‘Evolutionary Game Theory’ by J. McKenzie Alexander has been published online and will be available for free until 22 March 2023.
The online version of the book has just been published by Cambridge University Press. The PDF can be downloaded for free until 22 March 2023 here. The book is part of the ‘Elements […]
Anna Mahtani and Jonathan Birch have been promoted to Professor in recognition of their outstanding research, teaching and contributions to the Department, School and discipline. The title will be official starting August 2023.
Anna Mahtani is an Associate Professor at the Department of Philosophy at LSE. She completed her PhD on the Epistemic Theory of […]
LSE Philosophy Associate Professor Jonathan Birch and Professor of Philosophy at York University in Toronto Kristin Andrews wrote an essay on animal sentience for the digital magazine Aeon.
Why would an AI system want to convince its user of its sentience? Or, to put it more carefully, why would this contribute to its objectives? It’s tempting to think: only […]
1. Why did you choose LSE and the programme?
For my masters I wanted to pursue Philosophy with a practical, application-based approach, especially towards policy. I wanted to build a specialisation in ethical policy-making and LSE offered the best possible combination in the form of its MSc in Philosophy and Public Policy. LSE is also one of the most reputed […]
What is the point of protest? What makes a protest successful? Jonathan Parry explains the value of protesting.
Today marks the 20th anniversary of the anti-war protests against the invasion of Iraq. The centrepiece demonstration involved an estimated 1.5million people marching through the heart of London, with parallel protests across the country (and […]
LSE Philosophy Assistant Professor Lewis Ross just published his new paper ‘Criminal Proof: Fixed or Flexible?’ in ‘The Philosophical Quarterly’
Abstract: Should we use the same standard of proof to adjudicate guilt for murder and petty theft? Why not tailor the standard of proof to the crime? These relatively neglected questions cut to the heart of central issues in […]
LSE Philosophy Associate Professor Johanna Thoma just published the new paper ‘Taking Risks on Behalf of Another’ in the ‘Philosophy Compass’.
Abstract: A growing number of decision theorists have, in recent years, defended the view that rationality is permissive under risk: Different rational agents may be more or less risk-averse or risk-inclined. This can result in them making different […]
Giacomo Giannini (LSE Philosophy) and Donatella Donati (University of L’Aquila) published their new paper ‘Dispositionalism’s (grand)daddy issues: time travelling and perfect masks’ in ‘Analysis’.
Abstract: There is a tension between Dispositionalism––the view that all metaphysical modality is grounded in actual irreducible dispositional properties––and the possibility of time travel. This is due to the fact that Dispositionalism makes it much […]
The video of our Philosophy Live event ‘Time’s Arrow’ is online!
The asymmetry between the past and the future is called the Arrow of Time. For example, the events of the past year have shaped all of us, but the future years are ours to shape. We all perceive the Arrow: we remember the start of the pandemic, but […]
Giacomo Giannini (LSE Philosophy) and Tom Schoonen (University of Amsterdam) published their new paper ‘Relational Troubles Structuralist Worries for an Epistemology of Powers-Based Modality’ in ‘The Philosophical Quarterly’.
Abstract Dispositionalism is the theory of modality that grounds all modal truths in powers: all metaphysically possible and necessary truths are to be explained by pointing to some actual power, or […]
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