Jean Baccelli

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2021- Associate Professor of Philosophy of Economics, University of Oxford and Tutorial Fellow, Jesus College, Oxford
2020-2021 Postdoctoral Fellow, Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
2019-2020 Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for the Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh
2016-2019 Postdoctoral Fellow, Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
2016 PhD, Ecole normale supérieure - Ulm

 

Forthcoming “Risk Aversion over Finite Domains”, with G. Schollmeyer and C. Jansen, Theory and Decision 
Forthcoming “Expected Utility in 3D”, in Augustin, T., Cozman, F., and Wheeler, G. (eds.), Reflections on the Foundations of Statistics: Essays in Honor of Teddy Seidenfeld, Springer: Theory and Decision – Library A
Forthcoming “Can Redescriptions of Outcomes Salvage the Axioms of Decision Theory?”, with P. Mongin, Philosophical Studies 
Forthcoming “Support for Geometric Pooling”, with R. Stewart, The Review of Symbolic Logic 
Forthcoming “Expected Utility, Jeffrey’s Decision Theory, and the Paradoxes”, with P. Mongin, Synthese 
2021 “The Problem of State-Dependent Utility: A Reappraisal”, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 72 (2), p. 617-634  
2021 “Moral Hazard, the Savage Framework, and State-dependent Utility”, Erkenntnis, 86, p. 367-387 
2020 “Beyond the Metrological Viewpoint”, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science – Part A, 80, p. 56-61 
2018 “Risk Attitudes in Axiomatic Decision Theory – A Conceptual Perspective”, Theory and Decision, 84 (1), p. 61-82 
2017 “Do Bets Reveal Beliefs?”, Synthese, 194 (9), p. 3393-3419 
2016 “Choice-Based Cardinal Utility”, with P. Mongin, Journal of Economic Methodology, 23 (3), p. 268-288

 

 

My main research interests are in decision theory (especially under risk and uncertainty), social choice theory, and the philosophy of economics. I have additional research interests in the general philosophy of science (especially measurement) and formal epistemology.