One of the key arguments in favour of an elected second chamber is that it would make the UK’s political system more democratic overall. However, an examination of the principles of representative democracy suggests that this is neither a necessary nor desirable reform for the House of Lords to fulfil its purpose, argues LSE Philosophy Fellow Adam Lovett.
LSE Philosophy PhD Student Lorenzo Sartori has been published his new paper ‘Models Organisms as Scientific Representations’ in The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science.
About the paper: In this article, I argue that model organisms (MOs) function as representations of other organisms, in the same way in which scientific models function as representations of their targets. This […]
LSE Philosophy Professor and Head of Department Alex Voorhoeve has been appointed to the Bank of England and the UK Treasury’s Academic Advisory Group for the development of a “digital pound”, formally known as a Central Bank Digital Currency.
The group aims to encourage academic research and debate that is relevant to the development of the digital pound. The […]
LSE Professor Jonathan Birch wrote a review on Alexander Bird’s book ‘Knowing Science’. The review has been published in MIND.
In ‘Knowing Science’, Alexander Bird presents an epistemology of science that rejects empiricism and gives a central place to the concept of knowledge. Jonathan Birch weighs in on the side of the human element in his new review of […]
LSE Professor and animal sentience expert Jonathan Birch wrote a blog article on animal welfare in the UK for the LSE British Politics and Policy.
The UK has historically been a leader on the protection of animals but efforts have weakened over recent years. Jonathan Birch argues that the animal welfare impact of all policy decisions must be taken […]
LSE Assistant Professor Ali Boyle just published her new paper ‘Disagreement & classification in comparative cognitive science’ in Noûs.
About the paper: Comparative cognitive science often involves asking questions like ‘Do nonhumans have C?’ where C is a capacity we take humans to have. These questions frequently generate unproductive disagreements, in which one party affirms and the other denies […]
Richard Bradley (LSE Philosophy) and H. Orri Stefánsson (Stockholm University) have now published a paper on ‘Fairness and risk attitudes’ online in Philosophical Studies.
According to a common judgement, a social planner should often use a lottery to decide which of two people should receive a good. This judgement undermines one of the best-known arguments for utilitarianism, due to […]
LSE Philosophy Professor Richard Bradley has published a book review of ‘Fitting Things Together: Coherence and the Requirements of Structural Rationality’ by Alex Worsnip. The review was published online in Economics and Philosophy.
In this superb, densely argued book Alex Worsnip presents an account of the distinctiveness of structural rationality that seeks to explain what makes it, and the […]
LSE Philosophy Fellow Nikhil Venkatesh has published his new paper “Inefficacy, Pre-emption and Structural Injustice” in Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society.
Many pressing problems are of the following kind: some collection of actions of multiple people will produce some morally significant outcome (good or bad), but each individual action in the collection seems to make no difference to the […]
LSE Assistant Professor Jingyi Wu just published her new paper “Better than Best: Epistemic Landscapes and Diversity of Practice in Science” with Cambridge University Press.
When solving a complex problem in a group, should group members always choose the best available solution that they are aware of? In this paper, I build simulation models to show that, perhaps surprisingly, […]
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