Christian List (born 1973) is a German

philosopher Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, Value (ethics and social sciences), value, mind, and language. It is a rational an ...

and political scientist who serves as professor of

philosophy Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, Value (ethics and social sciences), value, mind, and language. It is a rational an ...

and decision theory at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and co-director of the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy. He was previously professor of

political science Political science is the scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and Power (social and political), power, and the analysis of political activities, political philosophy, political thought, polit ...

and philosophy at the London School of Economics. List's research interests relate to

social choice theory Social choice theory is a branch of welfare economics that extends the Decision theory, theory of rational choice to collective decision-making. Social choice studies the behavior of different mathematical procedures (social welfare function, soc ...

, formal epistemology,

political philosophy Political philosophy studies the theoretical and conceptual foundations of politics. It examines the nature, scope, and Political legitimacy, legitimacy of political institutions, such as State (polity), states. This field investigates different ...

, and the philosophy of social science.Professor Christian List.
London School of Economics. Retrieved 23 June 2015. Born in Nastätten, Germany, on 7 November 1973, List earned his

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and Master of Philosophy degrees at St Peter's College, and his

Doctor of Philosophy A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD, DPhil; or ) is a terminal degree that usually denotes the highest level of academic achievement in a given discipline and is awarded following a course of Postgraduate education, graduate study and original resear ...

degree at Nuffield College, both

University of Oxford The University of Oxford is a collegiate university, collegiate research university in Oxford, England. There is evidence of teaching as early as 1096, making it the oldest university in the English-speaking world and the List of oldest un ...

. He was elected to the British Academy in 2014, the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.

Selected publications

*''Independence and Interdependence: Lessons from the Hive''. London School of Economics and Political Science, London, 2010. (With Adrian Vermeule) *''Where Do Preferences Come From?'' London School of Economics and Political Science, London, 2010. (With Franz Dietrich) *''Group Agency: The Possibility, Design, and Status of Corporate Agents''.

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, Oxford, 2011. (With Philip Pettit) *"Emergent Chance", '' The Philosophical Review'', 124 (1), 2015, pp. 119–152. (With Marcus Pivato) *''Why Free Will Is Real''. May 6, 2019, Harvard University Press;

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* 1973 births 21st-century German male writers 21st-century German non-fiction writers 21st-century German philosophers 21st-century political scientists Academics of the London School of Economics Alumni of Nuffield College, Oxford Alumni of St Peter's College, Oxford Analytic philosophers Decision theory German epistemologists Fellows of the British Academy German expatriates in England German male non-fiction writers German political philosophers German political scientists Living people Academic staff of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich People from Rhein-Lahn-Kreis Philosophers of social science Philosophers of identity Social choice theory Writers from Rhineland-Palatinate {{Polisci-bio-stub