‘The Edge of Sentience’ now available online!

29 July 2024|

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 […]

New article by Paola Romero: Evita meets Thatcher

29 July 2024|

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.

Link to the article.

New Podcast episode: Climate Displacement

24 July 2024|

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 moral failings of UK military recruitment

24 July 2024|

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 […]

New article: Gödel and the nature of the mind

24 July 2024|

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 […]

Kate Vredenburgh awarded a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship

22 July 2024|

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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    Roman Frigg and Richard Bradley are part of an Innovate UK funded project

Roman Frigg and Richard Bradley are part of an Innovate UK funded project

11 July 2024|

Roman Frigg and Richard Bradley from LSE Philosophy will share their expertise in decision making under uncertainty.

The Innovate UK funded project “Hazard Impact Tracker (HIT): Leveraging New Global Cyclone Data to create a Catastrophe Portfolio Management Platform” brings together Maximum Information (a provider of information services around natural hazards), a modelling team based at Reading University, the insurer AON […]

Open Position: Graduate Programmes Manager

10 July 2024|

The Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method is searching for a Graduate Programmes Manager. Application deadline: 9 August 2024.

The Department of Philosophy, Logic, and Scientific Method at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) is seeking to appoint a full-time Graduate Programmes Manager. This role offers an exciting opportunity to make a significant contribution to […]

Lewis Ross becomes new CPNSS Director

10 July 2024|

Starting September 2024, Lewis Ross will be the new Director of the Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science (CPNSS).

Lewis Ross will take over from Bryan Roberts, who has been the Centre Director since 2020. We thank Bryan Roberts for his tremendous work in CPNSS. He has been a driving force to consolidate the standing and influence of CPNSS […]

Invertebrate minds: LSE Festival Podcast now online!

8 July 2024|

The podcast of the LSE Festival panel on ‘Invertebrate minds: from spiders to octopuses’ is now online!

Human beings are part of a vast sentient world full of conscious creatures, and even those of us far away from centres of political power have immense influence over huge numbers of animal lives – influence which we can choose to exercise […]