Lukas Beck is a Philosopher of Science. As part of the working group on Scientific Assessments, Ethics and Public Policy and a member of the Rivet Project, he currently focuses on developing a deliberative approach to the integration of diverse values in model-based climate economics in order to improve decision-making at the science-policy interface.
Before joining the MCC, Lukas Beck was a PhD candidate in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge, where he wrote a thesis on different interpretations of fundamental concepts in choice- and game theory. He completed his B.A. and an M.A. in Philosophy and Economics at the University of Bayreuth.
You can find more information about him on his personal website (here)
Research & Teaching interests:
- Values in science and the normativity of science, especially the role of (non-epistemic) values in economic models, the role of idealizations in normative models, and participatory and deliberative frameworks for guiding value judgments in science
- Philosophy of Economics, especially experimental economics and behavioral welfare economics
- The intersection between economics and cognitive science, especially functionalism and the status of dual process theory as an account of reasoning
Recent publications:
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
Beck, L. (forthcoming). The Econ within or the Econ above? On the plausibility of preference purification. Economics and Philosophy.
Other publications
Beck, L., (2017). Can economics be a separate science. Rerum Causae, 9(2).
