Enseignants/Instructors: Emmanuel Picavet (Centre de Philosophie Contemporaine de la Sorbonne) and Marcus Pivato (Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne) 

Emails: emmanuel.Picavet@univ-paris1.fr,   marcuspivato@gmail.com or Marcus.Pivato@univ-paris1.fr .

Cours/Classes: Tuesdays 16h30-19h30.

Course outline

Advice for writing term papers.

Video recordings of lectures

• January 16

• January 23

• January 30

• February 6 (recording of second half of lecture lost due to software error)

• February 13

• February 27

• March 5

• March 12 (no sound in recording due to software error)

Literature for Pivato's part of the course

Littérature exigée/Required readings:

• John A. Weymark, in “Social welfare functions”,  pp.126-159 of  The Oxford Handbook of Well-Being and Public Policy .
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• Hilary Greaves,  “Population axiology.” Philosophy Compass 12, no. 11 (2017): e12442.

• Walter Bossert, “Anonymous welfarism, critical-level principles, and the repugnant and sadistic conclusions”, pp.63-85 of The Oxford Handbook of Population Ethics 

• Johanna Thoma,  “Decision theory”,  pp. 57-106 of The Open Handbook of Formal Epistemology.

Littérature recommandée/Recommended readings:

On social welfare

• Section 4 of Marc Fleurbaey, “Normative Economics and Economic Justice”, in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

• Section 4 of Christian List, “Social Choice Theory”, in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 

On population ethics

• Charles Blackorby, Walter Bossert, and David Donaldson, “Population Ethics”, Chapter 20 (pp.483-500) of The Handbook of Rational and Social Choice

• Gustaf Arrhenius, Jesper Ryberg, and Torbjörn Tännsjö, “The Repugnant Conclusion”, in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy .

• John Broome, "The well-being of future generations",  pp.901-928 of The Oxford Handbook of Well-Being and Public Policy.

On normative decision theory

• Bradley, Richard. “Decision theory: a formal philosophical introduction”, pp. 611-655 of   Introduction to Formal Philosophy, Springer, 2018.

• Jürgen Eichberger and David Kelsey, “Ambiguity”, Chapter 4 (pp.113-139) of The Handbook of Rational and Social Choice.

• Katie  Steele and H. Orri Stefánsson, “Decision Theory”, in  The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

• R. A. Briggs, “Normative Theories of Rational Choice: Expected Utility”, in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

Littérature supplémentaire/Further literature (for term paper)

• Claude d'Aspremont and Louis Gevers. “Social welfare functionals and interpersonal comparability.”   Chapter 10 (pp. 459-541)  of Kenneth J. Arrow, Amartya Sen, and Kotaro Suzumura, eds. Handbook of Social Choice and Welfare. Volume 1. Elsevier, 2002.

• Charles Blackorby,  Walter Bossert, and David Donaldson. “Utilitarianism and the theory of justice.” Chapter 11 (pp. 543-596)  of Handbook of Social Choice and Welfare, Volume 1 (op. cit.) 

• Matthew Adler, Measuring Social Welfare, Oxford University Press, 2019.

• John E. Roemer, Theories of distributive justice. Harvard University Press, 1996.

• Kenneth J. Arrow, Amartya Sen, and Kotaro Suzumura, eds. Handbook of Social Choice and Welfare. Volume 2. Elsevier, 2010.

• Salvador Barbera, Peter Hammond, and Christian Seidl, eds. Handbook of Utility Theory: Volume 1: Principles.  Springer, 1998.

• Salvador Barbera, Peter Hammond, and Christian Seidl, eds. Handbook of Utility Theory: Volume 2: Extensions. Springer, 2004.

• Other articles in The Oxford Handbook of Well-Being and Public Policy (op. cit.), The Oxford Handbook of Population Ethics (op. cit.), The Handbook of Rational and Social Choice (op. cit.),  Handbook of Social Choice and Welfare, Volume 1 (op. cit.) and  The Open Handbook of Formal Epistemology (op. cit.).

Literature for Picavet's part of the course

Littérature exigée/Required readings:

• Hervé Moulin, Théorie des jeux pour l'économie et la politique (Paris, Hermann, 1981)

• David K. Lewis, Convention. (Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1969). 

• Gerald Gaus, John Thrasher, Philosophy, Politics, and Economics: An Introduction (Princeton UP 2021)

• James Morrow, Game Theory for Political Scientists (Princeton UP 1995)

Lectures parallèles/Side readings:

Lesson 1

• Amartya Sen, "Rational Fools" (article from Philosophy & Public Affairs) https://www.jstor.org/stable/2264946

• Michael Rescorla, "Convention" (article from: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/convention/

• Rainer Diaz-Bone, "Economics of Convention and its Perspective on Knowledge and Institutions" (From: Glückler, J., Suddaby, R., Lenz, R. (eds) Knowledge and Institutions, 13 ["Knowledge and Space"], 2018, Springer).  https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-75328-7_4

Lesson 2

• John F. Nash, Jr., "The Bargaining Problem" (article from Econometrica, 1950) https://www2.cs.siu.edu/~hexmoor/classes/CS539-F10/Bargaining.pdf

• Russell Hardin, "Bargaining for Justice" (article from: Social Philosophy and Policy, 1988) https://as.nyu.edu/content/dam/nyu-as/politics/documents/hardin_papers/Bargaining.pdf

Lesson 3

• Jeremy Schwartz, "Integrity: the virtue of compromise" (article from: Palgrave Communications, 2016) https://www.nature.com/articles/palcomms201685

• Berry Tholen, "Holding It All Together: on the Value of Compromise and the Virtue of Compromising" (article from: Human Studies, 2022) https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10746-022-09638-2

Lessons 4 

• Flore Bridoux & J.W. Stoelshorst, "Stakeholder theory, strategy, and organization: Past, present, and future" (article from: Strategic Organization, 2022) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14761270221127628

• Johanna Kujala, Sybille Sachs, Heta Leinonen, Anna Heikkinen & Daniel Laude, "Stakeholder Engagement: Past, Present, and Future" (article from: Business & Society, 2022). https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.1177/00076503211066595