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Winner of Andrea Mannu Prize UG for 2010-2011: Jonathon Gunn

19 July 2011|

The Andrea Mannu Prize UG for 2010-2011 was awarded to Jonathon Gunn for best performance by an undergraduate in any degrees administered by the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method.

Charlotte Werndl wins James T. Cushing Memorial Prize in History and Philosophy of Physics

19 April 2011|

Please join us in congratulating Charlotte Werndl, Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method at the LSE, on winning the James T. Cushing Memorial Prize in History and Philosophy of Physics for 2011.

The John J. Reilly Center for Science, Technology, and Values, along with the Graduate Program in History and Philosophy of Science […]

New book: Group Agency: The Possibility, Design and Status of Corporate Agents

18 April 2011|

Christian List, Professor of Political Science and Philosophy in the Department of Government and the Department of Philosophy at LSE, and Philip Pettit, Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Politics and Human Values at Princeton University, have a new book exploring the subject of group agency.

Are companies, churches, and states genuine agents? Or are they just collections […]

Winner of Lakatos MSc Scholarship: Alexandru Marcoci

11 April 2011|

Please join us in congratulating Alexandru Marcoci on winning this year’s Lakatos MSc Scholarship. Alexandru received a BA in Philosophy (2008) from the University of Bucharest and an MSc in Logic (2010) from the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation in Amsterdam. He is mainly interested in formal epistemology, (dynamic) epistemic logic and game theory. His research so far […]

Winner of Cara Giuletta Prize: Sarah Alexandra George

2 March 2011|

Sarah Alexandra George, a third year BSc student in the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, has been awarded the ‘Cara Giulietta’ (‘Dear Juliet’) prize after writing a letter to Shakespeare’s most romantic heroine. For more info, see here. To read her prize-winning letter, see here.

Richard Bradley awarded AHRC Fellowship

1 March 2011|

Professor Richard Bradley has been awarded an AHRC Fellowship to complete his book on “Decision Making with a Human Face”. The £82K award is to provide salary replacement for the duration of the award (January to September 2012).

Department rankings

27 February 2011|

LSE–Philosophy leads on Graduate Prospects in the University League and Subject Tables

1. LSE–Philosophy received the highest score (86) of any Philosophy Department in the UK on Graduate Prospects in the University League and Subject Tables followed by Oxford (82) and Durham (78).

2. In overall scores, LSE-Philosophy placed second with a score of 98.1, with Oxford in first place (100) […]