GalleryThe mind-body problem
What’s really at stake in the mind-body debate? Jonathan Birch looks at some of the explanatory differences in approaches to the metaphysics of consciousness.
GalleryApply now for 2021/22
Applications for our world-leading MSc and MPhil/PhD programmes are open. Programmes start Autumn 2021.
GalleryLives v livelihoods: Evaluating policies to address COVID-19
Policies that suppress or control COVID-19 prevent illness and save lives, but exact an economic toll. How should we balance lives and livelihoods to determine which policy is best? Richard Bradley, Alex Voorhoeve et al. compare benefit-cost and social welfare approaches to the pandemic.
GalleryG. E. Moore’s hands vs. radical scepticism
Do we need to prove that we’re not living in a computer simulation? Jonathan Birch looks at G. E. Moore’s famous argument against scepticism.
GalleryA Virus Is Not a Thing, Part 3: What virology can tell us about philosophy
How can findings in virology help answer ontological questions of process and substance? In the final post in this series, Stephan Guttinger looks at viral life cycles and the role of intrinsic properties.
GalleryHow to assess the wellbeing impacts of COVID-19 policies: A brief for the T20 forum
Matthew Adler, Richard Bradley and Alex Voorhoeve, along with a number of other researchers, have written a policy brief on how to evaluate the wellbeing impacts of policies to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic, to be presented at the Think20 forum later this year.
GalleryA Virus Is Not a Thing, Part 2: Do viruses jump? Process-thinking and the question of pandemics
What happens when a virus crosses species? Stephan Guttinger looks at viral jumps and the origins of pandemics.
GalleryOut Now: Studies in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, Vol. 2
We’re pleased to announce the publication of the second volume of our undergraduate student journal, Studies in Philosophy, Politics and Economics.
GalleryA Virus Is Not a Thing, Part 1: The case for a process view of viruses
It seems natural to picture viruses as individual microscopic entities, but might there be another more accurate way to think about them? In the first of this three-part series, Stephan Guttinger presents the case for a process view of viruses.
GalleryNicholas Shea wins the 2020 Lakatos Award
LSE is pleased to announce the winner of the 2020 Lakatos Award.
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