I am a PhD candidate at the Department of Sociology and Philosophy, University of Exeter. My dissertation topic is methodology of rational choice theory. I’m working with Prof. Francesco Guala, whom I first met in London while I was doing my MSc at LSE. I am visiting (Sep. 2007- Jan. 2008) the Department of Moral and Social […]
My time at the LSE is a memory of fulfilled academic expectations. Reading an MSc in philosophy of the social sciences was a challenge of the most stimulating kind for me. Each new idea revealed was a novel tool with which to chisel, mould and rearrange a new fascinating universe of thought and logic.
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The MSc in Philosophy and History of Science course provided me with an excellent grounding in many key areas of philosophy of science. The core course, Philosophy of Science and Scientific Method, gave an overview of central topics in the field, while the paper in the Philosophical Foundations of Physics began with an introduction to this area […]
I originally came to London to do a Masters in theoretical physics, but from the very beginning I hoped I would also be able to take one or two courses in Philosophy of Science at the place I knew some of the all-time heroes of philosophy of science had worked: LSE’s Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific […]
Joshua Tan started out at as an investment banker at DBS, Singapore’s largest bank, and is now at PhillipCapital. He writes: My employers hired me because they thought that I was interesting and different from the usual Accounting/Business/Finance grads that they hire. Thus they were willing to overlook the fact that I had no Finance background (but […]
Isabell Kohten works at the Office for National Statistics in the UK Centre of the Measurement of Government Activity. She writes: The purpose of this Centre is to improve and develop further output and productivity measures for public services such as health or education, and my specific task is to establish the basic principles and methods and […]
Viara Bojkova works for the think tank Sea and Water. She writes: We try to influence governmental policy and represent the shipping industry. What I do is research and analysis on the trade between the UK and the EU, North Africa and ex-Soviet Republics. I also write theoretical and economic argumentats when we work on documents that […]
The LSE was my first exposure to philosophy of science, and the courses were challenging but fascinating. Professors did an excellent job of presenting the material so that those of us unfamiliar with the issues could participate as well as those who already had studied some of it. The other students in the Master’s program came from […]
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