GalleryLuc Bovens joins Hope and Optimism project
From August 2016, Luc Bovens will take part in Cornell University’s Hope and Optimism project, researching the philosophy of coping.
GalleryWhy is doping wrong anyway?
Most sports ban certain performance-enhancing drugs and penalise those who use them. But is the use of these drugs morally wrong? Heather Dyke looks at the ethics of doping.
Matías Reeves (2014–2015)
My time at the LSE was incredible. To live in London is a lifetime experience, but especially if you are doing something you love. The MSc in Philosophy and Public Policy (PPP) was exactly what I was looking for. After six years working on education, and in the middle of years of public debate in Chile, I decided that […]
GalleryKatherine Furman to take up Postdoctoral Position at Durham
PhD student, Katherine Furman, will be taking up a Postdoctoral Research Associate position in Durham University’s Philosophy Department in October.
James Nguyen awarded Popper Prize
James Nguyen, has been awarded this year’s Popper Prize for his paper “On the Pragmatic Equivalence between Representing Data and Phenomena”.
GalleryCarlo Rovelli (Marseille): “Why Physics Needs Philosophy” (video)
Carlo Rovelli (Marseille): “Why Physics Needs Philosophy”
Once again, Physics is facing foundational questions: What is the nature of time? What is the nature of space? How did the Universe begin? What is the role of the mind in the description of reality? Can we understand Nature just in terms of elementary constituents?…
Questions of this sort cannot be […]
Carlo Rovelli (Marseille): “Why Physics Needs Philosophy” (podcast)
Carlo Rovelli (Marseille): “Why Physics Needs Philosophy”
Once again, Physics is facing foundational questions: What is the nature of time? What is the nature of space? How did the Universe begin? What is the role of the mind in the description of reality? Can we understand Nature just in terms of elementary constituents?…
Questions of this sort cannot be addressed without […]
GalleryJames Weatherall (UC Irvine): “Some Philosophical Prehistory of the Earman-Norton Hole Argument”
James Weatherall (UC Irvine): “Some Philosophical Prehistory of the Earman-Norton Hole Argument”
James Weatherall is Professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science at the University of California, Irvine.
Recorded at The Hole Shebang workshop, LSE, 15 July 2016.
The Hole Shebang brought together philosophers and physicists to discuss a recent debate surrounding interpretations of the Hole Argument.
This was a “satellite” […]
Bryan W. Roberts (LSE): “Some curious examples of mathematical representation”
Bryan W. Roberts (LSE): “Some curious examples of mathematical representation”
Recorded at The Hole Shebang workshop, LSE, 15 July 2016.
The Hole Shebang brought together philosophers and physicists to discuss a recent debate surrounding interpretations of the Hole Argument.
This was a “satellite” workshop held the day before Foundations 2016, the 18th UK/EU conference on foundations of physics. Both of […]
Samuel C. Fletcher (Minnesota & MCMP): “Elvis has left the building”
Samuel C. Fletcher (Minnesota & MCMP): “Elvis has left the building”
Recorded at The Hole Shebang workshop, LSE, 15 July 2016.
The Hole Shebang brought together philosophers and physicists to discuss a recent debate surrounding interpretations of the Hole Argument.
This was a “satellite” workshop held the day before Foundations 2016, the 18th UK/EU conference on foundations of physics. Both […]
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