A great title for an important paper “With Great Performativity Comes Great Responsibility?”. Congratulations to @becklukas.bsky.social @jakobortmann.bsky.social and the rest of the team #philsci #econsky

MAPS Project @mapsproject.bsky.social · last wk.

1/2 Economic predictions can become self-fulfilling prophecies. In a new paper forthcoming in the Journal of Economic Methodology, the Maps Team tries to bring some structure to how we think about economists' responsibility for these performative effects. philpapers.org/archive/BECW...

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MAPS Project @mapsproject.bsky.social · last mo.

1/2 MAPS team member @becklukas.bsky.social & Henrik Thoréns paper, Strategic ignorance, and the management of performative effects: Lessons from climate economics, has just been accepted for publication in Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Team members @dkhosrowi.bsky.social & @becklukas.bsky.social's paper, Like It or Not — Recommender Systems Lack a Coherent Normative Foundation, has been accepted for publication in Proceedings of the 2026 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency philpapers.org/archive/KHOL...

"The Condorcet Jury Theorem under Ambiguity" is the first paper I worked on in grad school. Now it is finally out in Ergo, check it out: journals.publishing.umich.edu/ergo/article... Special thank you to @lastpositivist.bsky.social and @becklukas.bsky.social for their comments and encouragement.

Beyond my book on happiness, I've been working away on /The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Desire/. The volume has 35 entries from many fantastic talented people, on a vast range of topics - wellbeing, decision, action, neuroscience, animals, pleasure, love, economics, AI, and more.

Check out this august book review we wrote 👇

Bele Wollesen @belewollesen.bsky.social · 4mo ago

It’s always a blast to write a book review with this guy: @becklukas.bsky.social. This time we read “False Prophets of Economics Imperialism: The Limits of Mathematical Market Models” by Matthew Watson. You can check out our thought on Watson’s book here: philpapers.org/archive/LUKF...

Super happy this paper got accepted for 'Philosophy of Science'! Its an attempt of reconciling speech act theory and STS in a way thats hopefully helpful to philosophers of science and controversies in values in science. #philsci #philsky #HPS @mapsproject.bsky.social philpapers.org/rec/ORTBWI

Jakob Ortmann, But what is ‘Performativity of Science’? Austin, Perlocutionary Sequels, and Referent Malleability - PhilPapers

Ever since its introduction by John L. Austin, ‘performativity’ has meant many things to many scholars—something that did not change when phrases like ‘performativity of science’ became popular. Such ...

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Join us at LSE for a panel on the ethics of foreign intervention, with Kieran Oberman, Jonathan Parry, Paola Romero, and myself, chaired by Alex Voorhoeve. In person and online. www.lse.ac.uk/events/inter...

The ethics of foreign intervention

6.30pm Tues 5 May | Kieran Oberman, Jonathan Parry, Paola Romero, Somayeh Tohidi | Ticket Required | Free public event at LSE

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Former LSE student Bele Wollesen has a paper coming out in Ergo that I am a big fan of (www.belewollesen.com/uploads/1/4/...).

Solidarity with Martin Peterson, a wonderful philosopher. I enjoyed working on this volume with him. Buy his books!

The Prisoner's Dilemma

Cambridge Core - Optimization, OR and risk - The Prisoner's Dilemma

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Justin Weinberg@dailynous.com · 7mo ago

Texas A&M actually tells a philosophy professor he may not teach Plato.

From the new issue: Against Prohibition (or, When Using Ordinal Scales to Compare Groups Is OK) – Cristian Larroulet Philippi Abstract in alt text or read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1... #philsci #philsky

Welfare Econ faces a core problem: preference endogeneity. What should we do when the yardstick used to assess policies changes with the analysed system? MAPS member @becklukas.bsky.social tackles this issue in the context of large-scale interventions. New paper in Politics, Philosophy & Economics.

New paper "Endogenous Preferences, Environmental Economics, and Welfare" accepted at Politics, Philosophy & Economics. In it, I argue for how we should address endogenous preferences in the welfare assessment of large-scale policy interventions (e.g., a carbon tax). Penultimate version here👇

Im Rentenpaket fällt mir wieder auf, wie sehr Berichterstattung darauf fokussiert, was das für Koalitionsstabilität und Kontrolle der Parteichefs über ihre Partei bedeutet, und wie wenig darauf, was es für das Leben der Menschen bedeutet.

Call for proposals for articles for a special issue of this well edited journal #econsky #histsci #climate

History of Climate Economics

Editors of the Special Issue Christophe Cassen (CNRS, CIRED Paris) Béatrice Cointe (CNRS, CSI Paris) Antoine Missemer (CNRS, CIRED Paris) Call for Papers In 2018, the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Eco...

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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

Institute of Philosophy LUH@iphilluh.bsky.social · 9mo ago

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 :)

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👇

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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Team member @becklukas.bsky.social gave a talk entitled "Policy Optimization IAMs as Normative Models" at the Institute of Philosophy Colloquium. @iphilluh.bsky.social

Looking for #ArgumentMapping tools or software for #TeachingPhilosophy. Is there an overview somewhere? Or do you have specific recommendations? #Philsky

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

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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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.

Team member @becklukas.bsky.social presented "On the Diversity of Models in Normative Inquiry" at the #BSPS2025

It was such a great conference, thank you, @mapsproject.bsky.social team!

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.

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.

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? 😅

@lastpositivist.bsky.social · 2y ago

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.

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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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

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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...