999) (79)
- Solving the Riddle of Coherence (2003) (65)
- Coherentism, reliability and Bayesian networks (2000) (65)
- A Utilitarian Assessment of Alternative Decision Rules in the Council of Ministers (2005) (59)
- Nancy Cartwright's philosophy of science (2008) (58)
- Bayesian Networks and the Problem of Unreliable Instruments (2002) (49)
- Welfarist evaluations of decision rules for boards of representatives (2007) (44)
- Sour Grapes and Character Planning (1992) (40)
- A Lockean Defense of Grandfathering Emission Rights (2011) (32)
- Why There Cannot be a Single Probabilistic Measure of Coherence (2005) (24)
- An Impossibility Result for Coherence Rankings (2006) (24)
- Believing More, Risking Less: On Coherence, Truth and Non-Trivial Extensions (2002) (22)
- Monty hall drives a wedge between Judy Benjamin and the sleeping beauty: A reply to Bovens (2010) (22)
- The Ethics of Dieselgate (2016) (21)
- A power measure analysis of Amendment 36 in Colorado (2008) (19)
- ARTICLES“P and I Will Believe that not-P”: Diachronic Constraints on Rational Belief (1995) (18)
- Must I be forgiven (2009) (18)
- EVALUATING LIFE OR DEATH PROSPECTS (2012) (17)
- The rhythm method and embryonic death (2006) (16)
- Judy Benjamin is a Sleeping Beauty (2010) (16)
- Coherence, Belief Expansion and Bayesian Networks (2000) (16)
- Measuring common standards and equal responsibility-sharing in EU asylum outcome data (2012) (15)
- Welfare, voting and the constitution of a federal assembly (2007) (15)
- The Backward Induction Argument for the Finite Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma and the Surprise Exam Paradox (1997) (14)
- CONCERNS FOR THE POORLY OFF IN ORDERING RISKY PROSPECTS (2015) (14)
- Nudges and Cultural Variance: a Note on Selinger and Whyte (2010) (14)
- The two faces of akratics anonymous (1999) (14)
- Too Odd (Not) to Be True? A Reply to Olsson (2002) (12)
- The intentional acquisition of mental states (1995) (11)
- Voting Procedures for Complex Collective Decisions. An Epistemic Perspective (2004) (10)
- Minimizing the threat of a positive majority deficit in two-tier voting systems with equipopulous units (2013) (10)
- Child euthanasia: should we just not talk about it? (2015) (9)
- A Probabilistic Theory of the Coherence of an Information Set (2001) (9)
- Democracy and Argument - Tracking Truth in Complex Social Decisions (2004) (8)
- Supervenience and moral realsim (1999) (8)
- Belief Expansion, Contextual Fit, and the Reliability of Information Sources (2001) (8)
- The Variety-of-Evidence Thesis and the Reliability of Instruments: A Bayesian-Network Approach (2001) (7)
- Real Nudge (2012) (7)
- Moral Luck, Photojournalism, and Pornography (1998) (6)
- Why couldn't I be nudged to dislike a Big Mac? (2013) (6)
- Can the Catholic Church agree to condom use by HIV-discordant couples? (2009) (6)
- Factions in Rousseau's Du Contrat Social and federal representation (2007) (6)
- The doctrinal paradox and the mixed‐motivation problem (2006) (5)
- On arguments from self-interest for the Nash solution and the Kalai egalitarian solution to the bargaining problem (1987) (5)
- Coherence and the Role of Specificity: A Response to Meijs and Douven (2005) (5)
- Evaluating risky prospects: the distribution view (2015) (5)
- Nudging Healthy Lifestyles – Informing Regulatory Governance with Behavioural Research (2012) (5)
- Selection under Uncertainty: Affirmative Action at Shortlisting Stage (2016) (4)
- The puzzle of the hats (2009) (4)
- Authenticity in Kurosawa (1999) (4)
- Behavioural public policies and charitable giving (2018) (3)
- Does it Matter whether a Miracle-Like Event Happens to Oneself rather than to Someone Else? (2011) (3)
- Why the refugee quota system is unfair on poorer eastern and southern EU states (2015) (3)
- The gender-neutral bathroom: a new frame and some nudges (2020) (3)
- “From Each according to Ability; To Each according to Needs” (2019) (3)
- Don't Mess With My Smokes: Cigarettes and Freedom (2016) (3)
- Bayesian Networks in Philosophy (2003) (3)
- Measuring voting power for dependent voters through causal models (2011) (2)
- A Dutch book for group decision-making? (2009) (2)
- The Ethics of Making Risky Decisions for Others (2019) (2)
- The epistemology of social facts: the evidential value of personal experience versus testimony (2002) (2)
- Post-Covid 19 economic development and policy: submitted as recommendations to the Scottish economic recovery group (2020) (1)
- The doctrinal paradox (2005) (1)
- 'From Each according to Ability; To Each according to Needs' Origin, Meaning, and Development of Socialist Slogans (2019) (1)
- Measuring the impact of philosophy (2010) (1)
- Vergiffenis in Elsschots Het Been: Boorman vs. Laarmans (2008) (1)
- Sequential Counterfactuals, Cotenability and Temporal Becoming (1998) (1)
- The tragedy of the commons as a voting game (2015) (1)
- Germany is accepting less than its fair share of refugees, while official data have also overestimated the number of refugees living in the country (2014) (1)
- Democratic Legitimacy and Proceduralist Social Epistemology (2012) (1)
- Measuring Influence for Dependent Voters : A Generalization of the Banzhaf Measure (2008) (1)
- Refugee Quotas across the EU: A More Reasonable Distribution Key for Refugee Quotas (2016) (1)
- Nudging the pub: a change in choice architecture can help pubgoers drink less (2015) (1)
- To those who oppose gender-neutral toilets: they’re better for everybody (2017) (1)
- Special issue on Bayesian epistemology edited by L. Bovens and S. Hartmann (2007) (0)
- A Response to Prelec Luc Bovens Outcome and diagnostic utility (2018) (0)
- Situationist charges versus personologist defenses and the issue of skills (1989) (0)
- How should the weights be set in a federal assembly?: a welfarist argument from cartel formation (2008) (0)
- 6. Counsel (2021) (0)
- The Last Hope Part 1: A worthwhile life (2017) (0)
- Contextual pluralism and the libertarian paradox (1993) (0)
- Review: Hausman, D. Essays on Philosophy and Economic Methodology (1994) (0)
- Frequentism and 2-by-2 Contingency Tables (2010) (0)
- The rhythm method and embryonic death L Bovens (2006) (0)
- Can there be more than one set of categories (1989) (0)
- 4. Reconciliation (2021) (0)
- Secular hopes in the face of death (2017) (0)
- Models of Preference Change (2006) (0)
- De Doctrinale Paradox (2005) (0)
- Special issue of Synthese on Bayesian Epistemology (2007) (0)
- Four brides for twelve brothers: how to Dutch book a group of fully rational players (2006) (0)
- 1. Hope (2021) (0)
- Why This Book? (2021) (0)
- Book note: Danielson, P. artificial morality: virtuous robots for virtual games (1993) (0)
- Additional Teaching Materials (2021) (0)
- Equalising constituency sizes is likely to reduce the electoral bias in favour of Labour but only minimally so: much of the bias is likely to remain because it is due to other factors such as turnout and vote distribution. (2011) (0)
- Book review: Hausman, D. M. essays on philosophy and economic methodology (1994) (0)
- Coherence arguments and cyclical moral rankings (1994) (0)
- Final Words (2021) (0)
- Contrary to the claims of German politicians, Germany is not taking on more than its fair share of refugees (2014) (0)
- APSR EXTERNAL REVIEWERS, 2008–2009 (2009) (0)
- EUP Referees 1 February 2016-31 October 2017 (2018) (0)
- The Ethics of Nudge 1 Luc Bovens London School of Economics and Political Science Department of Philosophy , Logic and Scientific Method (2009) (0)
- The future variant of Moore's paradox (1995) (0)
- Luc Bovens and Wlodek Rabinowicz The meaning of "darn it!" The Meaning of "Darn it!" (2016) (0)
- Bayesian Networks in Epistemology and Philosophy of Science (2000) (0)
- Utilitarianism, degressive proportionality and the constitution of a federal assembly (2005) (0)
- (Hard ernst) 126–132 corrigendum (2002) (0)
- 2. Death (2021) (0)
- Acknowledgements (2013) (0)
- Invited talks Merging Logical Dynamics and Probabilistic Update (2009) (0)
- Rawls on mutual disinterest and Hume's subjective circumstances of justice (1994) (0)
- ‘Interview’, Probability and Statistics: 5 Questions (2010) (0)
- Discussion Questions (2021) (0)
- A response to Prelec (2013) (0)
- How to expand your beliefs in an uncertain world: a probabilistic model (2001) (0)
- Greece, Portugal, Spain and the East European states take on less than their fair share of responsibility for EU asylum seekers (2013) (0)
- Judy Benjamin is a Sleeping Beauty 1 (2009) (0)
- STEPHAN HARTMANN AN IMPOSSIBILITY RESULT FOR COHERENCE RANKINGS (2006) (0)
- Interview: Epistemology: 5 Questions (2008) (0)
- Do beliefs supervene on degrees of confidence (1999) (0)
- 5. Self-Management (2021) (0)
- Special Workshop on Philosophy, Economics and Public Policy (2005) (0)
- Affirmative action - a Polish example? (1991) (0)
- What Is This Thing Called Love? (2018) (0)
- Book review (1988) (0)
- Book note: Danielson, P *Artificial Morality* (1993) (0)
- Luc Bovens on Catholicism and HIV (2011) (0)
- Book review: Equilibrium and rationality: game theory revised by decision rules (2001) (0)
- Henry James, Paardenrennen, en Relatieve Deprivatie--Rational Choice Theory aan het Werk (1987) (0)
- The Meaning of 'Darn It!' (2015) (0)
- Principles of supervenience (1994) (0)
- Minimizing the threat of a positive majority deficit in two-tier voting systems with equipopulous units (2011) (0)
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