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GalleryLives v livelihoods: Evaluating policies to address COVID-19
Policies that suppress or control COVID-19 prevent illness and save lives, but exact an economic toll. How should we balance lives and livelihoods to determine which policy is best? Richard Bradley, Alex Voorhoeve et al. compare benefit-cost and social welfare approaches to the pandemic.
GalleryLiam Kofi Bright awarded Philip Leverhulme Prize
We’re very pleased to announce that Liam Kofi Bright has been awarded a prestigious Philip Leverhulme Prize
GalleryHenrique Gomes & Jeremy Butterfield (Cambridge): “Geometrodynamics as Functionalism about Time”
Henrique Gomes & Jeremy Butterfield (Cambridge): “Geometrodynamics as Functionalism about Time”
A recent literature about a doctrine called ‘spacetime functionalism’ focuses on how the physics of matter and radiation contributes to determining, or perhaps even determines or explains, chrono-geometry. Thus spacetime functionalism is closely related to relational, and specifically Machian, approaches to chrono-geometry and dynamics; and to what […]
LSE Philosophy welcomes Christina Easton
We’re pleased to welcome Christina Easton to the Department as a new LSE Fellow.
GalleryDavid Kinney (Santa Fe): “Why Average When You Can Stack? Better Methods for Generating Accurate Group Credences”
David Kinney (Santa Fe): “Why Average When You Can Stack? Better Methods for Generating Accurate Group Credences”
Formal and social epistemologists have devoted significant attention to the question of how to aggregate the credences of a group of agents who disagree about the probabilities of events. Most of this work focuses on strategies for calculating the mean credence […]
Aron Vallinder (Forethought Foundation, Oxford): “The Evidentialist’s Wager”
Aron Vallinder (Forethought Foundation, Oxford): “The Evidentialist’s Wager”
Suppose that an altruistic and morally motivated agent who is uncertain between evidential decision theory (EDT) and causal decision theory (CDT) finds herself in a situation in which the two theories give conflicting verdicts. We argue that even if she has significantly higher credence in CDT, she should nevertheless act […]
GalleryG. E. Moore’s hands vs. radical scepticism
Do we need to prove that we’re not living in a computer simulation? Jonathan Birch looks at G. E. Moore’s famous argument against scepticism.
GalleryBryan W. Roberts becomes new CPNSS Director
We’re pleased to welcome Dr Bryan W. Roberts as the new Director of the Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science.
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