Publications
Luc Bovens
L[DOT]Bovens[AT']LSE[DOT]ac[DOT]uk
Most of the links below require institutional access to particular archives. For more links and abstracts of some of the papers below, visit my page on PhilPapers.
Forthcoming
‘Monty Hall Drives a Wedge between Judy Benjamin and the Sleeping Beauty: a Reply to Bovens’ Analysis (forthcoming) (with José Luis Ferreira)
‘Judy Benjamin is a Sleeping Beauty’ Analysis (forthcoming)
‘Interview’ In: Probability and Statistics: 5 Questions. Edited by Vincent Hendricks and Alan Hajek. Automatic Press (forthcoming)
‘Measuring Voting Power for Dependent Voters through Causal Models’ Texts in Logic and Games – Logic and the Foundations of Game and Decision Theory (with Claus Beisbart) (forthcoming)
‘A Dutch Book for Group Decision Making’ In: Studies in Logic—Foundations of the Formal Sciences VI—Reasoning about Probabilities and Probabilistic Reasoning. (with Wlodek Rabinowicz) (forthcoming)
‘Condoms, HIV-Discordant Couples and the Doctrine of Double Effect’ Journal of Medical Ethics (forthcoming)
2009
‘The Puzzle of the Hats’ Synthese, February 2009 (with Wlodek Rabinowicz) Published online.
‘Must I Be Forgiven?’ Analysis, 69, 2, pp. 227-33 (2009) [pdf]
‘The Ethics of Nudge’ In: Till Grüne-Yanoff and S.O. Hansson (2008) Preference Change: Approaches from Philosophy, Economics and Psychology, Berlin and New York: Springer, Theory and Decision Library A, Chapter 10. pp. 207-220.
2008
‘A Power Measure Analysis of Amendment 36 in Colorado’ Public Choice, 134, 3-2, pp. 231-46 (2008)
‘Interview’ In: Epistemology: 5 Questions. Edited by Vincent Hendricks and Duncan Pritchard. Automatic Press, 2008.
‘Vergiffenis in Elsschot’s Het Been—Boorman vs Laarmans’ (‘Forgiveness in Elsschot’s Het Been—Boorman vs Laarmans’ in Dutch). Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte. 100, 4. (November 2008)
‘Apologies’ Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 108: 219-239 (2008)
2007
‘How should the Weights be Set in a Federal Assembly? A Welfarist Argument from Cartel Formation’
Helen Bohse and Sven Walter (eds.) (2007). Selected Contributions to GAP.6, Sixth International Conference of the Society for Analytical Philosophy, Berlin, 11–14 September 2006. (CD-ROM) Paderborn: mentis. (with Claus Beisbart)
‘Welfare Evaluations of Decision Rules for Boards of Representatives’
Social Choice and Welfare, 29, (2007) pp. 581–608. (with Claus Beisbart)
‘Factions in Rousseau’s Du Contrat Social and Federal Representation’
Analysis, 67, (2007), pp. 12-20 (with Claus Beisbart)
‘Four Brides for Twelve Brothers – How to Dutch Book a Groups of Fully Rational Players’
2007
Bayesian Epistemology. Special Issue of Synthese (2007) (Edited with Stephan Hartmann)
2006
‘The Rhythm Method and Embryonic Death’
Journal of Medical Ethics, 32, (2006), pp. 355-56
This article is reviewed in the New York Times, June 13, 2006: http://tinyurl.com/kf9v2
‘Democratic Answers to Complex Questions—an Epistemic Perspective’
In: Synthese, 150, 1 (2006), pp. 131-53. (with Wlodek Rabinowicz)
‘The Doctrinal Paradox and the Mixed-Motivation Problem’
In: Analysis, 66 (2006), pp 35-8
‘An Impossibility Result for Coherence Rankings’
In: Philosophical Studies, 128 (2006), pp. 77-91 (with Stephan Hartmann)
‘Welfare, Voting and the Constitution of a Federal Assembly’
Forthcoming in: Reasoning, Rationality and Probability, Edited by M.C. Galavotti, R. Scazzieri, and P. Suppes (eds.) Stanford: CSLI Publications, 2006 (with Stephan Hartmann)
Nancy Cartwright’s Philosophy of Science. Routledge, 2007 (Edited with Stephan Hartmann and Carl Hoefer)
2005
‘Why There Cannot Be a Single Probabilistic Measure of Coherence’
In: Erkenntnis, 63 (2005), pp. 361-74 (with Stephan Hartmann) (pre-publication)
‘Coherence and the Role of Specificity: A Response to Meijs and Douven’
In: Mind, 114, (2005) (with Stephan Hartmann)
‘The Doctrinal Paradox’ (in Dutch)
In: Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor de Wijsbegeerte, 79 (2005), pp. 60-76 (with Wlodek Rabinowicz)
‘Solving the Riddle of Coherence’
In: Mind, 112 (2005), 601-34 (with Stephan Hartmann)
2004
‘Voting Procedures for Complex Collective Decisions—an Epistemic Perspective’
In: Ratio Juris, 17 (2004), pp. 241-58 (with Wlodek Rabinowicz)
2003
‘Democracy and Argument: Tracking Truth in Complex Social Decisions’ (with Wlodek Rabinowicz) In: A. van Aaken, C. List and C. Luetge (2003) Deliberation and Decision. Aldershot (Ashgate Publishing), pp. 133-157.
Bayesian Epistemology, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2003 (with Stephan Hartmann)
Bayesianische Erkenntnistheorie, Paderborn, Mentis, 2006. German translation of Bayesian Epistemology (OUP, 2003) (with Stephan Hartmann)
2002
‘Too Odd (not) to Be True: a Reply to Erik Olsson’
In: British Journal of Philosophy of Science (with Branden Fitelson, Stephan Hartmann and Josh Snyder), 53, (2002), pp. 539-63
‘Believing More, Risking Less. On Coherence, Truth and Non-Trivial Extensions’ (with Erik J. Olsson)
In: Erkenntnis, 57, (2002), pp. 137-150
‘Bayesian Networks and the Problem of Unreliable Instruments’ (with Stephan Hartmann)
In: Philosophy of Science, 69, (2002), pp. 29-73
‘The Epistemology of Social Facts: The Evidential Value of Personal Experience versus Testimony’ (with Steve Leeds)
In: Social Facts and Collective Intentionality, edited by Georg Meggle, Haensel-Hohenhausen, Frankfurt a.M. (2002), pp. 35-43
2001
‘Demokratisk Argumentation - Om Juryteoremets Tillaempning paa komplexa kollektiva beslut’ (in Swedish)
In: Tidskrift för Politisk Filosofi, 2001/1, pp. 14-37 (with Wlodek Rabinowicz)
‘Demokratisk och komplexa beslut – omigen’ (in Swedish)
In: Tidskrift för Politisk Filosofi, 2001/3, pp. 52-56 (with Wlodek Rabinowicz)
‘A Probabilistic Theory of the Coherence of an Information Set’
In: Argument and Analysis – Selected Papers of the 4th International Congress of the Society for Analytical Philosophy (2001)
http://www.gap-im-netz.de/gap4Konf/Proceedings4/Proc.htm pp. 195-206 (with Stephan Hartmann)
‘How to Expand your Beliefs in an Uncertain World: a Probabilistic Model’
In: Informatik Berichte 8/2001 – KI2001 Workshop. Edited by G. Kern-Isberner, T. Lukasiewicz and E. Weydert, pp. 53-62 (with Stephan Hartmann)
‘Belief Expansion, Contextual Fit and the Reliability of Information Sources’ (with Stephan Hartmann)
In: Modeling and Using Context. Third International and Interdisciplinary Conference, CONTEXT 2001, Dundee, UK, July 2001. Ed. by Akman, V. Bouquet, P., Thomason, R. and Young R.A. Springer, Berlin.
‘Book Review: Weirich, P. Equilibrium and Rationality - Game Theory Revised by Decision Rules’ Cambridge University Press, 1998, pp. 235.
In: Mind, 110, (2001), pp. 288-92
2000
‘Coherentism, Reliability and Bayesian Networks’ (with Erik J. Olsson)
In: Mind, 109, (2000), pp. 685-719
‘Coherence, Belief Expansion and Bayesian Networks’ (with Stephan Hartmann) In: Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Non-Monotonic Reasoning, NMR'2000 Breckenridge, Colorado, USA, April 9-11, 2000.
1999
‘Supervenience and Moral Realism’ (with Dalia Drai)
In: Philosophia, 27, (1999), pp. 241-245
‘The Two Faces of Akratics Anonymous’
In: Analysis, 59, 4, (1999), pp. 230-236
Translated into the German ('Die beiden Gesichter der Anonymen Akratiker') and reprinted in: Thomas Spitzley (Ed.), Willensschwäche, Paderborn: Mentis, forthcoming (2002)
In: The Journal of Value Inquiry, 33, (1999), pp. 227-237
‘The Preface, the Lottery and the Logic of Belief’ (with James Hawthorne)
In: Mind, 108, (1999), pp. 241-264
‘Do Beliefs Supervene on Degrees of Confidence?’
In: Belief, Cognition and the Will, ed. by Anthonie Meijers, Tilburg University Press, Studies in General Philosophy of Science, 1999, pp. 27-40
In: Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 59, (1999), 667-681
1998
‘Moral Luck, Photojournalism and Pornography’
In: The Journal of Value Inquiry, 32, (1998), 205-217
'Sequential Counterfactuals, Cotenability and Temporal Becoming'
In: Philosophical Studies, 90, (1998), pp. 79-101
1997
In: Analysis, 57, (1997), 179-186
1996
'Sequential Counterfactuals, Cotenability and Temporal Becoming'
In: Logica '96 - Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium, 41-53
Edited by Timothy Childress, Petr Kolar and Vladimir Svoboda. Published by Filosofia, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic.
1995
‘The Intentional Acquisition of Mental States’
In: Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 55, (1995), 821-840
‘"P and I Will Believe that Not-P": Diachronic Constraints on Rational Belief’
In: Mind, 104, (1995), pp. 737-760
1994
‘Coherence Arguments and Cyclical Moral Rankings’
In: Philosophical Studies, 74, (1994), 369-384.
‘Rawls on Mutual Disinterest and Hume's Subjective Circumstances of Justice’
In: Archiv fur Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie, 80, (1994), 203-207.
In: Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 72, (1994), pp. 294-301
'The Future Variant of Moore's Paradox'
In: The British Tradition in 20th Century Philosophy. Papers of the 17th International Wittgenstein Symposium Edited by Jaakko Hintikka and Klaus Puhl, Kirchberg am Wechsel, (1994)
'Principles of Supervenience'
Abstract in Journal of Symbolic Logic, (1994), 59, 1, pp. 346-347.
‘Book Review: HAUSMAN, D. M. Essays on Philosophy and Economic Methodology (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1992.)’
In: Review of Metaphysics, 47, (1994), 818-820.
1993
‘Contextual Pluralism and the Libertarian Paradox’
In: Archiv fur Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie, 79, (1993), 188-197
‘Book Note: DANIELSON, P. Artificial Morality: Virtuous Robots for Virtual Games (New York, Routledge, 1992.)’
In: Political Studies, 41, (1993), p. 719.
1992
‘Sour Grapes and Character Planning’
In: Journal of Philosophy, 84, (1992), 57-78
1991
‘Affirmative Action ‑ a Polish Example?’
Newsletter (The Center for Values and Social Policy), Fall 1991
Reprinted in SOLOMON, R.C. (1994) Above the Bottom Line - an Introduction to Business Ethics (Harcourt, Fort Worth), pp. 337-339
1989
'Can There Be More than One Set of Categories?'
In: Proceedings: Sixth International Kant Congress. The Pennsylvania State University, 1985, eds. G. Funke & Th. M. Seebohm, The Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology, copublished with the University Press of America, Washington, D.C., U.S.A. (1989).
'Situationist Charges versus Personologist Defenses and the Issue of Skills'
In: R.F. Dillon and J.W. Pellegrino (eds.) Testing--Theoretical and Applied Perspectives (Praeger, New York), pp. 199-217.
1988
‘Book Review : Gauthier, D. Morals by Agreement, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1986, 367 pp’
In: Theory and Decision, 24, (1988), 289‑293.
1987
In: Theory and Decision, 23, (1987), 231‑260
‘An Essay on Bargaining Theory’
In: Abstracts of the 8th International Conference of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, Vol. 2, Moscow, (1987), 473‑476.
‘Henry James, Horse‑Racing and Relative Deprivation ‑ An Introduction to Rational Choice Theory’ (in Dutch)
Chapter in textbook on Social Theory by J. Verhoeven (ed.), Acco, Leuven, (1987)