Helene Landemore

 

Helene Landemore

Graduate Student
[ Curriculum Vitae ]
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helene.landemore@college-de-france.fr
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Collège de France
3 rue d'Ulm
75 005 Paris, France
Thesis Title: Democratic Reason: Politics, Collective Intelligence, and the Rule of the Many
Major Field: Theory
Advisors: Chair:Richard Tuck Jon Elster Jane Mansbridge Nancy Rosenblum

Biographical Note:

A French citizen, Hélène graduated from the Ecole Normale Supérieure and Sciences-Po in Paris. Her dissertation (Ph.D. 2008) is on the idea of collective intelligence as an argument for democracy. She is currently working at the Collège de France in Paris as a research assistant for Professeur Jon Elster, with whom she recently organized a conference on Collective Wisdom (http://www.college-de-france.fr/default/EN/all/rat_soc/colloques.htm). She will be a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Brown University in the Fall of 2008 and a Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT for the following year and a half.

Papers:

Democratic Reason and Distributed Intelligence: Lessons from the Cognitive Sciences Paper presented at the American Political Science Association (APSA) Annual Meeting, Chicago, August 31, 2007.
Politics and the Economist-King: Is Rational Choice the Science of Choice? Journal of Moral Philosophy, 1.2 (2004) 177-196.
Hume. Probability and Reasonable Choice Article based on a partial translation of my French book "Hume. Probabilite et choix raisonnable" (PUF: 2004) This article was nominated for the Pi Sigma Alpha Award for the best paper presented at the 2007 WPSA meeting.
On Animal Rights "Why should one reject the motion intending to remove animals from the status of property," in Fiery Cushman, Marc D. Hauser, and Matthew Kamen (eds), People, Property, or Pets?, Purdue University Press, 2006, pp. 65-76.