Christian List (born 1973) is a German

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and political scientist who serves as professor of

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and decision theory at the

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and co-director of the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy. He was previously professor of political science and philosophy at the London School of Economics. List's research interests relate to social choice theory, formal epistemology, political philosophy, 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

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degree at

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, both University of Oxford. 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''. Oxford University Press, 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 Epistemologists Fellows of the British Academy German expatriates in England German male non-fiction writers German political philosophers German political scientists Living people Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich faculty People from Rhein-Lahn-Kreis Philosophers of social science Social choice theory Writers from Rhineland-Palatinate {{Polisci-bio-stub