Christian List#
| Membership Number: | 6415 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHILOSOPHY, THEOLOGY & RELIGIOUS STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2023 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://christianlist.net/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 2001 Professor (Chair) of Philosophy and Decision Theory, LMU Munich, and Co-Director, Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy
- 2007 - 2020 Professor of Philosophy and Political Science, London School of Economics
- 2005 - 2007 Lecturer, then Reader, in Political Science, London School of Economics
- 2003 Postdoctoral Fellow, Australian National University (RSSS)
- 2001 - 2003 Postdoctoral (Prize) Research Fellow, Nuffield College, Oxford
- Main visiting positions:
- Since 2021: Visiting Professor of Philosophy, London School of Economics
- Autumn 2015: Visiting Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
- Autumn 2014: Visiting Fellow, University of Uppsala, associated with the Franco-Swedish Program in Philosophy and Economics
- Autumn 2011: Fellow, Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (SCAS)
- 2009 - 2010: Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Fellow, Princeton University, Center for Human Values
- Spring 2006: Visiting Research Scholar, Princeton University, Center for Human Values
- Between 2000 and 2014: Several invited visits to the Australian National University, Canberra, including as Harsanyi Program Visitor (2000) and Harsanyi Fellow (2014) in Philosophy
Fields of Scholarship
- Theories of individual and collective decision making, especially social choice theory
- Philosophical foundations of the social sciences
- Mental causation
- Free will
- Theories of democracy
- Theories of group agency and social epistemology
Honours and Awards
- 2022 Ordinary Member, Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities
- 2020 Joseph B. Gittler Award, awarded by the American Philosophical Association (“for an outstanding scholarly contribution in the field of the philosophy of one or more of the social sciences”)
- 2014 Fellow of the British Academy
- 2012 Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship
- 2010 Social Choice and Welfare Prize, awarded by the Society for Social Choice and Welfare
- 2009 Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Fellowship, Princeton University
- 2008 Named as one of ten “rising stars” in British academia, Times Higher Education
- 2007 Philip Leverhulme Prize in Philosophy and Ethics
- 2005 Nuffield Foundation New Career Development Fellowship (jointly awarded with Franz Dietrich)
- 1998 Doctoral Scholarship, Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
- 1996 Scatcherd European Scholarship, University of Oxford
- 1994 Domus Scholarship, St Peter’s College, Oxford
- 1992 Scholarship, Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
- 1990 National First Prize (Bundessieger), German Jugend forscht contest in mathematics and computer science
