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Christian List
Overview
Christian List (born 1973) is a German philosopher and political scientist who serves as professor of philosophy and decision theory at LMU Munich 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.
Born in Nastätten, Germany, on 7 November 1973, List earned his Bachelor of Arts and Master of Philosophy degrees at St Peter's College, and his Doctor of Philosophy degree at Nuffield College, both University of Oxford. In the Fall of 2011, he was a Fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in Uppsala, Sweden. List was elected to the British Academy in 2014, the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.
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But these, though distinct classes, are not, in our sense of the term, distinct Kinds of men. A Christian, for example, differs from other human beings; but he differs only in the attribute which the word expresses, namely, belief in Christianity, and whatever else that implies, either as involved in the fact itself, or connected with it through some law of cause and effect. We should never think of inquiring what…
John Stuart Mill, A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive
States what Christian List is.
The confession of impotence, the abandonment of the programmatic intent is due to identification of the ideal with metaphysical fact, to the hypostasis of the ideal. With Christianism, that being a philosophy operating as a religion, world-weariness made the apology unnecessary and converted the hypostasis into the basis of that program of complete surrender of the attempt to master the problems of existence upon…
John Dewey, Creative Intelligence
States what Christian List is.
All theories in which the ultimate standard of institutions and rules of action was the happiness of mankind, and observation and experience the guides (and some such there have been in all periods of free speculation), are entitled to the name Positive, whatever, in other respects, their imperfections may be. But these were a small minority. M. Comte was right in affirming that the prevailing schools of moral and…
John Stuart Mill, Auguste Comte and Positivism
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- Harvard University Press
- Philosophy
- Bachelor of Arts
- Analytic philosophy
- Philosophy of social science
- Social choice theory
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Master of Philosophy
- Political philosophy
- Political science
- British Academy
- University of Oxford
- The Philosophical Review
- Decision theory
- Oxford University Press
- Sweden
- London School of Economics
- Formal epistemology
Place in the tradition
Part of Consciousness.