Books

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Generative Democracy: New Foundations for Democratic Theory

(With Franz Dietrich). In preparation for Oxford University Press.

(with Robert E. Goodin). Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2018.

Journal Articles

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(With Franz Dietrich). June 2024 [updated]. Forthcoming in Economic Theory. Final published version. See also Supplementary Material.

Good Reasons for Losers: Lottery Justification and Social Risk

Economics and Philosophy, online first 2021. Published article.

Directed Reflective Equilibrium: Thought Experiments and How to Use Them

(With Adam Slavny, Holly Lawford-Smith, David Axelsen). Journal of Moral Philosophy. Online First.

Why Populists Do Well on Social Networks

Global Justice: Theory Practice Rhetoric, 12(2), 2020. Open Access here.

Big Data Justice: A Case for Regulating The Global Information Commons

(WIth Adam Slavny, David Axelsen, and Holly Lawford-Smith). Journal of Politics, 83(2), 577-88, 2021. Forthcoming. Preprint PDF.

Epistemic Network Injustice

Politics, Philosophy and Economics, 19((1), 83-101, 2020. Preprint PDF.

Objective and Subjective Compliance: A Norm-Based Explanation of 'Moral Wiggle Room'.

(With Arne Weiss). Games & Economic Behavior 96, 170-183, 2016. Preprint PDF.

Epistemic Solidarity as a Political Strategy

(with Robert E. Goodin). Episteme 12(4), 439-457, 2015. Preprint PDF

Small Impacts and Imperceptible Effects: Causing Harm with Others

Midwest Studies in Philosophy 28, 75-90, 2014. Preprint PDF.

Buying Low, Flying High: Carbon Offsets and Partial Compliance

Political Studies, 62(4), 913-929, 2014. Preprint PDF.

Methodological Individualism and Holism in Political Science: A Reconciliation

(With Christian List). American Political Science Review 107(4), 629-643, 2013. Preprint PDF.

Epistemic Democracy with Defensible Premises

(with Franz Dietrich). Economics and Philosophy 29(1), 87-120, 2013. Preprint PDF.

Independent Opinions? On the causal foundations of belief formation and jury theorems

(with Franz Dietrich). Mind 122(487), 655-685, 2013. Preprint PDF.

Epistemic Aspects of Representative Government

(with Robert E. Goodin). European Political Science Review, 4(3), 303-325, 2012. Preprint PDF.

Courts of Many Minds

(with Robert E. Goodin). British Journal of Political Science, 42(3), 555-571, 2012. Preprint PDF.

Judgement Aggregation and Distributed Thinking

AI and Society 25, 401-412, 2010. Reprinted in: Stephen J. Cowley & Frederic Vallee-Tourangeau, eds., 'Cognition beyond the Brain,' London: Springer. Preprint PDF.

Sort out your Neighborhood: Public Good Games on Dynamic Networks

Synthese 168(2), 273-294, 2009. Preprint PDF.

Reply: Clubbish Justice

Politics, Philosophy & Economics 7(4), 447-453, 2008.

Translucency, assortation, and information pooling: how groups solve social dilemmas

Politics, Philosophy and Economics, 6 (3), 285-306, 2007.

Book Chapters

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Irreversible Loss

In: Oxford Handbook of Intergenerational Ethics. Ed. Stephen Gardiner. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2022. Oxford Scholarship Online.

Social Epistemology

(with Franz Dietrich). In: The Handbook of Rationality. Eds. Marcus Knauff and Wolfgang Spohn. Cambridge (MA) and London: MIT Press. 2021. 579-90 Published version.

Jury Theorems

(With Franz Dietrich). Stanford Encycplopedia of Philosophy. Ed. Edward N. Zalta, 2021. Published Version.

Jury Theorems

(with Franz Dietrich). In: The Routledge Handbook of Social Epistemology. Eds. Miranda Fricker, Peter J Graham, David Henderson, Nikolaj Pedersen & Jeremy Wyatt. New York and London: Routledge. 2020. Preprint PDF.

The Condorcet Jury Theorem and Voter-Specific Truth

(With Christian List). Alvin Goldman and His Critics, Eds. Hilary Kornblith and Brian McLaughlin. Chichester: Wiley. 2016. 216-233. Preprint PDF.

Four Types of Moral Wriggle Room: Uncovering Mechanisms of Racial Discrimination

In: Miranda Fricker and Michael Brady (eds.), The Epistemic Life of Groups: Essays in the Epistemology of Collectives. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2016. 173-188. Preprint PDF.

Rules, Norms and Commitment

(With Fabienne Peter). In: Ian Jarvie & Jesus Zamora-Bonilla, eds., Handbook of Philosophy of Social Science. SAGE. 2010. 216-232. Preprint PDF.

What the Neighbours Think: State Building, Esteem, and Political Culture

In: Julia Raue & Patrick Sutter, eds., Facets and Practices of State Building, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Leiden and Boston. 2009.

Book Reviews and Other Smaller Pieces

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How (Not) to Model Diversity

2024. Forthcoming in PVS Politische Vierteljahresschrift as part of a Debatte “Does Diversity Trump Ability” (ed. Peter Niesen). Now available open access.

Book Review: Group Duties: Their Existence and Their Implications for Individuals, by Stephanie Collins

Mind, Online First, 2020. Preprint PDF.

Reduction of Surprise: Some thoughts on Dowding’s Conception of Explanation

Political Studies Review 15(2), 187-193, 2017. Preprint PDF.

Book Review: Explaining Norms, Geoffrey Brennan, Lina Eriksson, Robert E. Goodin and Nicholas Southwood

Economics and Philosophy, 31(1), 175-181, 2015. Preprint PDF.

Predicting When the Mob is Smart

Review of WISER: Getting Beyond Groupthink to Make Groups Smarter, by Cass R. Sunstein and Reid Hastie. In: The New Rambler. 2015. Link.

Book review: Framing democracy: a behavioral approach to democratic theory, Jamie Terence Kelly

Ethics, 123(3), 568-572, 2013. Preprint PDF.

Review: Beyond Humanity? The Ethics of Biomedical Enhancement, Allen Buchanan

Revista de Direito Sanitario - Journal of Health Law 12(1), 293 - 302, 2011. Preprint PDF.