Hélène 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.

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

Hélène published her first book on “Hume: Probability and Reasonable Choice” (Paris PUF 2004). "She is the co-author (with Jon Elster) of an edited volume on Collective Wisdom: Principles and Mechanisms (Cambridge University Press, In Press (forthcoming Spring 2012). Her articles have been published in the Journal of Moral Philosophy, Critical Review, and Raison Publique. She is currently working on several projects, including a collaboration with the psychologist Hugo Mercier on the evolutionary function of deliberation (see http://sites.google.com/site/hugomercier/theargumentativetheoryofreasoning and http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1660695)

Hélène's book manuscript "Democratic Reason: Politics, Collective Intelligence, and the Rule of the Many" is now forthcoming with Princeton University Press.

She is currently co-organizing the conference "Epistemic Democracy in
Practice" with Susan Stokes (Yale University) and Bjørn Erik Rasch (University
of Oslo): see http://www.uio.no/english/research/interfaculty-research-areas/democracy/news-and-events/events/seminars/2011/oslo-yale-int-workshop.html

Campus address: 115 Prospect St., Rosenkranz Hall, Room 305
Phone: 203-432-5824
Email Address: helene.landemore@yale.edu
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