LSE Philosophy Assistant Professor Kate Vredenburgh has been awarded a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship (FLF).
The FLF scheme provides long-term support which enables fellows to tackle ambitious programmes or multidisciplinary questions, and new or emerging research and innovation areas and partnerships.
The aim of the scheme is to develop the next wave of world-class research and innovation leaders in academia […]
Roman Frigg and Richard Bradley from LSE Philosophy will share their expertise in decision making under uncertainty.
The Innovate UK funded project “Hazard Impact Tracker (HIT): Leveraging New Global Cyclone Data to create a Catastrophe Portfolio Management Platform” brings together Maximum Information (a provider of information services around natural hazards), a modelling team based at Reading University, the insurer AON […]
Many researchers now agree that animal consciousness is more common than once believed. One of the leading animal sentience researchers is LSE Philosophy Professor Jonathan Birch. His research is often met with scepticism from inside and outside the Philosophy world. However, he sometimes is a reasonable sceptic himself. In our latest blog post, Jonathan Birch gives insights into his inner […]
The Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method is searching for a Graduate Programmes Manager. Application deadline: 9 August 2024.
The Department of Philosophy, Logic, and Scientific Method at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) is seeking to appoint a full-time Graduate Programmes Manager. This role offers an exciting opportunity to make a significant contribution to […]
Starting September 2024, Lewis Ross will be the new Director of the Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science (CPNSS).
Lewis Ross will take over from Bryan Roberts, who has been the Centre Director since 2020. We thank Bryan Roberts for his tremendous work in CPNSS. He has been a driving force to consolidate the standing and influence of CPNSS […]
The podcast of the LSE Festival panel on ‘Invertebrate minds: from spiders to octopuses’ is now online!
Human beings are part of a vast sentient world full of conscious creatures, and even those of us far away from centres of political power have immense influence over huge numbers of animal lives – influence which we can choose to exercise […]
Moral Progress used to be one of the core ideas and commitments of the Enlightenment. Then it became a controversial idea, but a new theory of moral progress is now gaining traction, argues LSE Philosophy PhD student Rafael Ruiz de Lira.
Moral progress was central to the Enlightenment project. Philosophers like Kant, Hegel, Marx, and Comte […]
Pallab Ghosh wrote an article for BBC InDepth on animal consciousness – including Jonathan Birch’s work.
The article titled ‘Are animals conscious? How new research is changing minds’ explores the the growing research into animal consciousness. The article highlights how consciousness is defined and which evidence researcher have found to back up their theory. You […]
We are happy to announce this year’s winner of the LSE Class Teacher Award 2024 for the LSE Philosophy Department.
Congratulations to Dominic Ryder!
Further, we would like to highlight the people that were ‘Highly Commended’ for the award: Bele Wollesen, Lea Bourguignon, Christabel Cane, Hanika Froneman, Veronika Luptakova, Paloma Morales, Amadeo Robiolio and Adam Wingardh
Congratulations to all! It’s a […]
The Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method is searching for an LSE Fellow in Philosophy. Application deadline: 4 July 2024.
The Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method is committed to doing excellent research and teaching in philosophy in a manner that is continuous with the social and natural sciences and is socially relevant. It is also committed […]
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