LSE Philosophy Assistant Professor Lewis Ross has published his new article ‘Mock juries, real trials: how to solve (some) problems with jury science’ in the Journal of Law and Society.
Jury science is fraught with difficulty. Since legal and institutional hurdles render it all but impossible to study live criminal jury deliberation, researchers make use of various indirect methods […]
We are pleased to announce the winners of Popper Prize and The John Watkins Memorial Prize 2024.
Lea Bourguignon has been awarded the Watkins Prize for her paper “On the Possibility of Act Contractualism” (Australasian Journal of Philosophy).
Lorenzo Sartori has been awarded the Popper Memorial Prize for his paper “Model Organisms […]
The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) is pleased to announce the winner of the 2024 Lakatos Award, which goes to Carl Hoefer for his book ‘Chance in the World: A Humean Guide to Objective Chance’ (Oxford University Press, 2019).
The Lakatos Award was made possible by a generous endowment from the Latsis Foundation, in memory of […]
Call for nominations for the 2025 Lakatos Award: Deadline: 1 September 2024.
For the 2025 Award, books published in English with an imprint from 2019 to 2024, inclusive, are eligible. The award is given for a monograph in the philosophy of science broadly construed, either single authored or co-authored, published in English. Anthologies and edited collections are not eligible. Any person of recognised standing within […]
LSE Philosophy Professor Jonathan Birch has published his new book ‘The Edge of Sentience: Risk and Precaution in Humans, Other Animals, and AI’ with Oxford University Press. The online version is available for free now! The print book will be available on 15 August 2024.
Can octopuses feel pain and pleasure? What about crabs, shrimps, insects, or spiders? How […]
LSE Philosophy Guest Teacher Paola Romero wrote an article about the Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado for the Spectator.
The article ‘Evita meets Thatcher: the woman fighting Venezuela’s autocracy’ is available online.
LSE Philosophy MSc alumnus Hamza King has published his latest Podcast episode. Hamza King sits down with Jamie Draper to discuss climate displacement. Jamie is an Assistant Professor of Political Philosophy at Utrecht University and author of ‘Climate Displacement’ (2023).
A protection gap exists under international law for those displacement by the impacts of climate change. The 1951 Refugee […]
The army has a duty of care to its soldiers. But instead of seeking to reduce their exposure to moral harm, the UK is concentrating the risk of moral injury on its youngest and most disadvantaged citizens, writes LSE Philosophy Assistant Professor Jonathan Parry in his latest article for LSE Research for the World.
Rising global conflict and defence […]
LSE Philosophy Fellow Wesley Wrigley wrote an article for the online iai magazine by the Institute of Art and Ideas about the Penrose’s Gödelian Argument.
Gödel’s incompleteness theorems shook the foundations of mathematics, revealing its inherent limitations. These discoveries are now among the most significant in the field and have inspired various philosophical viewpoints. One influential perspective, proposed by […]
LSE Philosophy Assistant Professor Kate Vredenburgh has been awarded a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship (FLF).
The FLF scheme provides long-term support which enables fellows to tackle ambitious programmes or multidisciplinary questions, and new or emerging research and innovation areas and partnerships.
The aim of the scheme is to develop the next wave of world-class research and innovation leaders in academia […]
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