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.
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Alex Voorhoeve, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, has accepted a Laurence Rockefeller Fellowship for 2012–2013 at The University Center for Human Values at Princeton University. Congratulations, Alex!
MSc Philosophy of Science student was awarded the Imre Lakatos Prize for his outstanding dissertation.
PhD student Susanne Burri was awarded the Popper Prize this year for her paper ‘The Fair Distribution of Bad Luck’.
The Departmental Teaching Prize was awarded to Ben Ferguson.
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