LSE Philosophy seeks to appoint a two-year LSE-Fellow in Philosophy of Science and Physics. Application deadline: 8 March 2024.
An LSE Fellowship is intended to be an entry route to an academic career and is deemed by the School to be a career development position. As such, applicants who have already been employed as a LSE Fellow for three […]
LSE Philosophy Professor Roman Frigg and CPNSS Project Leader Charlotte Werndl have published their new book ‘Foundations of Statistical Mechanics’ with Cambridge University Press.
About the book: Statistical mechanics is the third pillar of modern physics, next to quantum theory and relativity theory. It aims to account for the behaviour of macroscopic systems in terms of the dynamical laws that […]
LSE Philosophy Professor Roman Frigg will speak at the upcoming HPS Annual Conference, which will take place 4-5 April 2024. Call for papers now open!
The University of Notre Dame is hosting its fifth annual History and Philosophy of Science conference. Our theme is Unity & Disunity in Science: Philosophical, Historical, and Theological Perspectives. The plenary speakers are Peter Harrison, […]
LSE Philosophy Professor Roman Frigg and colleagues are organising the 6th Scientific Understanding and Representation (SURe) Workshop which will take place 17-19 June 2024. Call for papers now open!
Representations play a central role in scientists’ understanding of the world. From mathematical models to diagrams, different representations in highly varied contexts yield diverse insights across the physical, biological, and […]
Francisco Calderón (University of Michigan), Laura Ruetsche (University of Michigan), Chris Mitsch (University of Pittsburgh) and Jingyi Wu (LSE Philosophy) are organising the First Feminist Philosophy of Physics Workshop which will take place 20-21 June 2024 at the University of Michigan. Call for papers are now open!
We invite submissions from scholars at all career stages to the first […]
We’re pleased to announce this year’s MSc prize winners – Congratulations to all of them!
The 2023 prize winners are:
Jonathan Parry (LSE Philosophy) and Christina Easton (The University of Warwick) have now published their new paper “Filling the Ranks”: Moral Risk and the Ethics of Military Recruitment in the American Political Science Review (APSR).
About the paper: If states are permitted to create and maintain a military force, by what means are they permitted to do so? This […]
LSE Philosophy Professor Alex Voorhoeve and colleagues have published a paper on ‘Procedural fairness and the resilience of health financing reforms in Ukraine’ in Health Policy and Planning – The journal on health policy and systems research.
About the paper: In 2017, Ukraine’s Parliament passed legislation establishing a single health benefit package for the entire population called the Programme […]
LSE Philosophy Professor Alex Voorhoeve and colleagues have now published their new paper ‘Criteria for the procedural fairness of health financing decisions: a scoping review’ in Health Policy and Planning – The journal on health policy and systems research.
About the paper: The road to universal health coverage (UHC) involves difficult policy choices. This paper examines how to make […]
The inaugural issue of the journal ‘Philosophy of Physics’ (PoP) has been published by LSE Press.
The open access journal, announced last year, is published by LSE Press on behalf of the Philosophy of Physics Society. Philosophy of Physics aims to be a flagship journal for the field and […]
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