Helene Landemore

Hélène Landemore (Ph.D. Harvard University 2008) is Assistant Professor of Political Science. Before coming to Yale, she held successive post-doctoral positions at the Collège de France in Paris (Chaire de Rationalité et Sciences Sociales), Brown University (Political Theory Project), and M.I.T.

Helene’s research interests include democratic theory, theories of justice, the philosophy of social sciences (particularly economics) and the history of thought (particularly Enlightenment thinkers).

Helene published her first book on “Hume: Probability and Reasonable Choice” (Paris PUF 2004). She is currently working on getting her dissertation published (“Democratic Reason: Politics, Collective Intelligence, and the Rule of the Many”), as well as various articles and a collective volume on Collective Wisdom (co-edited with Jon Elster).

In the Fall Term 09 she will teach “The Idea of Justice in Western Thought;” in the Spring Term 10, she will offer two seminars in Political Theory, one on “Freedom” for undergraduates and one on “Deliberation and Democracy” for graduate students.

Campus address: 115 Prospect St., Rosenkranz Hall, Room 305
Phone: 432-3399
Email Address: helene.landemore@yale.edu