(Harvard) Detur Prize, Harvard College Scholarship, John Harvard Scholarship, Phi Beta Kappa, Magna Cum Laude

(Columbia) Honorary Fellow, Honorary President's Fellow, F.J.E. Woodbridge Distinguished Fellow, Bancroft Award

1. Capital, Profits and Prices: An Essay in the Philosophy of Economics. New York: Columbia University Press, 1981.
2. The Philosophy of Economics: An Anthology. (ed.) New York: Cambridge University Press, 1984. Second edition New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994; Third edition New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007; Roumanian language edition. Bucharest: Editura Humanitas, 1993. Chinese translation by Ding Jianfeng, Shanghai: Shanghai People's Publishing, 2007. Forthcoming in a Russian translation from the Institute for the Economy in Transition.
3. The Inexact and Separate Science of Economics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
4. Essays on Philosophy and Economic Methodology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
5. Economic Analysis and Moral Philosophy. Cambridge University Press, 1996 (with Michael S. McPherson). Swedish translation from Studentlitteratur Publishing. Spanish translation by Mauricio Luis Grobet Vallarta of Economic Analysis and Moral Philosophy. Mexico: Centrol de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2007.
6. Economic Methodology: Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries. London: Macmillan, 1998 (edited with Roger Backhouse, Uskali Mäki, and Andrea Salanti).
7. Causal Asymmetries. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
8. Economic Analysis, Moral Philosophy, and Public Policy. Cambridge University Press, 2006 (with Michael S. McPherson – a revised and expanded edition of #5). Chinese translation in 2007 from Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences. Korean translation in 2010 by Dong-Ryul Choo from Nanam Publishing.
9. Preference, Value, and Choice and Welfare. Cambridge University Press, 2011.
10. Valuing Health: Well-Being, Freedom, and Suffering. Oxford University Press, 2015.
11. Economic Analysis, Moral Philosophy, and Public Policy. 3rd edition. Cambridge University Press, 2017 (with Michael S. McPherson and Debra Satz).

1. of Microeconomic Laws: A Philosophical Analysis by Alexander Rosenberg, NOUS 13 (1979): 118-22.
2. of Models of Man: Philosophical Thoughts on Social Action by Martin Hollis, Journal of Philosophy, 76 (1979): 386-91.
3. of What Is and What Ought to be Done by Morton White, Journal of Philosophy, 80 (1983): 312-15.
4. of The Rise and Decline of Nations by Mancur Olson, QQ: Report from the Center for Philosophy and Public Policy, vol. 3 no. 2 (Spring, 1983): 13-14.
5. "Is Utilitarianism Useless?" (Review of Morality Within the Limits of Reason by Russell Hardin) Theory and Decision 30 (1991): 273-78.
6. "Lakatos Again: A Review of Neil de Marchi and Mark Blaug (eds.) Appraising Economic Theories: Studies in the Methodology of Research Programs," Methodus 5(1993): 150-53.
7. of Thomas A. Boylan and Paschal F. O'Gorman, Beyond Rhetoric and Realism in Economics: Towards a Reformulation of Economic Methodology, Economic Journal 106 (1996): 1077-79.
8. of John Bonner, Economic Efficiency and Social Justice: The Development of Utilitarian Ideas in Economics from Bentham to Edgeworth, The Manchester School 63 (1996), pp. 440-41.
9. of M.R. Griffiths and J.R. Lucas, Ethical Economics. Economic Journal 107 (1997): 1896-98.
10. of Vivian Walsh, Rationality, Allocation, and Reproduction. Journal of Philosophy 95 (1998): 427-30.
11. of Adam Seligman, The Problem of Trust. Contemporary Sociology 27 (1998): 268-70.
12. of Steven Rappaport, Models and Reality in Economics.Economic Journal 109 (1999): 214-16.
13. of John Davis, D. Wade Hands, and Uskali Mäki, eds. The Handbook of Economic Methodology," Economics and Philosophy 15 (1999): 289-95.
14. “Review of Cost-Value Analysis in Health Care: Making Sense out of QALYs by Erik Nord. Economics and Philosophy 16 (2000): 346-53.
15. of Ian Carter, A Measure of Freedom. Economic Journal 111 (2001): 137-39.
16. of Martha Nussbaum, Women and Human Development: The Capabilities Approach. Journal of Economic Literature 39 (2001): 152-3.
17. of D.Wade Hands, Reflection without Rules: Economic Methodology and Contemporary Science Theory. Journal of Economic Literature 39 (2001): 902-4.
18. of Mary Morgan and Margaret Morrison, eds., Models as Mediators: Perspectives on Natural and Social Science. Journal of the History of Economic Thought 23 (2001): 399-402.
19. of On the Methodology of Economics and the Formalist Revolution by Terence Hutchison,” Economic Record 77 (2001): 314-17.
20. of Phil Dowe, Physical Causation. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 33(2002): 717-24.
21. “Taking Causal Questions Seriously. A Review of Kevin Hoover’s Causality in Macroeconomics and The Methodology of Empirical Macroeconomics." Journal of Economic Methodology 10 (2003): 259-69.
22. of Michael Mandler, Dilemmas in Economic Theory: Persisting Foundational Problems of Microeconomics.Economica 70 (2003): 568-69.
23. of E. Roy Weintraub, How Economics Became a Mathematical Science," Philosophia Mathematica 11(2003): 354-58.
24. of Philip Kitcher, Science, Truth, and Democracy. Ethics 113 (2003): 423-28.
25. of Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness. Economics and Philosophy 20 (2004): 240-46.
26. of Mark Sagoff, Price, Principle, and the Environment. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, February 15, 2005: http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=1961
27. of John Broome, Weighing Lives. Mind 114:718-22.
28. of Russell Hardin, Indeterminacy and Society. Ethics 116 (2006): 425-28.
29. "Whither Economics and Philosophy? A Review of The Elgar Companion to Economics and Philosophy," Journal of Economic Methodology 13 (2006): 507-21.
30. "Review of Causation, Physics, and the Constitution of Reality: Russell's Republic Revisited. Edited by Huw Price and Richard Corry," in Studies in the History and Philosophy of Physics 39 (2008): 231-33.
31. "Review of Mill's On Liberty: A Critical Guide," Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, http://ndpr.nd.edu .
32. of Shlomi Segall, Health, Luck and Justice. Economics and Philosophy 27 (2011): 190-98.
33. of Uskali Mäki, ed. The Methodology of Positive Economics: Reflections on the Milton Friedman Legacy. History of Political Economy 44 (2012): 553-55.
34. of Matthew Adler, Well-Being and Fair Distribution. Economics and Philosophy 28 (2012): 435-43.
35. “Much Ado about Models,” Review of Mary Morgan, The World in the Model: How Economists Work and Think. Journal of Economic Methodology. 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1350178X.2015.10375461.
36. of John Staddon, Scientific Method: How Science Works, Fails to Work, and Pretends to Work. History of Political Economy 51(2019): 383-85.

• "Liability, Responsibility and Harm," Weingart Conference, California Institute of Technology, March, 1985.
• "Rhetoric and Methodology in Economics" Center for Twentieth Century Studies, University of Wisconsin/Milwaukee, April, 1985.
• "An Appraisal of Popperian Economic Methodology," Johns Hopkins University, November, 1985 and University of Amsterdam, December, 1985.
• "Popper Misapprehended," American Economic Association Meetings, December, 1985.
• "The Deficit and Our Obligations to Future Generations--A Comment," Baruch College, February, 1986.
• "Explanatory Asymmetries," Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh, September, 1986.
• "Workshop on General Equilibrium Theories," Philosophy of Science Association Meetings, October, 1986.
• "Directions in Economic Methodology," American Economic Association Meetings, December, 1986.
• "Causal Priority," University of Rochester, January, 1987.
• "A Critique of Popperian Epistemology," Allegheny College, February, 1987.
• "The Insufficiency of Nomological Explanation," University of Pittsburgh, March, 1987.
• "Structural Equations and Qualitative Physics," Carnegie-Mellon University, March, 1987.
• "What Is Wrong with Popperian Economic Methodology," Troisième Cycle Romand en Economié Politique of the Universities of Fribourg, Geneve, Lausanne and Neuchâtel, March, 1987.
• "Popperian Economic Methodology and Austrian Economics," New York University, April, 1987.
• "Principals and Agents: Games and Morality," University of Delaware, June, 1987.
• "Arbitrage Arguments," at Philosophy of Economics II, University of Tilburg, July, 1987.
• "Explanation and Causation," University of Wisconsin/Madison, September 1987; University of Wisconsin/Milwaukee, October, 1987, Carnegie Mellon University, March, 1988, University of Canberra, August, 1989, University of Helsinki, February, 1990.
• "Decision Theory and the Deductive Method," Bowling Green State University, February, 1988.
• "Ceteris Paribus Clauses and Causality in Economics," Philosophy of Science Association Meetings, Evanston, Illinois, October, 1988.
• "Economic Methodology in a Nutshell," Department of Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, November, 1988.
• "Causation: From Metaphysics to Artificial Intelligence," A series of five lectures delivered to the Program in Cognitive Science, University of New South Wales, August, 1989.
• "Are Markets Morally Free Zones?" University of Sydney, August, 1989.
• "The "Science" of Creation and the Philosophy of Science," Lawrence University, November, 1989.
• "The Deductive Method," Northwestern University, Fall, 1989; University of Helsinki, May, 1990; Hungarian Academy of Arts and Sciences, Budapest, June 1990; Institute for Advanced Study, Vienna, June 1990
• "Why Look Under the Hood," Society of Finnish Economists, Lahti, Finland, February, 1990.
• "On Dogmatism in Economics: The Case of Preference Reversals," Helsinki University, February, 1990; University of Groningen, Groningen, Holland, June 1990; George Washington University, January, 1991; George Mason University, January, 1991; History of Economics Society, June, 1991.
• "On the Intermixture of Positive and Normative in Economics," University of Helsinki, February, 1990; University of Amsterdam, June 1990.
• "Interpersonal Utility Comparisons--A Theoretical Solution," University of Chicago, June 1990; University of Maryland, January, 1991.
• "When Jack and Jill Make a Deal," Conference on Economic Rights, San Diego, October, 1990.
• "Paul Samuelson as Dr. Frankenstein: When Idealizations Escape from their Models and Run Amuck," Conference on Idealizations in Economics, University of Tilburg, July, 1991.
• "Interpersonal Utility Comparisons, or Why Well-Being Cannot Be the Satisfaction of Preferences," University of Wisconsin-Madison, September, 1991.
• "Liberalism, Welfare Economics, and Freedom," Bowling Green State University, April, 1992.
• "Roundtable Discussion of The Inexact and Separate Science of Economics," History of Economic Society Meetings, George Mason University, June, 1992.
• "Taking Ethics Seriously," Tenth World Congress of the International Economic Association, Moscow, August, 1992.
• "Preference, Belief and Welfare," Allied Social Sciences Meetings, Boston, January, 1994 (with Michael S. McPherson).
• "Reply to Moseley, Reuten, and Rizvi," Allied Social Sciences Meetings, Boston, January, 1994.
• "The Impossibility of Interpersonal Utility Comparisons," London School of Economics and the University of Birmingham, May, 1994; University of East Anglia, July, 1994.
• "The Counterfactual Theory of Causation Reconsidered," London School of Economics, May, 1994; Centre du Recherche en Epistemologie Appliquée, October, 1994, University of Wisconsin-Madison, October 1995.
• "What's Wrong with Economics?" Cambridge University and the London School of Economics, May, 1994; University of Paris I, February, 1995. Université Catholique de Louvain-la-neuve, March, 1995.
• "Pluralities of Subject, Method, Goals and Visions," Conference on Pluralism in Economics and Philosophy, University of Bergamo, May, 1994.
• "Maximization and Optimization," Paris, February, 1995.
• "The Asymmetries of Causation," London School of Economics, April, 1995; University of Cergy-Pontoise, May, 1995; Centre du Recherche en Epistemologie Appliquée, Ecole Polytechnique, June, 1995.
• "Why Does Evidence Matter so Little in Economics," Finnish Program in Post-Graduate Economics, June, 1995; International Union for the History and Philosophy of Science (invited address), Florence, August 1995.
• "Rationality, Economic Well-Being and Preferences," Colloque sur L'Economie Normative, University of Paris, October, 1995.
• "Problems with Supply-Side Egalitarianism," Conference on Equality and Efficiency, University of Wisconsin, November, 1995.
• "Rationality and Knavery," University of Wisconsin-Madison, February, 1996; Duke University, March, 1996; University of Exeter, May 1996; Institute for the Vienna Circle, Vienna, June 1996; London School of Economics, London, January, 1997; California Institute of Technology, April 1997; Oxford University, May 1997.
• "Causation, Agency, and Independence," Duke University, March, 1996; Philosophy of Science Association Meetings, Cleveland, November, 1996.
• "Economists' Responses to Anomalies: Full-Cost Pricing versus Preference Reversals," Duke University, March, 1996.
• "Assessing Human Interactions," University of Bergamo, June, 1996.
• "Trust in Game Theory," Oxford University, May, 1997.
• "Revealed Preference and Belief," Université de Cergy Pontoise, University of Lund, Swedish Collegium for Advanced Studies of the Social Sciences, October, 1997; University of Rotterdam, February, 1998.
• “Manipulation and Factorizability,” School of Advanced Study in Philosophy, University of London, October, 1997.
• "Confirming Mainstream Economic Theory," Université de Cergy Pontoise and Lund University, October 1997; University of Rotterdam, February, 1998; London School of Economics, March 1998.
• "Explanation and Diagnosis in Economics," Cambridge University, November, 1997; London School of Economics, February, 1998.
• “What’s the Difference between Causes and Effects?” University of London, November, 1997; University of Warwick, January, 1998.
• “Incorporating Fairness and Trust into Game Theory,” London School of Economics, January and June 1998; University of East Anglia, February, 1998, University of Paris VII, April, 1998, Oxford University, May, 1998.
• “Does Economics Need Laws?” University of Amsterdam, February, 1998; London School of Economics, March, 1998; University of Vigo, March, 1999; University of La Coruña, March, 1999.
• “Realism as a Red Herring,” London School of Economics, February, 1998.
• “Cheers for Two Platitudes,” University of Bergamo, October, 1998.
• “Independence, Invariance, and the Causal Markov Condition,” University of Wisconsin, November, 1998.
• "Critical Realism and Theories of Open Systems," University of La Coruña, March, 1999.
• "Trust, Preference, and Interest," Northwestern University, April, 1999.
• "Trustworthiness and Self-Interest," University of Notre Dame, September, 1999.
• "Some Problems with Measuring the Burden of Disease by Aggregating Well-being," World Health Organization Conference on Summary Measures of Population Health, Marrakech, Morocco, December 1999.
• "Counterfactual Estimation of Health Consequences," World Health Organization Conference on Summary Measures of Population Health, Marrakech, Morocco, December 1999.
• "Preferences and the Value of Life," Conference on Matters of Life and Death, Rutgers University, March, 2000.
• "Why Not Just Ask? Preferences, “Empirical Ethics” and the Role of Philosophy," World Health Organization Meeting on Ethical Issues in Resource Allocation: Fairness and Goodness, Trivandrum, India, March, 2000, Program on Population Health, University of Wisconsin, February, 2001.
• "Equality vs. Priority: A Misleading Distinction," World Health Organization Meeting on Ethical Issues in Resource Allocation: Fairness and Goodness, Trivandrum, India, March, 2000 and University of Cergy-Pontoise, May, 2000.
• “Causal Relations Among Tokens, Types and Variables,” University of Maryland, May, 2000, Philosophy of Science Association, Vancouver, November 2000.
• “Rethinking Probabilistic Causality,” London School of Economics, May, 2000.
• “Theories, Models, and Toy Economies,” University of Zürich, October 2000.
• "Why Believe the Causal Markov Condition?" London School of Economics, May 2001; University of Genoa, September 2002.
• "Equality of Health," Laboratoire d'Econometrie, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, May 2001.
• "The Philosophical Foundations of Normative Economics," Conference on Development and the New Economy, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, March 2002; University of Adelaide, October 2003; Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve, January, 2004; Swarthmore College, February, 2004.
• “Probabilistic Causation and Practical Causal Generalizations,” Conference on Causation and Explanation, University of Ghent, May 2002; Duke University, March 2003, London School of Economics, May 2003; Monash University, October 2003; University of Sydney, October 2003.
• “Formal Theories and Formal Measures of Specific Freedoms” University of Pavia, Italy, September 2002.
• “Are Health Inequalities Unjust?” Law and Equality Lunch Series, University of Wisconsin-Madison, March 2003; Conference on “Priority in Practice,” University College, London, September, 2003; Conferences on Values in Economics, Australian National University Canberra, October, 2003; Stanford University, November, 2003.
• “Constructing Experimental Games,” Conference on Experimental Economics, University of Nottingham, September, 2003, University of Adelaide, October 2003; University of New South Wales, October 2003.
• "Measuring Health States: Passing the Buck," Harvard School of Public Health, October, 2003; University of Amsterdam, January, 2004; Department of Population Health, University of Wisconsin, February, 2004; London School of Economics, May 2004.
• "Agency, Preemption, and Transitivity," Workshop on Causal Inference, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences, November 2003.
• “Value Judgments and Value Neutrality in Economics: What Are the Questions?” University of Leuven, January, 2004.
• "Non-Welfarist Selective Outcome Egalitarianism: A Comment on Marc Fleurbaey's "Equality of Functionings," Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, April 2004.
• "Tokens, Types, and Variables," University of Konstanz, May, 2004.
• "Sympathy, Commitment, and Preference," Conference on Amartya Sen's Work, University of St. Gallen, May, 2004; Universitat Autonomia de Barcelona, May, 2004.
• "Causation and Ceteris Paribus Laws in Economics," Invited Address, British Society for Philosophy of Science, University of Kent, July, 2004.
• "Consequentialism and Preference Formation," Conference on Preference Formation, Cambridge University, July, 2004.
• "Democratic Sovereignty and the Regulation of Research," National Academies of Science Workshop on Guidelines Governing Stem Cell Research. Washington, October, 2004.
• "Evaluating Health Consequences: HALYs vs. WTP," Institute of Medicine Workshop to Evaluate Measures of Health Benefitgs for Environmental, Health, and Safety Regulation," Washington DC, November 2004.
• "Rationality and Preference," Conference on Jon Elster and Rational Choice Theory, New York University, December 2004.
• "Can Health-State Evaluation Rest on Preferences?" National Institute of Health, Washington DC, December 2004.
• "Social Scientific Naturalism and Experimentation in Economics," Pittsburgh-Carnegie Mellon Graduate Student Philosophy Conference, Keynote Address, April 2005, George Mason University, November 2005.
• "Rational Choice and Evaluation," Conference on Rational Choice and the Humanities, Stanford University, April 2005, University of Waterloo, September, 2005.
• "Collective Rationality, Agency and Consequentialism," Kline Memoral Conference. University of Missouri, October 2005.
• "Comment on Christopher Murray, 'Social Responsibility for Health,'" Inaugural Conference, Ethical Issues in Population Health: Mapping a New Agenda, Harvard University Program in Ethics and Health, November, 2005.
• "The Injustice of Health Inequalities," Harvard School of Public Health, February, 2006.
• "Health, Well-Being, and Preferences," Harvard University, February, 2006; Macalester College, April, 2006.
• "That Seventies Show," Conference on Issues in Economic Methodology. University of Alabama at Birmingham, May 2006.
• "Preferences," International Network for Economic Methodology, Grinnell College, June, 2006; Sociéte de Philosophie Analytique, Aix-en-Provence, September, 2006, Ohio University, October, 2006; Dalhousie University, March 2007.
• "Do Markets Undermine Equality," Conference on Equality and the Market, Stanford University, September, 2006.
• "Fairness and Social Norms," Philosophy of Science Association, Vancouver, November, 2006.
• "Valuing Health: A New Proposal," University College, London, November, 2006; University of Lille, October, 2007; University of Paris-Dauphine, October 2007.
• "Inequalities and Inequities in End-of-Life Care," End-of-Life Studies Consortium, Halifax, Nova Scotia, March 2007.
• "Experimenting on Models and on the World," American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division Meetings, April 2007.
• "Well-Being and Preference Satisfaction: An Evidential View," University of Pennsylvania Law School, April 2007.
• "Explanation as Citing Causes," Institut d'Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques, Paris, October, 2007; Conference on Causality in the Special Sciences, Venice, October, 2007.
• "Some Issues concerning Morality in Business," l'Haute Ecole de Commerce, Isle de France, October, 2007.
• "Wants, Beliefs, Norms and Preferences," University of California at Berkeley, School of Law, March, 2008.
• "Market Failure, Government Failure, and the Hard Problems of Cooperation." University of Montreal, April, 2008.
• "Pathology, Preference, Pleasure and Pursuit: Problems of Health Measurement." Harvard School of Public Health, April 2008.
• "A Critique of Mindless Economics," New York University, April 2008.
• "Preferences," Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China, March 2009.
• "Preference Satisfaction and Welfare Economics," Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China, March 2009; Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Shanghai, China, March 2009.
• "Hedonistic Welfare Economics," Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China, March 2009; Hampden-Sydney College, April 2009.
• "Egalitarianism," Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China, March 2009.
• "Philosophical Foundations of Normative Economics," Shanghai Academy of Social Science, Shanghai, China, March, 2009.
• "Pragmatics, Unification, Causation and Explanation," Bar-Hillel Colloquium, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, May 2009.
• "Six Mistakes about Preferences," Erasmus Institute for Philosophy of Economics, Rotterdam, October, 2009.
• "Valuing Health," Philosophy of Medicine Roundtable, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, October, 2009.
• "Capability Measures of Population Health," Workshop on Amartya Sen's The Idea of Justice, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, December, 2010.
• "Market Failures and Government Failures," Center for Liberal Democracy, University of Wisconsin, February, 2010.
• “Preferences,” Keynote Address, Philosophy of Social Science Roundtable, St. Louis University, March, 2010.
• “Fairness, Cost-Effectiveness, and Rationing,” Conference on “Reforming Health Care Rationally: Waste, Trade-offs, and Rationing,” University of Wisconsin-Madison Medical School, April, 2010.
• "Health Inequalities: What Data Are Relevant?" Brocher Foundation, Geneva, July, 2010.
• "Pathology, Preference, Pleasure and Pursuit: Problems of Health Measurement." Brocher Foundation, Geneva, July, 2010.
• "Egalitarian Critiques of Health Inequalities." Brocher Foundation, Geneva, July, 2010; Université de Paris – Descartes, November, 2010.
• “How Can Irregular Causal Generalizations Guide Practice?” Institut de l’Histoire et Philosophie de Sciences, Paris, November, 2010; Conference on Epidemiology, Cambridge (UK), December, 2010.
• “Some Mistakes about Preferences,” London School of Economics, London, December, 2010; Philosophy Department, University of Washington, February, 2011..
• “Is a Summary Measure of Population Health Possible?” Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, February, 2011.
• The 2010-2011 Romanell Lectures delivered at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
• Lecture 1: “Preferences – Clearing the Ground,” February 18, 2011.
• Lecture 2: “Preferences, Evaluation, and Explanatory Strategy,” February 21, 2011.
• Lecture 3: “Preferences, Welfare, and Welfare Economics,” Feburary 23, 2011.
• “Priorities and Preferences,” Symposium on “The Value of Health and the Rights of Patients,” Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, March, 2011.
• “The Sovereignty of the Nudged,” University of Minnesota at Mankato, March, 2011.
• “Injustice and Inequality in Health and Health Care,” Catholic University of Leuven, Leuven, May, 2011.
• “Some Misconceptions about Preferences,” Keynote Address, International Network for Economic Methodology, Helsinki, September, 2011.
• “Mäki’s MISS,” Conference in Honor of Uskali Mäki’s 60th Birthday, Helsinki, September 2011.
• “Preference, Value, Choice, and Welfare: At the Core of Economics,” International Symposium on Philosophy of Economics: History, Thought, Politics and Society, Salvador, Brazil, October, 2011.
• “Five Misconceptions Concerning Preferences,” University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, October, 2011.
• “A Qualified Defense of Cost-Benefit Analysis,” University of North Carolina at Greensboro, October, 2011.
• “Why Satisfy Preferences?” Conference on “New Frontiers in Normative Economics: Towards Behaviorally Informed Policy Making,” Freiburg, Germany, December, 2011.
• “Health, Naturalism and Functional Efficiency.” American Philosophical Association, Central Division Meetings, Chicago, February, 2012.
• “Comment on Garson and Piccinini’s “Functions Must Be Performed at Appropriate Rates in Appropriate Situations.” American Philosophical Association, Central Division Meetings, Chicago, February, 2012.
• “Preferential Admissions at UW: Equal Opportunity or Unfair Discrimination.” University of Wisconsin-Madison, February, 2012.
• “Qualms about Cost-Effectiveness,” Center for Bioethics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, February, 2012.
• “Social Welfare Functions Are not an Attractive Evaluative Framework,” University of Pennsylvania Law School, March, 2012.
• “NICE and the EQ-5D: Is Cost Effectiveness Analysis Ready for Prime Time?” Harvard School of Public Health, April, 2012.
• “The Role of Public Preferences,” WHO Working Group Developing Guidelines on Ethical Dimensions of Expanding Universal Coverage. Stavanger, Norway, May, 2012.
• “Subjective Well-being: When, and Why, It Matters: Comment” University of Leeds, July, 2012.
• “Health and Functional Efficiency,” University of Hamburg, September, 2012.
• “Incentives and Markets in Health Care,” National Institute of Health, October, 2012.
• “Health, Welfare, and Preferences,” Georgia State University, October, 2012.
• “Sensibly and Ethically Allocating Resources to Health Care,” University of Costa Rica, March, 2013.
• “Some Qualms about Empirical Ethics,” Dalhousie University, October, 2013.“How Can We Ration Health Care Justly and Humanely?” Harvard School of Public Health, November 2013.
• “Why Care about Poverty in the United States?” Coastal Carolina University, April 24, 2014.
• “Rationality, Self-Interest, and Welfare in Contemporary Economics,” Vanderbilt University, May 19, 2014.
• “Health Inequalities: What Is their Moral Significance,” University of Bielefeld, October 2014 and Princeton University, November 2014.
• “Equality of Opportunity, Cultural Differences, and Familial Intimacy.” Stanford University, April, 2015, University of California at San Diego, May, 2015.
• “Rationing Health Care Ethically,” University of California at San Diego, May 2015.
• “Valuing Health: Well-Being, Freedom, and Suffering – An Introduction,” University College, London, June 2015.
• “Measuring Health: Conceptual and Ethical Problems.” Lingnan University, Hong Kong, December, 2015; Leeds University, Inter-Disciplinary Ethics Applied (IDEA) Centre, March, 2016, on-line lecture.
• “What Economists Can and Cannot Do,” Bowling Green University, February, 2016. Â
• “Well-Being, Preferences, and Public Policy,” Keynote Address, Conference on Assessing Well-being when Preferences Are Incoherent. Network for Integrated Behavioural Science, University of East Anglia, April, 2016.
• “Free Cheese: Can the State Budget Solve Moral Dilemmas?” Liberty/RU, Moscow, June, 2016.
• “Rationality, Welfare, and Self-Interest. Ethics and Economics International Conference. Singapore University for Technology and Design, Singapore, January, 2017.
• “Behavioral Economics and Paternalism.” University of Helsinki, May, 2017.
• “Culture and Preference Formation. University of Edinburgh, June 2017.
• “Some Remarks on Equality in Health and Health Care.” Institute for Advanced Studies, Toulouse, June, 2017.
• “Should We Rely on Preference Surveys to Value Health?” Berman Institute of Bioethics, Johns Hopkins University, September, 2017.
• “Social Scientific Naturalism Revisited,” Keynote address, European Network for Philosophy of Social Science, Krakow, Poland, September, 2017; Munich Center for Philosophy and Mathematics, November, 2017.
• “Is Social Science Possible?” Auguste Comte Memorial Lecture, London School of Economics, October, 2017.
• “Well-Being, Desires, and Preferences,” Philosophy Department, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden, October, 2017, University of Illinois at Chicago, February, 2018.
• “Why Do Rich People Love Austerity?” Cambridge University, October 2017.
• “Valuing Health by Eliciting Preferences,” Department of Population Health, University of Wisconsin-Madison, October, 2017.
• “Equality, Equal Opportunity, and Equal Educational Opportunity,” (Comment on Debra Satz and Rob Reich), Wooster College, October, 2017.
• “Social Scientific Naturalism Revisited,” Munich Center for Philosophy and Mathematics, November, 2017.
• “Preferences and Health Measurement (A Philosopher’s View).” Centre for Health Economics, Department of Economics, York University, November, 2017; Centre for Wellbeing in Public Policy, University of Sheffield, November, 2017.
• “Situation Specificity and the Biostatistical Theory of Health.” London School of Economics and Political Science, December 6, 2017.
• “Directing Behavior without Coercion: Nudging, Encouraging, Training, Informing, Activating, and Brainwashing Agents.” London School of Economics and Political Science, December 7, 2017.
• “The Bond between Positive and Normative Economics,” King’s College, University of London, February, 2018.
• “Preferences, Nudging, and Valuing Health.” University of Warsaw, March, 2018.
• “Health, Well-being, and Preferences,” Institute for Humanities Research Roundtable, Arizona State University, April, 2018.
• “Well-Being, Desire, and Preference,” Department of Philosophy, Arizona State University, April, 2018.
• “Efficacious and Ethical Public Paternalism,” Conference on Behavioral Economics and New Paternalism, New York University School of Law, April, 2018.
• “Can Ordeals Help with Moral Hazard and Consequent Inequalities?” Workshop on Ordeals in Healthcare: Ethics and Efficient Delivery, Harvard University, May, 2018.
• “Cost-Effectiveness and Fair Chances,” University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmaark, October, 2018.
• “Can There Be a Science of Well-Being,” Philosophy of Science Association Meetings, Seattle, November, 2018.
• “Well-Being, Philosophically Speaking,” Ohio State University, November, 2018.