Biographical details
I became interested in philosophy
while studying economics, politics and sociology at
the University of Witwatersrand, in Johannesburg. As
a way of moving from the social sciences to
philosophy, I did an MSc in Social Philosophy at the
LSE, and then, after a two-year break from
university studies (more than enough), went on to
the University of Chicago to do my PhD. At Chicago I
developed an interest in the connection between
rationality and the interpretation of behaviour,
working initially with Jon Elster and Russell
Hardin, and then, as my research focused on problems
in decision theory, more actively with Richard
Jeffrey and David Malament. My PhD thesis presented
a decision theory that incorporated a quantitative
representation of agent's attitudes to the sorts of
conditional possibilities identified by indicative
conditional sentences.
