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Cutting-edge philosophical research at the London School of Economics

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LSE's Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science supports interdisciplinary and inter-institutional research projects, bringing together academics from all around the world.

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The LSE Choice Group A group of philosophers, political scientists and economists interested in rational decision making
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Managing Severe Uncertainty An interdisciplinary project run in collaboration with economists and climate scientists
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Foundations of Animal Sentience (ASENT) Investigating the nature of animal sentience and the criteria for its attribution
Physics Cristian Soto

The Physical Laws and the Application of Mathematics Project Investigating the problem of the effectiveness of mathematics in the articulation of physical laws
Memory Ali Boyle

Episodic Memory: Uniquely Human Project Investigating two big questions of episodic memory
Name Jonathan Parry

Not in my Name This project investigates the moral significance of two ubiquitous, yet opaque phenomena
CPNSS Cohesion and Deliberative Decision-Making

Cohesion and Deliberative Decision-Making This project investigates the contribution that deliberation can make to social cohesiveness.
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Genetically Evolving Models in Science (GEMS) Evolving a population of scientific models using genetic programming
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Philosophy of Physics Addressing foundational and philosophical questions in physics using an interdisciplinary approach