Thomas Boyer-Kassem

Journal articles

Working papers / under review

■ ■ "Theory choice with ordinal grading (or: Kuhn meets Majority Judgment)"

■ ■ ■ "How to properly measure moral universalism" (with Sébastien Duchêne)

■ ■ "Majority Judgment for Collective Beliefs and Science"

■ ■ ■ "A Week of Meditation Boosts Prosociality: A Lab Experiment" (with Wael Bousselmi, Sébastien Duchêne, Phu Nguyen-Van, Olga Tatarnikova)

Articles in international peer-reviewed journals

■ ■ ■ (forth.) "Group-Decision Making With Balanced Procedures" (with Cyrille Imbert and Vincent Chevrier), Erkenntnis.

■ (forth.) "Les degrés de l'ignorance, de l'individuel au collectif", Revue de Métaphysique et de Morale

■ ■ (2025) "Reasonable precaution or unjust discrimination? Applying a lexical utility model of the precautionary principle to moral choices" (with Sébastien Duchêne), Journal of Business Ethics 200 : 175-188. [doi] [hal]

■ ■ (2024) "Explaining scientific collaboration: a general functional account" (with Cyrille Imbert), The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 75(4) : 993-1017. [doi]

■ (2024) "Compliance with Covid-19 sanitary measures:don’t forget the precautionary principle" / "Respect des mesures sanitaires contre le Covid-19 : n’oublions pas le principe de précaution" (with Sébastien Duchêne and Ismaël Rafaï), Santé Publique 36 (5) : 37-48. [www](en) [www] (fr)

■ (2020) "Improving deliberations by reducing misrepresentation effects" (with Cyrille Imbert, Vincent Chevrier and Christine Bourjot), Episteme 17(4), 403-419. [doi]

■ ■ (2020) "On discrimination in health insurance" (with Sébastien Duchêne), Social Choice and Welfare 55(1): 5-23. [doi]

■ (2019) "Comment: The Precautionary Principle and Judgment Aggregation", Risk Analysis, 39(6): 1225-1226. [doi]

■ ■ (2019) "Scientific expertise and risk aggregation", Philosophy of Science 86(1): 124-144. [doi]

■ (2017) "The Precautionary Principle has not been shown to be incoherent: A reply to Peterson", Risk Analysis, 37(11): 2039-2040. [doi]

■ (2017) "Is the Precautionary Principle really incoherent?", Risk Analysis, 37(11): 2026-2034. [doi]

■ ■ ■ (2017) "Une nouvelle approche expérimentale pour tester les modèles quantiques de l'erreur de conjonction" (with Sébastien Duchêne and Éric Guerci), Revue Économique 5: 16-31 (proceedings of the ASFEE 2015 conference). [doi]
= "A new experimental approach to test quantum-like models of the conjunction fallacy"

■ ■ ■ (2016) "Quantum-like models cannot account for the conjunction fallacy" (with Sébastien Duchêne and Éric Guerci), Theory and Decision 81(4): 479-510. [doi]

■ ■ (2016) "Testing quantum-like models of judgment for question order effect" (with Sébastien Duchêne and Éric Guerci), Mathematical Social Sciences 80: 33-46. [doi]

■ (2015) "Scientific collaboration: do two heads need to be more than twice better than one?" (with Cyrille Imbert), Philosophy of Science, 82(4): 667-688. [doi]

■ ■ (2014) "Layers of models in computer simulations", International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 28(4): 417-436. [doi]

■ (2014) "Is a bird in the hand worth two in the bush? Or, whether scientists should publish their intermediate results", Synthese, 191(1): 17-35. [doi] (2013 "Young Researcher" prize of the Society of Philosophy of Sciences)

■ (2007) "Spin chain simulations with a meron cluster algorithm" (with Wolfgang Bietenholz and Jaïr Wuilloud), International Journal of Modern Physics C 18: 1497-1511. [doi]

Articles in peer-reviewed journals

■ (2017) "Le principe de précaution", (article ‘Grand Public’), in M. Kristanek (éd.), L'Encyclopédie Philosophique [www]
= "The precautionary principle"

■ (2015) "Les interprétations de la mécanique quantique : une vue d'ensemble introductive", Implications Philosophiques, Sept. 2015. [on line]
= "The interpretations of quantum mechanics: an introductory overview"

■ ■ (2013) "Interpréter une théorie physique" (with Anouk Barberousse), Methodos [on line], 13 | 2013. [doi]
= "Interpreting a physical theory"

Chapters in edited books

■ ■ (2026) "Une critique de la position de Dirac concernant le choix entre des interprétations quantiques", in F. Laguens (dir.), La Philosophie des physiciens, XXe-XXIe siècles, Éditions Matériologiques. [doi]

■ ■ (2024) "L'acceptabilité du risque dans les groupes", in M. Audiffren and I. de la Ville (eds.), De l'identification à l'acceptabilité sociale des risques. Une approche interdisciplinaire et multiniveaux, Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, coll. SHS.

■ (2020) "Physique quantique", in Jean Gayon (ed.), Dictionnaire Encyclopédique de l'Identité, Paris: Gallimard, coll. Folio Essais.

■ (2017), "Introduction", (with C. Mayo-Wilson and M. Weisberg), in T. Boyer-Kassem, C. Mayo-Wilson et M. Weisberg (eds.), Scientific Collaboration and Collective Knowledge, New York : Oxford University Press, p. xi-xix.

Public outreach

■ (2025) "Pour ou contre : sommes-nous obligé.e.s de choisir un camp ?", interview for Micro Canap' (49:43). [YouTube] [Spotify] [ApplePodcast] [Deezer]

■ ■ (2022) "Améliorer l'impartialité de l'expertise scientifique" (with Sébastien Duchêne and Julie Jebeile), Gestions Hospitalières, n° 614, p. 114-116 (actes de 17èmes Assises Nationales Hospitalo-Universitaires, Lille, 2021).

■ (2020) "Le principe de précaution", L’Actualité Nouvelle-Aquitaine, n° 127, p. 42-43.

(2019) Interviewé on les-philosophes.fr

■ (2019), "Le jugement majoritaire et la délibération : mieux discuter, pour mieux voter !", contribution for the Mieux Voter association, mieuxvoter.fr.

■ ■ (2017), "Lutter contre les préjugés sur la pauvreté", Revue Quart Monde, no 243, p. 50-52.

■ (2017), "Une théorie en quête de sens" (dossier Physique quantique), La Recherche, fév. 2017, no 520, p. 50-52.