Eric Pacuit's Website

Professor
Department of Philosophy
University of Maryland
epacuit@umd.edu
Office: 1103A Skinner Hall (directions)

Associate Professor
Department of Philosophy
University of Maryland
epacuit@umd.edu
Office: 1103A Skinner Hall (directions)

Research Interests: Logic (especially modal logic), social choice theory, game theory, decision theory, formal and social epistemology, and artificial intelligence

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Announcements

Need to hold a vote in a committee, club, class, etc.? Try: stablevoting.org
Logic research group (weekly seminar at the University of Maryland)
newESSLLI 2025 Course: Epistemic Arithmetic, Bochum, Germany
Nordic Online Logic Seminar, NOLS, August 26, 2024
ESSLLI 2024 Course: Neighborhood Semantics for Modal Logic, Leuven, Belgium
ESSLLI 2024 Course: Social Choice and Machine Learning, Leuven, Belgium
Invited Speaker, LUCI (Logic, Uncertainty, Computation and Information) Lab Seminar, Online, March 4, 2024
Invited Participant, Social Choice for AI Ethics and Safety, University of California, Berkeley, December 6-8, 2023
Online notes on logic and probability: Prepared for an course introducing logic and probability (PHIL 171)
Book: Neighborhood Semantics for Modal Logic, Springer 2017.

Recent Publications

An extension of May's Theorem to three alternatives: axiomatizing Minimax voting (with Wes Holliday), under submission
Social Choice Should Guide AI Alignment in Dealing with Diverse Human Feedback (with Vince Conitzer et al.), presented at ICML 2024 and Social Choice and Welfare Conference 2024
Learning to Manipulate under Limited Information (with Wes Holliday and Alexander Kristoffersen), presented at Workshop on Social Choice and Learning Algorithms 2024 and New Directions in Social Choice 2024
Impossibility theorems involving weakenings of expansion consistency and resoluteness in voting (with Wes Holliday, Chase Norman, and Saam Zahedian), Mathematical Analyses of Decisions, Voting, and Games, 2024
An Axiomatic Characterization of Split Cycle (with Yifeng Ding, and Wes Holliday), Social Choice and Welfare, 2024
Stable Voting (with Wes Holliday), Constitutional Political Economy, 2023
Split Cycle: A New Condorcet Consistent Voting Method Independent of Clones and Immune to Spoilers (with Wes Holliday), Public Choice.

Short Bio

Eric Pacuit is a professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Maryland. Prior to coming to Maryland, Eric did his graduate work at the City University of New York Graduate Center in Computer Science, and was a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation at the University of Amsterdam and in the Departments of Philosophy and Computer Science at Stanford University. Eric’s primary research interests are in logic (especially modal logic), social choice theory, game theory, formal and social epistemology, and problems that arise in AI and ethics. His research has been funded by the Natural Science Foundation and a Vidi grant from the Dutch science foundation (NWO).