Daniel M. Hausman, Herbert A. Simon and Hilldale Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and co-founder of the journal Economics and Philosophy, will deliver this year’s Auguste Comte Memorial Lecture on 4 October.
On 29 September, this two-day interdisciplinary workshop will bring together philosophers, economists, and scholars from neighbouring disciplines to discuss issues ranging from new approaches to rational choice theory at one end of the spectrum to contributions concerning the metaphysics of intentionality and agency at the other.
The science of predicting hurricanes is crucial for disaster management and insurance, but also raises difficult methodological and philosophical questions. In this post, Joe Roussos asks whether hurricane modellers should average the results from different models of hurricane frequency.
Papers by Luc Bovens and Alex Voorhoeve have been ranked among the ten best philosophy articles of 2016 by The Philosopher’s Annual.
We’re pleased to announce the appointment of a new LSE Fellow in Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Mattia Gallotti, who will be joining the Department in September.
We’re pleased to announce the appointment of a new LSE Fellow in Logic, Owen Griffiths, who will be joining the Department in September.
We’re pleased to announce that Todd Karhu has been awarded the 2017 John Watkins Memorial Prize for his work on the wrongs of killing.
Can compulsory formal education be justified on liberal grounds? Christina Easton on J. S. Mill, John Rawls and the famous Wisconsin v. Yoder court case.
On 5–6 October, this 2-day conference aims to connect work on artistic and scientific imagination, and to advance our understanding of the epistemic and heuristic roles that imagination can play.
In the second part of this series, Luc Bovens looks at a good death and a future without oneself.
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