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LSE Philosophers at the 2015 BSPS Conference

26 June 2015|

The upcoming British Society for the Philosophy of Science (BSPS) conference features a large contingent of LSE Philosophers, including faculty, associates and research students.

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    Luc Bovens discusses the ethics of “Nudge” for public health

Luc Bovens discusses the ethics of “Nudge” for public health

12 June 2015|

On 11 May, Luc Bovens took part in “Influencing Healthy Life Styles: The Ethical Debate”, a symposium organised by the Republic of Ireland’s Department of Health.

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    LSE Philosophers help Dutch Government respond to environmental challenges

LSE Philosophers help Dutch Government respond to environmental challenges

13 May 2015|

Ideas developed by LSE Philosophers Luc Bovens and Roman Frigg encouraged the Dutch Government to adopt novel approaches to sustainability and predicting climate change.

BSc student awarded Clarendon Scholarship for Oxford

6 May 2015|

Benjamin Lange, third year student on our BSc in Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, has been awarded a Clarendon Scholarship for the full-time BPhil in Philosophy at the University of Oxford.

LSE ranked among the top ten for philosophy

30 April 2015|

LSE Philosophy has been ranked among the top ten philosophy departments in the UK and worldwide!

LSE Teaching Awards 2015

29 April 2015|

We’re proud to announce that several of our PhD students have been formally recognised by the School for the quality of their teaching!

Postdoc: LSE Fellowship in Philosophy

3 April 2015|

The Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method seeks applications for a one-year LSE Fellow in Philosophy, with the potential to extend subject to funding.

This postdoctoral fellowship provides young scholars with the opportunity to develop […]

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Rethinking Evolutionary Psychology by Andrew Goldfinch

16 March 2015|

Former LSE Philosophy PhD student and current CPNSS Research Associate, Andrew Goldfinch, has recently published his book, Rethinking Evolutionary Psychology.

In this book, Goldfinch dramatically reframes the way we think about evolutionary psychology. Rather than follow the standard way of thinking about evolutionary psychology as a paradigm and a pretender metatheory of the evolutionary behavioural sciences, Goldfinch argues that […]

LSE Philosophers at the Forthcoming BUPS Conference

6 March 2015|

We’re pleased to confirm that the British Undergraduate Philosophy Society’s Spring 2015 Conference will feature talks from LSE Philosophers.

The bi-annual BUPS conference hosts speakers from among the national undergraduate philosophy community, alongside well-known keynote speakers from across the world. The Spring 2015 conference is taking place at the University of Southampton, 21-22 March.

Professor Michael Otsuka will […]

Katherine Furman Wins Prize for Bioethics Paper

2 March 2015|

We’re very pleased to announce that Katherine Furman has won the prize for best paper in the category “Interdisciplinary Bioethics” at the 2014 Postgraduate Bioethics Conference for her paper “Is Thabo Mbeki morally responsible for his AIDS denialism?”

The Postgraduate Bioethics Conference is an annual conference aimed at doctoral researchers from a variety of disciplines whose […]