LSE Philosophy has been ranked 2nd best in the world in the 2025 QS World University Rankings by Subject, the highest ranking of any UK-based philosophy department.
We’re very pleased to announce that LSE Philosophy has been placed 2nd for the second year in a row. Link to the full ranking.
The QS World University Rankings […]
Could AI develop true intelligence without sentience? LSE Philosophy Professor Jonathan Birch explores the boundaries of artificial and evolved minds in a recent Big Think article.
Scientists love a good classification system. It’s important to give things labels and it’s fun to step back and look at your beautiful taxonomic tables. Given that Aristotle is considered one of the […]
LSE Philosophy Assistant Professor Lewis Ross has published his new paper on ‘Reintegrative Retributivism’ in the Modern Law Review.
Abstract: Pessimistic empirical evidence about the reformatory and deterrent effects of punitive treatment poses a challenge for all justificatory theories of punishment. Yet, the dominant progressive view remains that punishment is required for the most serious crimes. This paper outlines […]
LSE PhD student Mazlum Özkan wrote a review of J. McKenzie Alexander‘s new book ‘The Open Society as an Enemy’ for the LSE book review blog.
J. McKenzie Alexander‘s The Open Society as an Enemy revisits Karl Popper’s foundational work on the concept of the “open society” in relation to contemporary threats to democratic values, from the rise of […]
LSE Philosophy Associate Professor Kieran Oberman has published his new paper ‘Enough Spurious Distinctions: Refugees are Just People in Need of Refuge’ in Springer Nature.
About the paper: What makes refugees different to non-refugee migrants? A plausible answer is that refugees need refuge. Within their home state, they fall below some threshold. To fulfil their basic human needs, they […]
LSE Philosophy Professor Jason Alexander has given an interview for the Gamer Changer podcast discussing evolutionary game theory and its applications.
The episode includes an overview of different models from evolutionary game theory starting with the local interaction model and then moving to the replicator model. Further, Jason Alexanders talks about the applications in social theory especially when discussing proto-moral behaviour.
The […]
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.
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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 […]
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