Alexandru Marcoci
PhD Candidate in Philosophy
Philosophy, Logic & Scientific Method
London School of Economics
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Revised: May 12, 2015
Specialisation
AOS Epistemology, Rational Choice Theory, Philosophy of Science
AOC Philosophy of Social Science, Philosophy of Mathematics, Philosophy of Language, Logic
Education
2012–16 PhD Philosophy, London School of Economics.
Formal Explorations in the Limits of Rationality
(Supervisor: Luc Bovens)
2011–12 MSc Philosophy of Science, London School of Economics, Double distinction.
Two Resolutions to the Absentminded Driver Problem
(Supervisor: Luc Bovens)
2008–10 MSc Logic, Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, Amsterdam.
The Surprise Exam Paradox in Dynamic Epistemic Logic
(Supervisors: Johan van Benthem and Sonja Smets)
2005–08 BA Philosophy, University of Bucharest.
Employment
01/13- Graduate Teaching Assistant, London School of Economics.
Teaching classes in logic, philosophy of science and evidence-based policy
11/14- Editorial Assistant, Global Justice: Theory Practice Rhetoric.
10/12- Communications Officer, Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science.
Website design and management, social media and general communications.
Teaching
Graduate Teaching Assistant
PH101 Logic: 2012-15, for John Worrall. Class teaching and exam marking
PH231 Evidence and Policy: 2014-15, for John Worrall. Class teaching and exam marking
PH201 Philosophy of Science: 2013-14 for Miklós Rédei. Class teaching and exam marking
Guest Lecturer
08/13 Government and Politics Course, Choice 2013 Summer School.
Grants and Awards
2015 Honourable commendation for excellent class teaching.
For class teaching in the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method at the LSE. Awarded on
the basis of student satisfaction surveys.
2014 LSE Students Union Teaching Excellence Award.
For "Collaborative Research and Guidance". This is a school-wide prize awarded by the Students’ Union
and the Teaching and Learning Centre based on nomination letters received from students. In 2014 there
were 450 members of staff nominated ranging from GTAs to Professors. I was one of the 7 winners.
1/5
2012 Imre Lakatos Prize.
Best overall performance (including dissertation) in the MSc Philosophy of Science at LSE.
Conference Organisation Grants
06/15 British Society for the Philosophy of Science
06/14 British Society for the Philosophy of Science
06/14 LSE Annual Fund
Travel Grants
06/15
03/15
11/14
11/14
07/14
07/14
06/13
09/11
Postgraduate Travel Grant for Objectivity 2015, University of Tilburg
Postgraduate Travel Grant for Pitt-CMU Graduate Conference, Carnegie Mellon University
LSE Postgraduate Travel Grant
LSE Postgraduate Travel Grant
British Society for the Philosophy of Science
LSE Postgraduate Travel Grant
Society for Applied Philosophy
Analysis Trust
Study Scholarships
2012-15
2011-12
2011-12
2008-10
2005-08
British Society for the Philosophy of Science Doctoral Scholarship
Imre Lakatos MSc Scholarship, LSE
Open Horizons Scholarship, Dinu Patriciu Foundation, Bucharest
Huygens Scholarship, Dutch Ministry of Education
Study Scholarship, University of Bucharest
Publications
Reviews
2015 "Review of Quitting Certainties: A Bayesian Framework Modeling Degrees of Belief, Michael
G. Titelbaum. Oxford University Press, 2013, xii + 345 pages". Economics and Philosophy
31(1):195-200
Conference Proceedings
2012 "The Surprise Examination Paradox in Dynamic Epistemic Logic", in Demey, L., de Vuyst, J.
(eds), Proceedings of PhDs in Logic III, Brussels, Belgium, 17 & 18 February 2011, London:
College Publications
Editorial work
2014 Logic and Interactive Rationality Yearbook 2012, co-edited with Zoé Christoff, Paolo Galeazzi,
Nina Gierasimczuk and Sonja Smets (2 volumes)
2012 Logic and Interactive Rationality Yearbook 2011, co-edited with Alexandru Baltag, Davide Grossi,
Ben Rodenhauser and Sonja Smets
Work in progress
"Correcting Inconsistencies in the Book of Nature" (with James Nguyen)
"On the Rationality of Theory Choice" (with James Nguyen)
"Should We Treat Self-Locating Beliefs with Indifference?"
"Solving the Absentminded Driver Problem Through Deliberation"
"On the Limits of Fairness: Local and Global Fairness"
"In Defense of Fair Lotteries"
"On the Stability of the Stability Theory of Belief"
2/5
"Review of Evidence, Decision and Causality by Arif Ahmed, Cambridge University Press", for
the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
Conference Presentations
Theory Choice vs. Social Choice (with James Nguyen)
23-26/09/15 "On the Rationality of Theory Choice," Theory Choice meets Social Choice Symposium, EPSA
2015, Düsseldorf
10-12/06/15 "Scientific Objectivity and Rationality: a dilemma," 8th Munich-Sydney-Tilburg Conference in
Philosophy of Science, Tilburg
20-21/03/15 "On the Rationality of Theory Choice," 17th Annual Pitt/CMU Graduate Student Philosophy
Conference, Pittsburgh.
2-3/09/14 "Should the virtue pluralist fear Arrovian Nihilism?" First London Philosophy of Science Graduate
Workshop, London (Presented by James Nguyen)
The Absentminded Driver Paradox
6-8/11/14 "Solving the Absentminded Driver Problem Through Deliberation," The Twenty-Fourth Biennial
Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Chicago
10-11/07/14 "Solving the Absentminded Driver Problem Through Deliberation," Annual Conference of the
British Society for the Philosophy of Science, Cambridge
08-10/07/13 "Beliefs and Strategies in Decision Problems with Imperfect Information," Games and Decisions,
Pisa (Invited)
The Numbers Problem
24-27/06/13 "In defense of fair lotteries," British Postgraduate Philosophy Association Conference, Glasgow
17-19/06/13 "In defense of fair lotteries," Second Reasoning Club Conference, Pisa (Invited)
Procedural Information in Dynamic Epistemic Logic
07/07/11 "Procedural Information: Computer Science, Game Theory, Philosophy," Ontological, Epistemological and Methodological Aspects of CS, Stuttgart
The Surprise Exam Paradox in Dynamic Epistemic Logic
21/02/11 "The Surprise Examination Paradox in Dynamic Epistemic Logic," Logic Tea, Amsterdam (Invited)
17-18/02/11 "The Surprise Examination Paradox in Dynamic Epistemic Logic," PhDs in Logic III, Brussels
16-20/08/10 "The Surprise Examination Paradox in Dynamic Epistemic Logic," Workshop on Logic, Rationality
and Intelligent Interaction, Copenhagen (Invited)
Thought Experiments in Philosophy
21-26/08/08 "Thought Experiments: inferential vs. explanatory," 6th European Congress of Analytical
Philosophy, Krakow
30-05/08/08 "New Work for Thought Experiments," 22nd World Congress in Philosophy, Seoul
Replies
19-20/05/15 "Reply to ’Shape Perception in a Relativistic Universe’ by Peter Epstein", The 12th Annual
Berkeley-London Philosophy Conference, Berkeley.
27/02/15 "‘Why Epistemic Normativity Won’t Come From What is Constitutive of Belief’ by Charles
Coté-Bouchard," Institute of Philosophy: Spring Graduate Philosophy Conference, London
07/02/14 "’Collective Responsibility in the Absence of Collective Agency’, by R. Bascara," Institute of
Philosophy: Spring Graduate Philosophy Conference, London
09/12/12 "’Evans’s Attack on Tense Logic’, by J. MacIntosh, "Institute of Philosophy: Winter Graduate
Philosophy Conference, London
3/5
22-25/09/11 "’A Physical Argument Against Composition’, by J. Erhardt," British Postgraduate Philosophy
Association Conference, Reading
Impact
Research
My MSc dissertation "The Surprise Exam Paradox in Dynamic Epistemic Logic" was: Cited in
Ardeshir, M. and R. Ramezanian. "A solution to the surprise exam paradox in constructive
mathematics." The Review of Symbolic Logic 5 (2012): 679-686; and assigned as a required
reading for PHIL 290-7 Graduate Seminar: Epistemic Logic & Epistemology, Fall 2012, University
of Berkeley.
Civil Service
03-06/11 I wrote several reports on the position of the Netherlands before meetings of the Council of the
European Union. Some of these reports were included in the official briefing of the Romanian
delegation attending the meetings (ministerial level).
Public Engagement
9-10/07/15 Teacher for the Harris Experience Summer School, Kenwood House, London
26/06/14 Panellist for the Forum for European Philosophy - Philosophy Challenge, LSE
2013 LSE Research Festival video entry on Rational Deliberation
2011 Collaborated with Hollybush Gardens Gallery in London for the exhibition "Logical Paintings: A
to E" by Benoit-Marie
Service to the Profession
Refereeing
2015
2014
2014
2014
2014
2013
Eight Workshop in Decision, Games and Logic, LSE, 17-19 June
Review of Symbolic Logic
Fourth LSE Graduate Conference in Philosophy of Probability, 6-7 June 2014
Philosophia
British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
Stat. The ISI’s Journal for the Rapid Dissemination of Statistics Research
Conference Organisation
23-26/09/15 Symposium on Theory Choice meets Social Choice meets Theory Choice at The Fifth Biennial
Conference of the European Philosophy of Science Association (EPSA15) Düsseldorf, Germany
2015 Eight Workshop in Decision, Games and Logic, LSE, 17-19 June
2014 Fourth LSE Graduate Conference in Philosophy of Probability, LSE, 6-7 June
Research Seminar Organisation
2012- The Choice Group Seminar Series, LSE
2011- Lent Reading Group in Philosophical Logic, LSE
03-08/11 Logic and Interactive Rationality Seminar, ILLC, Amsterdam
Departmental Committee
2011-2014 Student Representative in the Student-Staff Liaison Committee, LSE. Responsible for the Department’s PhD placement record.
Graduate Coursework
London School of Economics
2014-15 Research Methods in Philosophy: The Stability Theory of Belief (David Makinson)∗
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2013-14
2013-14
2013-14
2013-14
2012-13
2012-13
2012-13
2012-13
Problems of Analytic Philosophy (Foad Dizadji-Bahmani and Christian List)
Set Theory and Further Logic (Miklós Rédei and David Makinson)
Choice Group (Richard Bradley)
Methodology of the Social Sciences (Luc Bovens)
Research Methods in Philosophy: Philosophical Logic (David Makinson)∗
Philosophy of Science (Miklös Rédei)
Evidence, Objectivity and Policy (Nancy Cartwright, Roman Frigg and John Worrall)
Rationality and Choice (Richard Bradley, Nick Baigent, Wulf Gaertner)
University of Amsterdam
2009-10
2009-10
2009-10
2009-10
2009-10
2008-09
2008-09
2008-09
2008-09
2008-09
2008-09
2008-09
2008-09
Philosophical Logic (Catarina Dutilh Novaes)
Intuitionistic Logic (Dick de Jongh)
Dynamic Epistemic Logic (Johan van Benthem)
Advanced Introduction to Philosophy of Language
Vagueness, Reasoning and Language (Lucian Zãgan)
Introduction to Modal Logic (Alessandra Palmigiano)∗
Model Theory (Jouko Väänänen)∗
Axiomatic Set Theory (Jouko Väänänen)
Introduction to Game Theory (Peter van Emde Boas)
Meaning, Reference and Modality (Paul Dekker)
Core Logic (Benedikt Loewe)
Kant, Logic and Cognition (Michiel van Lambalgen)
Philosophy of Mathematics (Benedikt Loewe)
University of Groningen
2009-10 Logics of Information Change (Barteld Kooi and Sonja Smets)
2009-10 Dynamic Interactive Belief Revision (Sonja Smets)
∗ I only attended these courses and my participation was not formally assessed.
Computer Skills
LATEX, Mathematica, SPSS (Basic knowledge), HTML, Wordpress, Contensis Management System, Adobe
Illustrator, Moodle.
References
Luc Bovens
Professor of Philosophy and Head of Department
Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method
London School of Economics and Political Science
[email protected]
Miklós Rédei
Professor of Philosophy
Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method
London School of Economics and Political Science
[email protected]
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