In her recent article for Forbes, Marlena Corcoran dives into PPE offers in the UK. Her verdict: PPE is booming!
The undergraduate degree PPE stands for Philosophy, Politics And Economics and has along tradition in the UK. It’s being offered at various universities across the UK – including LSE. Forbes has now published an articles highlighting the advantages of […]
Wesley Wrigley (LSE Philosophy) and Alexander Paseau (Oxford) have now published their new book ‘The Euclidean Programme’ with Cambridge University Press.
About the book: The Euclidean Programme embodies a traditional sort of epistemological foundationalism, according to which knowledge – especially mathematical knowledge – is obtained by deduction from self-evident axioms or first principles. Epistemologists have examined foundationalism extensively, but […]
Miklós Rédei (LSE Philosophy) and Márton Gömöri (Eötvös University) have published their new paper ‘Entropic taming of the Look Elsewhere Effect’ in Springer.
About the paper: To mitigate the Look Elsewhere Effect in multiple hypothesis testing using p-values, the paper suggests an “entropic correction” of the significance level at which the null hypothesis is rejected. The proposed correction uses […]
CPNSS seeks to appoint a two-year Postdoctoral Researcher for the ‘Cohesion and Deliberative Decision-Making’ Project. Application deadline: 8 March 2024.
The Postdoctoral Research Officer for the work stream ‘Cohesion and Deliberative Decision-Making’, will be led by Prof. Alex Voorhoeve, Prof. Kai Spiekermann, and Prof. Richard Bradley, within the Cohesive Capitalism programme, funded by the Open Society Foundation. The position […]
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:
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