LSE Philosophy Associate Professor Jonathan Parry has published his new book ‘The Ethics of Humanitarian Intervention – An Introduction’ with Routledge.
Few topics generate as much controversy and debate as armed humanitarian intervention. Military force involves death and destruction, as well as interfering in other countries’ domestic affairs. But, crucially, non-intervention is also controversial. When confronted with humanitarian crises […]
We’re pleased to announce this year’s MSc prize winners – Congratulations to all of them!
The 2024 prize winners are:
Jonathan Parry (LSE Philosophy) and Christina Easton (University of Warwick) have published their new paper “Filling the Ranks”: Moral Risk and the Ethics of Military Recruitment in American Political Science Review (APSR) by Cambridge University Press.
Abstract:
If states are permitted to create and maintain a military force, by what means are they permitted to do so? This article argues […]
At the beginning of this month, LSE Philosophy Professor Jonathan Birch held his inaugural lecture at LSE. The recording of his lecture titled ‘The edge of sentience: risk and precaution in humans, other animals, and AI’ is now available online.
Can octopuses feel pain and pleasure? What about crabs, shrimps, insects or spiders? How do we tell whether a […]
The event recording of the book launch of ‘The Open Society as an enemy: populism, Popper and pessimism post-1989’ by LSE Philosophy Professor Jason Alexander is now available online.
Across the world, populist agendas on both the left and right threaten to undermine fundamental principles that underpin liberal democracies, so that what were previously seen as virtues of the […]
Professor Bryan W. Roberts has been awarded a prestigious European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant. He is among the 328 exceptional researchers across Europe to have been selected.
LSE Philosophy Professor Bryan Roberts has been awarded ERC funding for his project, The Edge of the Universe.
He said about the award: “It is an honour and really a […]
Volume 6 – Issue 1 of ‘Studies in Philosophy, Politics and Economics’ is now available online. The latest edition contains six articles and one book review of our PPE students.
Studies in Philosophy, Politics and Economics publishes sharp, original, and interdisciplinary articles by students on LSE’s PPE degree. The journal engages with pressing questions of national and international policy […]
LSE Philosophy Professor Jason Alexander has published his new book ‘The Open Society as an Enemy – A critique of how free societies turned against themselves’ with LSE Press.
Nearly 80 years ago, Karl Popper gave a spirited philosophical defence of the Open Society in his two-volume work, The Open Society and Its Enemies. In this book, J. McKenzie […]
LSE Philosophy Professor Jason Alexander gave an interview to talk about his new book ‘The Open Society as an Enemy’. The interview has been published in ‘Research for the World’, the research magazine of LSE.
The Open Society and its Enemies (1945), Karl Popper’s seminal defence of liberal society, sets out his vision for a just and democratic world, […]
LSE Philosophy Professor Jason Alexander has published a new LSE blog article on the life and work of Karl Popper.
Karl Popper, one of the most influential philosophers of science of the 20th century, was the founding figure of the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method at LSE. Professor J McKenzie Alexander explores some of the twists and […]
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