Arthur Paul Pedersen

Arthur Paul Pedersen is a Professor at The City University of New York (CUNY) and a Senior Researcher at the Center for Adaptive Rationality at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development. He holds a Ph.D. in Logic, Computation, and Methodology from Carnegie Mellon University and dual B.A. degrees in Mathematics and Philosophy from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

• Institutions: CUNY Graduate Center, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, LMU Munich
• Fields: Decision Theory, Game Theory, Probability Theory, Formal Epistemology, Artificial Intelligence

His research focuses on judgment and decision-making under uncertainty, integrating perspectives from mathematics, economics, computer science, and philosophy. He specializes in non-Archimedean probability, lexicographic utility representations, and formal epistemology. Pedersen explores how qualitative coherence criteria can underpin quantitative models without assuming completeness or transitivity.

He has delivered talks at major conferences like the International Conference on Game Theory (2024) and the Biennial Gordon Research Conference on Forensic Analysis (2025). His work addresses foundational issues in Bayesian aggregation, social choice theory, and belief revision, with applications to economics and cognitive science.

Service roles include editorial board membership for Minds and Machines, grant reviewing for the European Research Council, and organizing conferences on logic, games, and imprecise probability. He mentors undergraduate and graduate researchers through programs like the NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates.