Christian List, Professor of Political Science and Philosophy in the Departments of Government and Philosophy at the LSE, has been awarded a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship, from October 2013 to September 2016. The Leverhulme Trust makes these awards to “enable well-established and distinguished researchers in the disciplines of the Humanities and Social Sciences to devote themselves to a […]
Congratulations to our PhD student Susanne Burri, who has won the Society for Applied Philosophy’s Annual Conference Postgraduate Essay Prize 2013 for her paper ‘Personal Sovereignty and Our Moral Rights to Non-Interference’.
Congratulations to Seamus Bradley for winning this year’s Watkins Prize! The Watkins Prize is given to an outstanding student working in an area related to the research interests of Professor John Watkins: philosophy of science, political philosophy, decision theory and philosophy of biology.
Emily McTernan, who is currently an LSE Fellow in the department, has accepted a Lecturer position in the UCL Department of Political Science starting on September 2013. Congratulations!
Richard Bradley, Roman Frigg, Katie Steele, Alex Voorhoeve, and Charlotte Werndl have been awarded a £725,000 research grant by the AHRC for a research project on Managing Severe Uncertainty. The project will be pursued over three years starting in March 2013 and will investigate scientific uncertainty, especially in climate science, and how policy decisions should be made under conditions […]
Professor Erik Schokkaert (University of Leuven, Department of Economics) will be a Visiting Professor in the Department and take up the position of Belgian Chair at the University of London in 2012-13. The Belgian Chair at the University of London is a charity set up in 1930 and is funded by a donation which is administered by the […]
Professor Wlodek Rabinowicz (Department of Philosophy, University of Lund, Sweden) will be coming visiting the department from 2013-2016 as Centennial Professor. His areas of research are moral philosophy, value theory, decision theory, and philosophical logic.
We are pleased to announce that Professor Michael Otsuka will be moving from UCL to LSE to take up a Professorship in the Department starting from September 2013. Professor Otsuka writes: “While my work will remain squarely within moral and political philosophy, I’ve found myself turning more, in recent years, to the work of philosophically inclined rational and […]
Professor Nancy Cartwright will be leaving the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method for the University of Durham. Dr. Alex Voorhoeve will be on sabbatical next year, and Dr. Jason Alexander will be on sabbatical in the Spring term. Dr. Charlotte Werndl is on maternity leave. We welcome five new members to our staff. […]
The Andrea Mannu Prize UG for 2011-2012 was awarded to James Matharu for best performance by an undergraduate in any degrees administered by the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method.
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