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.
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.
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