Decision Theory

Faculty working in Decision Theory

In a Banner Year for Hiring, Illinois Philosophy Welcomes Three New Tenure-Track Faculty Members
The Philosophy Department is happy to announce a banner year in hiring, with 3 exciting new members of our tenure-track faculty. Please join us in welcoming Professors Alison Duncan Kerr, Kevin...
Illinois Philosophy Welcomes Professor Kar as New Department Head
The College of Liberal Arts & Sciences has appointed Professor Robin Kar as the new Interim Department Head of the...
Philosophy Professor Ben Levinstein studying Artificial Intelligence through Mellon Grant
Ben Levinstein is professor of philosophy at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, specializing in Epistemology and Decision Theory. In 2020, Professor Ben Levinstein was awarded a multi-year...

Alison Duncan Kerr
Alison Duncan Kerr is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy, with broad research interests in feminist philosophy, the philosophy of gender, sex, and love, logic, theories of rationality, and the...
Becoming Someone New: Essays on Transformative Experience, Choice, and Change (eds. by Lambert and Schwenkler)
This 2020 volume brings together philosophers and psychologists to investigate the phenomenon of transformative change and a host of fascinating questions it prompts. The authors pursue fundamental...
Robin Kar
Robin (Rob) Kar is a Professor of Law and Philosophy and current Head of the Philosophy Department. His research interests range from ethics, meta-ethics, moral psychology, political philosophy,...
Ben Levinstein
Ben Levinstein is an assistant professor at the University of Illinois, who specializes in formal epistemology, decision theory, philosophy of science, and—increasingly—in the ethics and philosophy...