Jean Baccelli
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Areas of Specialization and Competence
AOS Decision Theory, Philosophy of Economics, Philosophy of Measurement.
AOC Game Theory & Social Choice Theory, History of Microeconomic Ideas, Ethics.
Affiliations
2016-2017 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy,
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.
2013- Associate Research Fellow, Institut d’Histoire & de Philosophie des Sciences & des Techniques,
Université Paris-I – Ecole Normale Supérieure – Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.
Education
2011-2016 PhD, Economics & Philosophy, Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS), Paris, Summa cum laude.
Thesis title: “Essays in the Analysis of Axiomatic Decision Theory” [Abstract].
Adviser: P. Mongin. Committee: J. Dokic, R. Giraud, E. Karni, P. Mongin, & E. Picavet.
2005-2011 Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, Entered ranked 24th nationally.
ENS Diploma: Major in Philosophy, Minor in History.
2009-2010 ENS – Harvard Exchange Fellow, Harvard University, GSAS.
2009 Master “PhilMaster”, Philosophy, Institut Jean Nicod, Paris, Summa cum laude.
Thesis title: “Essays on Perception and Action”. Adviser: J. Dokic.
2008 Agrégation, Philosophy, Ranked 2nd nationally.
Teaching
2014-2016 Temporary Lecturer, Université Cergy-Pontoise, Department of Economics.
Classes taught (undergraduate level): Introductory Microeconomics (PI),
Intermediate Microeconomics (PI), Public Economics (TA).
2011-2014 Teaching Fellow, ENS, Department of Philosophy & Department of Cognitive Science.
Classes taught (Master level): Introductory Ethics and Meta-Ethics (PI, see [here]),
Introductory Decision Theory and Game Theory (TA, see [here]).
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Forthcoming “Do Bets Reveal Beliefs?”, Synthese [here].
“Choice-Based Cardinal Utility”, with P. Mongin, invited for publication,
Special Issue of the Journal of Economic Methodology in tribute to P. Suppes [here].
2016 “Axiomatic Analysis and Risk Attitude”,
Revue économique, 2016, 67 (2), p. 355-366 [here, in French; for a version in English, see here].
2013 “Behavior and the Concept of Choice”,
Dialogue – Canadian Philosophical Review, 2013, 52 (1), p. 43-60 [here, in French].
Work in Progress
“Ordinalism in Perspective” (joint work with P. Mongin)
“What Can a Classical Measurement Theorist Learn from Representational Measurement Theory”
Peer-Reviewed Presentations
2016-10 “A Research Program for the Theory of Rational Choice under Risk”,
Conference “New Trends in Rational Choice Theory”, Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy.
2016-05 “Choice-Based Cardinal Utility”,
20th Conference of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought, Paris (Paris-I).
(Also invited for presentation at the L.E.D. External Seminar, Paris-VIII, 2016-06.)
2015-06 “On the Axiomatic Significance of Risk Attitudes”,
8th Workshop in Decisions, Games and Logic, Poster Session, London (LSE).
2014-10 “Decision Theory and Risk Attitudes – A Guide for the Perplexed”,
2nd International Conference “Economic Philosophy”, Strasbourg (Strasbourg University).
2014-06 “Further Issues in Recovering Subjective Probabilities from Choices”,
4th LSE Graduate Conference in Philosophy of Probability, London.
(Also invited for presentation at the Cergy-Pontoise-ESSEC Theory Seminar, 2014-10.)
2013-06 “Re-Specifying Options: A Solution to the Paradoxes of Preference Theory?”,
XIth Conference of the International Network for Economic Method, Rotterdam.
(Also invited for presentation at the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, 2013-02.)
Service
2013-2016 Seminar organizer, “Decision, Rationality, Interaction” ENS Seminar [here].
2012- Referee for Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics, Erkenntnis, Theoria, &
the 2016 Biennial Congress of the French Society for the Philosophy of Science (SPS).
Grants
2016-2017
2011-2014
2008-2009
2005-2011
1-year
3-year
1-year
4-year
postdoctoral grant from the Ernst und Margarete Wagemann Foundation.
PhD grant from ENS (PhD French Government Fellow).
student grant from Harvard University (ENS – Harvard Exchange Fellow).
student grant from ENS (ENS French Government Fellow).
References
Philippe Mongin
Senior CNRS Researcher
HEC – Paris Business School
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Edi Karni
Professor of Economics
Johns Hopkins University
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Daniel Hausman
Professor of Philosophy
University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Richard Bradley
Professor of Philosophy
London School of Economics
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Eric Danan (teaching ref., economics)
Junior CNRS Researcher
Université Cergy-Pontoise
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Mikaël Cozic (teaching ref., philosophy)
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Université Paris-Est Créteil
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