- Luc Bovens
Dr Luc Bovens is a Belgian professor of philosophy at the
London School of Economics , and former editor of "Economics and Philosophy ". His main areas of research are moral andpolitical philosophy ,philosophy of economics , philosophy ofpublic policy ,Bayesian epistemology ,rational choice theory , andvoting theory . He has also published work, of some controversy to the anti-abortion movement, on issues regarding abortion and natural family planning methods of contraception [ [http://www.lse.ac.uk/people/l.bovens@lse.ac.uk/ Professor Luc Bovens ] ] [ [http://www.bovens.org/ index ] ] .Biography
Bovens attended the
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium, studying Social Sciences, before moving to theUniversity of Minnesota ,Minneapolis . Here he completed an MA in Sociology, an MA in philosophy and a PhD in philosophy in 1990.He was a research assistant in the
National Fund for Scientific Research in Belgium, before gaining a professorship in the department of philosophy at theUniversity of Colorado at Boulder in 1990.Bovens was Director of the [http://www.uni-konstanz.de/ppm Philosophy, Probability and Modeling (PPM)] research group with [http://stephanhartmann.org Stephan Hartmann] at the
University of Konstanz , Germany from 2002-2005, and an editor of "Economics and Philosophy " from 2002-2007.He has been a professor in the department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method at the
London School of Economics since 2004 [ [http://www.bovens.org/ index ] ] .References
elect Bibliography
Books
*"Bayesian Epistemology", Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2003 (with Stephan Hartmann)
*"Nancy Cartwright’s Philosophy of Science" Forthcoming, Routledge, 2007 (Edited with Stephan Hartmann and Carl Hoefer)Articles
*'The Rhythm Method and Embryonic Death', "Journal of Medical Ethics", 32, (2006), pp. 355-56. :Article reviewed in the "
New York Times ", June 13, 2006.
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