The Department has been ranked first in the UK for graduate prospects in the Complete University Guide: University Subject Tables 2013, third overall in the Complete University Guide: University Subject Tables 2013, and third in the UK in the University Guide 2013: League Table for Philosophy.
Please join us in congratulating Chris Blunt for winning the 2012 GTA Teaching Award. Well done, Chris!
Dr. Foad Dizadji-Bahmani (LSE Fellow) will take up a position as Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy in California State University in LA starting January 2013.
Dr. Amandine Catala (LSE Fellow) will take up a one-year fellowship at the Hoover Chair of Economic and Social Ethics in the Université Catholic de Louvain (Belgium) starting in the Fall of 2012.
We are proud to announce that Dr. Alex Voorhoeve is one of five winners of the 2012 LSE Teaching Excellence Award. Teaching Excellence Awards are major prizes within the School that recognise and reward the best teachers in the School. Nominations come from students and the process is entirely student-led.
Congratulations to Alex upon this achievement! His contribution to […]
The Department is pleased to welcome a new lecturer, Dr Gabriel Wollner (currently at Harvard and Bayreuth), and three new LSE Fellows, Dr Joseph Mazor (currently at Stanford), Emily McTernan (currently at Cambridge), and Andrew Khoury (currently at ASU), who will be taking up their positions during the coming academic year.
Richard Bradley, Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, appeared on the BBC Radio 4 programme ‘In Our Time’ on May 10 to discuss the nature and significance of game theory.
For more information on the programme and to listen to the discussion, see here.
Colin Howson, Emeritus Professor in the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, has a new book, Objecting to God, published last July by Cambridge University Press. The book evaluates the evidence old and new for the existence of a God of the sort the Abrahamic religions postulate, and concludes that there really isn’t any: on the […]
John Worrall, Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, participated in a discussion of the significance of Nassim Nicholas Taleb and his book ‘The Black Swan’ in the BBC Radio 4 programme ‘Analysis’.
For more information on the programme and to listen to the discussion, see here.
To download the podcast, click here.
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John Worrall, Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, participated in a discussion of philosophy and the scientific method in the BBC Radio 4 programme ‘In Our Time’.
For more information on the programme and to listen to the discussion, see here.
To download the podcast, click here.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
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