GalleryNicholas Makins awarded John Watkins Memorial Prize
We’re pleased to announce that PhD student Nick Makins has been awarded the 2020/21 John Watkins Memorial Prize.
GalleryOut of the Vat #9 – Lucy Campbell
Lucy Campbell is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick, specialising in epistemology and philosophy of mind. In this episode, we talk to Lucy about self-knowledge, sheepdogs, and pinhole photography…
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GalleryChristina Easton awarded British Academy Fellowship to investigate tolerance in the classroom
We’re pleased to announce that Christina Easton has been awarded a Postdoctoral Fellowship by the British Academy for her new research project, Opening minds: A new analysis of tolerance for the classroom.
GalleryStatins and CVD (Cardio-Vascular Disease): Now It’s Personal!
What does the evidence say about the effectiveness of statins and about the balance between effectiveness and possible adverse side-effects? John Worrall – a long-time analyst of evidence in medicine – has recently had personal reason to reconsider these questions.
GalleryFranz Dietrich (CNRS): “Dynamically Rational Judgment Aggregation”
Franz Dietrich (CNRS): “Dynamically Rational Judgment Aggregation”
A key goal in judgment aggregation theory has always been to make collective judgments rational. So far, rationality has been understood in purely static terms: as coherence of judgments at a given time, where ‘coherence’ could for instance mean consistency, or completeness, or deductive closure, or combinations thereof. By contrast, this […]
Franz Dietrich (PSE & CNRS) & Kai Spiekermann (LSE): “Does Deliberation Improve Voting Outcomes”
Franz Dietrich (PSE & CNRS) & Kai Spiekermann (LSE): “Does Deliberation Improve Voting Outcomes”
Does prior deliberation increase the epistemic quality of majority voting? This depends on whether the deliberators have private information to share (they are, in a certain sense, “diverse”) and on how the information is aggregated. Without prior deliberation, voting can display three epistemic failures: […]
GalleryAlex Voorhoeve & a team led by Norihito Sakamoto awarded grant for three-year research project on social welfare functions
We’re pleased to announce that Professor Alex Voorhoeve has been awarded a grant by the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science for a three-year research project investigating the use of social welfare functions.
GallerySean A. Valles (Michigan State): “Housing security’s place in a ‘Culture of Health’: Lessons from the pandemic housing crises in the US and England”
Sean A. Valles (Michigan State): “Housing security’s place in a ‘Culture of Health’: Lessons from the pandemic housing crises in the US and England”
When the COVID-19 pandemic arrived in the US and England, it quickly proved to be particularly deadly for people experiencing homelessness. Soon afterward, the economic impacts of the pandemic began creating new housing security […]
GalleryHow should artificial agents make risky choices on our behalf?
Should artificial agents’ responses to difficult choices align with our own moral intuitions? Johanna Thoma considers the difficulties involved in programming machines to deal with risk, and how things look different from an aggregate point of view.
GalleryHow studying the history and philosophy of RNA can help us understand COVID-19
How can the philosophy of science help inform our response to COVID-19? Stephan Guttinger looks at the history and philosophy of ribonucleic acid (RNA), a central but often overlooked molecule in the story of the pandemic.
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