Department of Philosophy: People: Core Faculty: Eric Pacuit

Eric Pacuit (PhD, CUNY Graduate Center) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy. His primary research interests are in logic (especially modal logic), foundations of game theory, and social choice theory; he has secondary interests in (formal) epistemology and decision theory. Prior to coming to Maryland, he was a resident fellow at the Tilburg Institute for Logic and Philosophy of Science, a postdoctoral scholar at the Institute for Logic, Language and Information at the University of Amsterdam, and taught in the Philosophy and Computer Science departments at Stanford University. His work has been supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation and a VIDI grant from the Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO: the Dutch Science Foundation).

Email: E.J.Pacuit@uvt.nl

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Representative Publications

Merging Frameworks for Interaction. Journal of Philosophical Logic, vol 38 (2009), pp. 491 - 526 (with Johan van Benthem, Jelle Gerbrandy, and Tomohiro Hoshi).

Neighbourhood Structures: Bisimilarity and Basic Model Theory. Logical Methods in Computer Science, vol 15 (2010), pp. 1 - 38, (with Helle Hvid Hansen and Clemens Kupke).

A General Approach to Aggregation Problems. Journal of Logic and Computation, vol 19 (2009), pp. 517 - 536. (with Tijmen Daniels).

Understanding the Brandenburger-Keisler Belief Paradox. Studia Logica, vol 86 (2007), pp. 435-454.

First-Order Classical Modal Logic. Studia Logica, vol 84 (2006), pp. 171 - 210 (with Horacio Arlo-Costa).

The Logic of Knowledge Based Obligation Knowledge. Rationality and Action, a subjournal of Synthese, vol 149 (2006), pp. 311 - 341 (with Rohit Parikh and Eva Cogan).