GalleryLSE Philosophy welcomes Ali Boyle
We’re pleased to welcome Ali Boyle to the Department, who joins us in September as a new Assistant Professor.
GalleryCatarina Dutilh Novaes wins the 2022 Lakatos Award
LSE is pleased to announce the winner of the 2021 Lakatos Award.
GalleryLSE ranked 3rd for Philosophy in REF 2021
Our outstanding contributions to the field have been recognised by assessors in the 2021 Research Excellence Framework [REF].
GalleryLSE Philosophy welcomes Kieran Oberman
We’re pleased to welcome Kieran Oberman to the Department as a new Associate Professor.
LSE Philosophy ranked 4th in the world
LSE Philosophy has been ranked 4th in the world in the 2022 QS World University Rankings by Subject, the highest ranking of any UK-based philosophy department.
GalleryApply now: LSE Fellowship in Philosophy
LSE Philosophy seeks applications for a two-year LSE Fellowship in Philosophy, to start 1 September 2022.
GallerySocial norms, contractualism and public policy: How gender affects epidemiology
How do social norms influence the effectiveness of public policy, and what are the moral, political and philosophical implications of taking social norms seriously? Elsa Kugelberg looks at the effect of gender norms on health policy.
GalleryJoe Roussos & Anandi Hattiangadi (Stockholm): “A Sceptical Puzzle for Bayesians”
Joe Roussos & Anandi Hattiangadi (Stockholm): “A Sceptical Puzzle for Bayesians”
Belief polarisation occurs when two agents’ posterior beliefs move farther away from one another with respect to the same proposition or set of propositions. Polarisation has traditionally been regarded as a failure of rationality, e.g., the result of cognitive biases influencing the belief states of at least […]
GalleryMargherita Harris (LSE): “Model Robustness: Schupbach’s Explanatory Account of Robustness Analysis to the Rescue?”
Margherita Harris (LSE): “Model Robustness: Schupbach’s Explanatory Account of Robustness Analysis to the Rescue?”
In science, obtaining a “robust” result is often seen as providing further support for a hypothesis. The Bayesian should have something to say about the logic underpinning this method of confirmation. Schupbach’s recent explanatory account (2018) of robustness analysis (RA) is a welcome attempt […]
Chloé de Canson (Groningen): “Why Subjectivism?”
Chloé de Canson (Groningen): “Why Subjectivism?”
Few philosophical positions are as unpopular as radical subjective Bayesianism. In this paper, I seek, if not to rehabilitate subjectivism, at least to show its critic what is attractive about the position. I argue that what is at stake in the subjectivism/anti- subjectivism debate is not, as is commonly thought, which norms […]
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