When advisors warned of “significant concerns” about the Alpha variant, the UK government acted quickly. But suspicions about Alpha’s greater transmissibility were first noted a week earlier. Jonathan Birch suggests that when the stakes are so high, even low confidence in a particular outcome can be enough to justify policy interventions.
LSE Philosophy seeks applications for an Associate Professorship in Philosophy, to start 1 September 2022.
LSE Philosophy seeks applications for an Assistant Professorship in Philosophy, to start 1 September 2022.
We’re very pleased to announce that we have been ranked among the top departments in the world for Decision, Rational Choice and Game Theory.
On 13 January, LSE Philosophy will host the launch of the first volume in the BSPS Open book series: The Material Theory of Induction, by John D. Norton.
Lisa Hecht (Stockholm): “Permissible Risk-Inclination in Other-regarding Choices”
Faced with two or more options, a decision-maker may choose a riskier option for herself even if this option does not maximize her expected utility. When it comes to other-regarding choices, it is less clear whether a decision-maker may permissibly choose a riskier option that does not maximize the expected […]
Dennis Dieks (Utrecht): “Identical quantum particles as distinguishable objects”
Particles in classical physics are individuals that can be distinguished by identifying physical properties. By contrast, in quantum mechanics the “received view” is that particles of the same kind (“identical particles”) cannot be distinguished in this way. This standard view is problematic, though: not only is it at odds […]
The scope of the UK’s Animal Welfare (Sentience) Bill is to be extended to include octopuses, crabs and lobsters, in response to a report by LSE Philosophy’s Foundations of Animal Sentience project.
On 11 March 2022, this one-day event will celebrate the life and work of Colin Howson.
Wolfgang Schwarz (Edinburgh): “Believing Against the Evidence”
I will look at cases in which a proposition is supported by an agent’s evidence at an earlier time but not by their evidence at a later time, even though the agent does not receive any new information that is relevant to the proposition. In such a case, I argue, the […]
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