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    LSE Philosophy Professor Alex Voorhoeve has been appointed as Vice President and Pro-Vice Chancellor

LSE Philosophy Professor Alex Voorhoeve has been appointed as Vice President and Pro-Vice Chancellor

2 September 2024|

LSE is pleased to announce that Professor Alex  Voorhoeve has been appointed as the next Vice President and Pro-Vice Chancellor (Faculty Development), effective from 1 September 2025.

Alex Voorhoeve is a leading thinker on egalitarian conceptions of justice and their implications for public policy, especially in health. While his focus is on political philosophy, Alex’s work is thoroughly interdisciplinary; he […]

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New article by Lewis Ross

21 August 2024|

LSE Philosophy Assistant Professor Lewis Ross has published his new article ‘Mock juries, real trials: how to solve (some) problems with jury science’ in the Journal of Law and Society.

Jury science is fraught with difficulty. Since legal and institutional hurdles render it all but impossible to study live criminal jury deliberation, researchers make use of various indirect methods […]

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LSE Philosophy Prizes 2024

19 August 2024|

We are pleased to announce the winners of Popper Prize and The John Watkins Memorial Prize 2024.

Lea Bourguignon has been awarded the Watkins Prize for her paper “On the Possibility of Act Contractualism” (Australasian Journal of Philosophy).

Lorenzo Sartori has been awarded the Popper Memorial Prize for his paper “Model Organisms […]

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Carl Hoefer wins the 2024 Lakatos Award!

12 August 2024|

The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) is pleased to announce the winner of the 2024 Lakatos Award, which goes to Carl Hoefer for his book ‘Chance in the World: A Humean Guide to Objective Chance’ (Oxford University Press, 2019).

The Lakatos Award was made possible by a generous endowment from the Latsis Foundation, in memory of […]

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Lakatos Award 2025: Call for nominations!

6 August 2024|

Call for nominations for the 2025 Lakatos Award: Deadline: 1 September 2024.

For the 2025 Award, books published in English with an imprint from 2019 to 2024, inclusive, are eligible. The award is given for a monograph in the philosophy of science broadly construed, either single authored or co-authored, published in English. Anthologies and edited collections are not eligible. Any person of recognised standing within […]

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‘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 […]

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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.

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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