Kieran Oberman (Associate Professor) and Thomas Ferretti (former LSE Philosophy Fellow) will take part in the upcoming LSE Festival. The festival takes place from 12-17 June 2023. Tickets for the programme are now available!
How does change affect people? How do people effect change? The LSE Festival 2023 will take place from Monday 12 to Saturday 17 June 2023. […]
Rosalind Arden, Research Fellow at the Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science (CPNSS), and Theodore Hill (Georgia Institute of Technology) have now published their new paper ‘Recurring Errors in Studies of Gender Differences in Variability’ in the journal ‘Stats’.
About the paper:
Charles Darwin noticed that in some species, in some traits, males were more variable than females. Since […]
Rosalind Arden, Research Fellow at the Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science (CPNSS), and colleagues have now published their new paper ‘Majestic tigers: personality structure in the great Amur cat’ in the journal ‘Royal Society Open Science’.
“Our research shows that tigers can be understood through two key personality features and how they rate for each. All […]
LSE Philosophy Assistant Professor Lewis Ross, Miguel Egler (Tilburg University) and Lisa Bastian (VU Amsterdam) have edited a special issue of the ‘American Philosophical Quartlery’ titled ‘Philosophical Dimensions of the Trial’
About the special issue:
Legal trials are a rich source of philosophical interest. Familiar moral and political topics often discussed in the abstract by philosophers find concrete expression in […]
We are pleased to announce that Harriet Fagerberg will be joining our Department in September 2023 as LSE Fellow.
Harriet Fagerberg completed a PhD in philosophy with King’s College London and Humboldt-Unversität zu Berlin before becoming a Postdotoral Fellow at Hunter College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY). Harriet’s primary research […]
Marius Backmann (LSE Philosophy) and Amber Griffioen (Duke Kunshan University) have published their book ‘Pluralizing Philosophy’s Past: New Reflections in the History of Philosophy’ with Springer
The book is a collection of 15 accessible essays on neglected philosophical figures and traditions aims to provide readers with concrete access points to less familiar philosophical sources and methods. Showcasing the latest […]
LSE Philosophy has been ranked 3rd in the world in the 2023 QS World University Rankings by Subject, the highest ranking of any UK-based philosophy department.
The QS World University Rankings by Subject ranks the world’s top universities in individual subject areas, covering 51 subjects. Published annually since 2011, the rankings by subject are based on academic reputation, employer […]
LSE Philosophy Assistant Professor Lewis Ross just published his article ‘Why it’s time to allow researchers access to jury deliberations’ in the LSE magazine ‘Research for the World’ Issue 13.
While the secrecy of jury deliberations is regarded as fundamental, philosopher Lewis Ross argues there is a moral imperative to allow access for research. You […]
We are pleased to announce that Jingyi Wu will be joining our Department in September 2023 as Assistant Professor.
Jingyi Wu is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science (LPS) at UC Irvine. Jingyi primarily works on social epistemology and philosophy of physics but also has an interest in general […]
LSE Assistant Professor Kate Vredenburgh was interviewed by Lara Lewington from BBC Radio 4 about ChatGPT.
In her latest radio piece, Lara Lewington explores the possibilities of AI and how it will change our lives – as well as the ethical aspects of applications such as ChatGPT. The interview is available on the BBC website.
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