Ewan Rodgers

About Ewan Rodgers

Communications and Marketing Manager, Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, London School of Economics and Political Science. E.D.Rodgers@lse.ac.uk
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    Miklós Rédei (LSE): “Properties of Bayesian learning based on conditional expectation as a conditioning device”

Miklós Rédei (LSE): “Properties of Bayesian learning based on conditional expectation as a conditioning device”

25 October 2016|

 

 

Miklós Rédei (LSE): “Properties of Bayesian learning based on conditional expectation as a conditioning device”

This talk investigates the general properties of general Bayesian learning, where “general Bayesian learning” means inferring a probability measure from another that is regarded as (uncertain) evidence, and where the inference is conditionalizing the evidence using the conditional expectation determined by a reference […]

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    Hive Minds: Collective Intelligence in Humans and Other Animals (Forum for Philosophy)

Hive Minds: Collective Intelligence in Humans and Other Animals (Forum for Philosophy)

19 October 2016|

 

Hive Minds: Collective Intelligence in Humans and Other Animals (Forum for Philosophy)

Swarms of bees make decisions as a ‘democratic’ collective, voting on various possible nest sites through waggle dances. Does this phenomenon amount to a form of ‘collective intelligence’? Do we also find collective intelligence in humans? And what might humans be able to learn from bees about the best […]

Graduate Applications for 2017/8 now open

10 October 2016|

Apply now for our world-leading MSc and MPhil/PhD programmes. Programmes start September 2017.

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    Workshop on Scientific Imagination and Epistemic Representations

Workshop on Scientific Imagination and Epistemic Representations

10 October 2016|

On 28 October, four experts will consider the issue of imagination in scientific reasoning in this one-day workshop.

The Worst Form of Government? (Forum for Philosophy)

5 October 2016|

 

The Worst Form of Government? (Forum for Philosophy)

Winston Churchill famously described democracy as ‘the worst form of government except for all the others that have been tried’. While not exactly a resounding endorsement, something like this sentiment is strongly held by most people in Western societies. Those who challenge it are branded ‘extremists’ or ‘ideologues’, with special suspicion […]

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    Sir Paul Nurse: “How Philosophy Drives Discovery: A scientist’s view of Popper”

Sir Paul Nurse: “How Philosophy Drives Discovery: A scientist’s view of Popper”

28 September 2016|

 

Sir Paul Nurse: “How Philosophy Drives Discovery: A scientist’s view of Popper”

In this talk, the 8th Sir Karl Popper Memorial Lecture, Sir Paul Nurse discusses how the philosophical works of Karl Popper have informed the practice of his own scientific research activities, indicating where it has helped and where it has required modifications.

Sir Paul is an English geneticist, Former […]

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    James Owen Weatherall (Irvine): “On Stuff: The Field Concept in Classical Physics”

James Owen Weatherall (Irvine): “On Stuff: The Field Concept in Classical Physics”

26 September 2016|

 
 
James Owen Weatherall (Irvine): “On Stuff: The Field Concept in Classical Physics”

Discussions of physical ontology often come down to two basic options. Either the basic physical entities are particles, or else they are fields. I will argue that, in fact, it is not at all clear what it would mean to say that the world consists of […]

Fair Shares and Degrees of Inequality

22 September 2016|

What does justice demand of individuals in an unjust society? Chris Marshall considers the personal implications of distributive justice.

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    28 September: Sir Karl Popper Memorial Lecture with Paul Nurse

28 September: Sir Karl Popper Memorial Lecture with Paul Nurse

21 September 2016|

Join us on 28 September for the 8th Sir Karl Popper Memorial Lecture with Nobel Prize winning geneticist Sir Paul Nurse.

Accepting Applications for Open Assistant Professorship

14 September 2016|

The Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method seeks applications for an Assistant Professor in Philosophy, to start September 2017.