Research into the minds of other animals and particularly invertebrates raises questions about how we define and understand consciousness itself. LSE Philosophy PhD student Daria Zakharova discusses how creating an artistic interpretation of the mind of a spider can inspire new legislation and shed light on how we understand developments in new forms artificial of intelligence.
In the summer […]
We are pleased to welcome Suzanne Bloks to LSE Philosophy, who will join us in September 2024 as Post Doc (Research Officer).
Suzanne will work as research officer in the ‘Cohesion and Deliberative Decision-Making’ project of the Cohesive Capitalism programme, funded by the Open Society Foundation. She wrote her PhD thesis in Philosophy in the DFG-funded PPE graduate program ‘Collective Decision-Making’ at Hamburg University. […]
LSE Philosophy Assistant Professor Ali Boyle is one of the newly selected CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars.
This year, 10 emerging research leaders will join the CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars programme cohort 2024-2026, generously supported by the Azrieli Foundation. This ambitious next-generation initiative provides two years of unrestricted funding to talented researchers tackling important and pressing questions facing science and […]
We are happy to announce that LSE Philosophy is now ranked number 1 in the UK for Philosophy.
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LSE Philosophy MSc student James Rice has written a blog article for the LSE Student Blog sharing his experience at the Department.
In the latest LSE student blog article ‘Studying through adversity: how equity, diversity and inclusion works at LSE’, MSc student James Rice shares his experience when experiencing personal challenges at the Department and the School. He explains […]
LSE has published their latest edition of ‘Research for the World’ online magazine, including an article by LSE Philosophy Professor Anna Mahtani.
Who should make the decisions that affect people with dementia? LSE Philosophy Professor Anna Mahtani argues that advanced directives can help with decision-making for both those experiencing and those caring for someone with dementia.
The recording of the ‘Philosophy Live’ panel ‘Living in the past: exploring memory in humans, animals, and artificial agents’ is now online on YouTube.
Why live in the past? Humans reminisce and remember past events, even ‘replaying’ them in the mind’s eye. But why not just live in the moment? What’s the point in devoting mental resources to storing […]
How individuals and groups are named and designated is inextricably linked to the expected outcomes of policy decisions aimed at influencing them. Discussing her recent work on these ‘objects of credence’, LSE Philosophy Professor Anna Mahtani suggests that an attentiveness to the plurality of possible designators can help policymakers be more aware of the underlying choices inherent to […]
LSE Philosophy Visiting Professor Christian List has published his new paper ‘Dynamically rational judgment aggregation’ in Springer.
Abstract: Judgment-aggregation theory has always focused on the attainment of rational collective judgments. But so far, rationality has been understood in static terms: as coherence of judgments at a given time, defined as consistency, completeness, and/or deductive closure. This paper asks whether […]
LSE Philosophy Assistant Professor Remco Heesen and colleagues have now published their new paper ‘Science–policy research collaborations need philosophers’ in Nature Human Behaviour.
The project on “The Epistemology of Evidence-Based Policy: How Philosophy can facilitate the Science-Policy interface” was co-led by Anne Schwenkenbecher (Murdoch University), Remco Heesen (London School of Economics and Political Science) and Chad Hewitt (Murdoch University, […]
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