Imprint Academic

Works involving Oliver Dowlen

  • The Political Potential of Sortition

    A study of the random selection of citizens for public office
    (Author)

    The central feature of every true lottery is that all rational evaluation is deliberately excluded. Once this principle is grasped, the author argues, we can begin to understand exactly what benefits sortition can bring to the political community.

  • Sortition

    Theory and Practice
    (Edited by)

    Essays deriving from the conference "Selection by Lottery: Theory and Practice" held in 2008 under the auspices of Sciences Po, in Paris.

Featured Titles

  • The Singularity
    Could artificial intelligence really out-think us (and would we want it to)?

  • A Scientist in Wonderland
    A Memoir of Searching for Truth and Finding Trouble
    Edzard Ernst

  • What is Wrong with Us?
    Essays in Cultural Pathology

  • Francis Hutcheson
    Selected Philosophical Writings

  • Mechanisms in World and Mind
    Perspective Dualism, Systems Theory, Neuroscience, Reductive Physicalism
    Bernd Lindemann

  • The Chamberlain Legacy
    Charles Nettlefold

  • A Guide to the Classics
    Or How to Pick the Derby Winner
    Guy Griffith

  • Insides and Outsides
    Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Animate Nature
    Maxine Sheets-Johnstone

  • Playing the Long Game
    How to Save the West from Short-Termism
    Laurie Fitzjohn-Sykes

  • God versus Particle Physics
    A No-Score Draw
    John Davies