Pallab Ghosh wrote an article for BBC InDepth on animal consciousness – including Jonathan Birch’s work.
The article titled ‘Are animals conscious? How new research is changing minds’ explores the the growing research into animal consciousness. The article highlights how consciousness is defined and which evidence researcher have found to back up their theory. You […]
We are happy to announce this year’s winner of the LSE Class Teacher Award 2024 for the LSE Philosophy Department.
Congratulations to Dominic Ryder!
Further, we would like to highlight the people that were ‘Highly Commended’ for the award: Bele Wollesen, Lea Bourguignon, Christabel Cane, Hanika Froneman, Veronika Luptakova, Paloma Morales, Amadeo Robiolio and Adam Wingardh
Congratulations to all! It’s a […]
The Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method is searching for an LSE Fellow in Philosophy. Application deadline: 4 July 2024.
The Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method is committed to doing excellent research and teaching in philosophy in a manner that is continuous with the social and natural sciences and is socially relevant. It is also committed […]
We are pleased to welcome Suzanne Bloks to LSE Philosophy, who will join us in September 2024 as Post Doc (Research Officer).
Suzanne will work as research officer in the ‘Cohesion and Deliberative Decision-Making’ project of the Cohesive Capitalism programme, funded by the Open Society Foundation. She wrote her PhD thesis in Philosophy in the DFG-funded PPE graduate program ‘Collective Decision-Making’ at Hamburg University. […]
LSE Philosophy Assistant Professor Ali Boyle is one of the newly selected CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars.
This year, 10 emerging research leaders will join the CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars programme cohort 2024-2026, generously supported by the Azrieli Foundation. This ambitious next-generation initiative provides two years of unrestricted funding to talented researchers tackling important and pressing questions facing science and […]
We are happy to announce that LSE Philosophy is now ranked number 1 in the UK for Philosophy.
The Complete University Guide provides a comprehensive and definitive guide to all matters related to higher education. The guide ranks the Uk’s top universities in 74 individual subject areas and is published annually.
LSE Philosophy MSc student James Rice has written a blog article for the LSE Student Blog sharing his experience at the Department.
In the latest LSE student blog article ‘Studying through adversity: how equity, diversity and inclusion works at LSE’, MSc student James Rice shares his experience when experiencing personal challenges at the Department and the School. He explains […]
LSE has published their latest edition of ‘Research for the World’ online magazine, including an article by LSE Philosophy Professor Anna Mahtani.
Who should make the decisions that affect people with dementia? LSE Philosophy Professor Anna Mahtani argues that advanced directives can help with decision-making for both those experiencing and those caring for someone with dementia.
The recording of the ‘Philosophy Live’ panel ‘Living in the past: exploring memory in humans, animals, and artificial agents’ is now online on YouTube.
Why live in the past? Humans reminisce and remember past events, even ‘replaying’ them in the mind’s eye. But why not just live in the moment? What’s the point in devoting mental resources to storing […]
LSE Philosophy Visiting Professor Christian List has published his new paper ‘Dynamically rational judgment aggregation’ in Springer.
Abstract: Judgment-aggregation theory has always focused on the attainment of rational collective judgments. But so far, rationality has been understood in static terms: as coherence of judgments at a given time, defined as consistency, completeness, and/or deductive closure. This paper asks whether […]
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