Eric Pacuit's Website

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

Research Interests: Logic (especially modal logic), game theory, decision theory, social choice theory, formal and social epistemology, and philosophy of economics

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Announcements

Need to hold a vote in a committee, club, class, etc.? Try: stablevoting.org
newInvited Speaker, LUCI (Logic, Uncertainty, Computation and Information) Lab Seminar, Online, March 4, 2024
newInvited Participant, Social Choice for AI Ethics and Safety, University of California, Berkeley, December 6-8, 2023
newInvited Speaker, Conference on Voting Theory and Preference Aggregation, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany, October 9-11, 2023
ESSLLI 2023 Course: Computational Game Theory in Julia, University of Ljubljana, Solvenia
ESSLLI 2023 Course: Tools for Formal Epistemology: Doxastic Logic, Probability, and Default Logic, (with Aleks Knoks), University of Ljubljana, Solvenia
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 Axiomatic Characterization of Split Cycle (with Yifeng Ding, Wes Holliday), under submission
Stable Voting (with Wes Holliday), Constitutional Political Economy, 2023
Impossibility theorems involving weakenings of expansion consistency and resoluteness in voting (with Wes Holliday, Chase Norman, and Saam Zahedian), forthcoming in Mathematical Analyses of Decisions, Voting, and Games, 2023
Split Cycle: A New Condorcet Consistent Voting Method Independent of Clones and Immune to Spoilers (with Wes Holliday), forthcoming in Public Choice
Choice Driven Counterfactuals (with Ilaria Canavotto), Journal of Philosophical Logic, 51, pp. 297 - 345, 2022

Short Bio

Eric Pacuit is an associate 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, 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), game theory, social choice theory, and formal and social epistemology. His research has been funded by the Natural Science Foundation and a Vidi grant from the Dutch science foundation (NWO).