The Department of Political Science at Trinity College Dublin, in association with Trinity Research in Social Sciences (TRiSS)
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Date: Friday 25 November 2016
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Time: 4pm
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Venue: Conference Room, 6th floor, College Green, Trinity College Dublin
The Department of Political Science at Trinity College Dublin, in association with Trinity Research in Social Sciences (TRiSS), is pleased to invite you to a talk by Professor Christian List (LSE):
Reason-based choice and context-dependence: An explanatory framework
"A decision-maker focuses on some but not all properties of the options and chooses an option whose “motivationally salient” properties he/she most prefers. Reason-based explanations can capture two kinds of context dependent choice: (i) the motivationally salient properties may vary across choice contexts, and (ii) they may include “context-related” properties, not just “intrinsic” properties of the options. Our framework allows us to explain boundedly rational and sophisticated choice behaviour. Since properties can be recombined in new ways, it also offers resources for predicting choices in unobserved contexts."
About the Speaker
Professor Christian List is Professor of Political Science and Philosophy. His interests include formal epistemology; group agency; philosophy of social science; rational choice theory; social choice theory; theories of democracy and deliberation.