The new book ‘Scientific Representation’ by LSE Philosophy Professor Roman Frigg and CPNSS Research Associate James Nguyen has now been published.
Models are important in the scientific process because scientists can study a model to discover features of reality. But what does it mean for something to represent something else? This is the question discussed in this book. The […]
Four LSE academics have become Fellows of the British Academy, in recognition of their outstanding contribution to humanities and social science.
LSE Philosophy Professor Richard Bradley is among 85 distinguished Fellows who have been elected to the Academy. Bradley works on decision theory and related fields such as formal epistemology and semantics. His research explores individual decision-making under uncertainty and […]
We are excited to welcome back the 2020 and 2022 cohorts for their in-person graduation ceremony this summer! The ceremonies took place on 13 and 21 July 2022 in the Peacock Theatre followed by a reception in the Shaw Library.
We congratulate all graduates to their achievement and wish you all the best for the future!
The new book ‘Models and Theories – A Philosophical Inquiry’ by LSE Philosophy Professor Roman Frigg has now been published
Models and theories are of central importance in science, and scientists spend substantial amounts of time building, testing, comparing and revising models and theories. It is therefore not surprising that the nature of scientific models and theories has been […]
To be sentient is to have positive or negative experiences, such as experiences of pain, pleasure, comfort, warmth, hunger, anxiety or joy. Humans are sentient, but are we alone?
This is one of the many questions the expert panel discussed during the LSE Festival 2022. Title of the talk: “Do Octopuses Have Feelings? The Question of Animal Sentience”
Speakers:
Jonathan Birch, […]
The Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method has selected three new LSE Fellows to start in September 2022.
About the new Fellows:
Dr. Wesley Wrigley will be joining from the University of Oxford to take up a one-year LSE Fellowship to support teaching in Logic and the Philosophy of Science.
Dr. Thomas Ferretti, who has already been teaching […]
LSE Philosophy has been ranked 2nd in the country in The Complete University Guide 2023.
The Complete University Guide provides a comprehensive and definitive guide to all matters related to higher education. The guide ranks the country’s top universities in 74 individual subject areas and is published annually.
We are pleased to announce that we were able to improve our ranking […]
How should policy-makers measure the impact of far-reaching policies? Johanna Thoma looks at some of the issues involved in relying on a single metric.
The scope of the UK’s Animal Welfare (Sentience) Bill is to be extended to include octopuses, crabs and lobsters, in response to a report by LSE Philosophy’s Foundations of Animal Sentience project.
Applications for our world-leading MSc and MPhil/PhD programmes are now open! Programmes start Autumn 2022.
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