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Natalie Gold

Natalie Gold (PhD Oxford) joined the department in 2006. Prior to that she held Postdoctoral Fellowships in the philosophy department at Duke University and in the Probability, Philosophy and Modelling group based in the University of Konstanz.

Research Interests

Moral Psychology, Reasoning and Rationality, Philosophy of Social Science especially as regards issues in comtemporary economics and psychology.

Teaching

  • Moral and Political Philosophy
  • Ethics and Bounded Rationality
  • Philosophy of Science
  • Philosophy of action
  • Value Theory
  • Moral Psychology
  • Philosophy of Social Science

Publications

  • Gold, N. and R. Sugden (2008) “Theories of Team Agency” in F. Peter and S. Schmidt (eds.) Rationality and Commitment Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Gold, N. and R. Sugden (2007) “Collective Intentions and Team Agency” Journal of Philosophy 104(3), 109-37.
  • Gold, N. and R. Sugden eds. (2006) of M. Bacharach Beyond the Individual Princeton: Princeton University Press.
  • Gold, N. (2004) "Teamwork in Theory and in Practice" in N. Gold (ed.) Teamwork: Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives London: Palgrave-Macmillan.
  • Gold, N. and C. List (2004) "Framing as Path Dependence" Economics and Philosophy 20(2), 253-77.
  • Gold, N. (2004) "Collective Rationality: a Dilemma for Democrats but a Solution through Deliberation?" in Deliberation and Decision: A Dialogue Between Economics, Constitutional Theory, and Deliberative Democracy, Aldershot: Ashgate.'

 

Administrative Roles

On research leave in 2009/10

Assistant Director of Graduate Studies (General),

Course Organizer Introduction to Philosophy 1,

Philosophy of Science and Moral Psychology

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Natalie Gold

Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh

Contact details

Philosophy,
School of Philosophy,
Psychology and Language Sciences,
Dugald Stewart Building,
3 Charles Street,
George Square,
Edinburgh EH8 9AD

TEL:+44 (0)131 650 3085
Fax: +44 (0)131 650 3660
Email: natalie.gold@ed.ac.uk