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Congratulations to Jonathan Birch on his appointment as a new Assistant Professor here in the Department.

Christian List and a team of political scientists and biologists from LSE and the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin show in new research that conflicting interests within a group can lead to better collective decisions—if you’re a social animal such as a meerkat.

Read more about the research here.

Congratulations to Fergus Green for winning this year’s Andrea Mannu Prize for the best dissertation written during the course of study and submitted for the MSc Philosophy of the Social Sciences, MSc Philosophy and Public Policy, or MSc Economics and Philosophy or on the basis of overall examination performance in one of these degrees.

In this 2-day conference, leading experts in both physics and in philosophy will meet with new researchers in the field to discuss what happens when relativity meets quantum theory. See here for more information.

Alex Voorhoeve, Reader in the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, will appear on the BBC Radio 4 programme ‘The Philosopher’s Arms’ on August 6 at 3:30 pm to discuss exploitation. To listen, see here.