We are pleased to share the last article in our Taylor Swift and Philosophy blog series. This week’s article was written by Georgie Mills, co-editor of ‘Taylor Swift and Philosophy: Essays from the Tortured Philosophers Department’ and panellist at the upcoming ‘Taylor Swift and philosophy’ public lecture at LSE.
As ever, when […]
We have reached part three of our Taylor Swift blog series. Our series highlights several chapters of the recently published book ‘Taylor Swift and Philosophy: Essays from the Tortured Philosophers Department’ by Catherine M. Robb and Georgie Mills and builds up to our anticipated ‘Taylor Swift and philosophy’ public lecture at […]
We are pleased to share the second article in our Taylor Swift blog series. Our series highlights several chapters of the recently published book ‘Taylor Swift and Philosophy: Essays from the Tortured Philosophers Department’ by Catherine M. Robb and Georgie Mills and builds up to our anticipated ‘Taylor Swift and philosophy’ […]
We are pleased to announce the first part of a very special blog series. In the next weeks, we will publish four articles on Taylor Swift and philosophy, each containing an excerpt from the recently published book ‘Taylor Swift and Philosophy: Essays from the Tortured Philosophers Department’ by Catherine M. Robb and Georgie Mills. […]
Decision-makers are sensitive to uncertainty. Prudential regulation in finance is a good example. In general, the more uncertain a financial institution is about its risk exposures, the more capital it needs to hold. But what if a financial institution is uncertain about how uncertain it is about its risks? LSE Philosophy PhD student Kangyu Wang argues that the […]
Many researchers now agree that animal consciousness is more common than once believed. One of the leading animal sentience researchers is LSE Philosophy Professor Jonathan Birch. His research is often met with scepticism from inside and outside the Philosophy world. However, he sometimes is a reasonable sceptic himself. In our latest blog post, Jonathan Birch gives insights into his inner […]
Moral Progress used to be one of the core ideas and commitments of the Enlightenment. Then it became a controversial idea, but a new theory of moral progress is now gaining traction, argues LSE Philosophy PhD student Rafael Ruiz de Lira.
Moral progress was central to the Enlightenment project. Philosophers like Kant, Hegel, Marx, and Comte […]
Research into the minds of other animals and particularly invertebrates raises questions about how we define and understand consciousness itself. LSE Philosophy PhD student Daria Zakharova discusses how creating an artistic interpretation of the mind of a spider can inspire new legislation and shed light on how we understand developments in new forms artificial of intelligence.
In the summer […]
How individuals and groups are named and designated is inextricably linked to the expected outcomes of policy decisions aimed at influencing them. Discussing her recent work on these ‘objects of credence’, LSE Philosophy Professor Anna Mahtani suggests that an attentiveness to the plurality of possible designators can help policymakers be more aware of the underlying choices inherent to […]
The head of the British army, General Sir Patrick Sanders, recently raised concerns over poor recruitment in the military. But as Jonathan Parry from LSE Philosophy and Christina Easton from Warwick University argue, there are deeper, moral concerns with military recruitment. Campaigning at schools, glamourising the work of the army in advertising, and drawing largely from a pool […]
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