Jonathan Parry (LSE Philosophy) and Christina Easton (The University of Warwick) have now published their new paper “Filling the Ranks”: Moral Risk and the Ethics of Military Recruitment in the American Political Science Review (APSR).
About the paper: If states are permitted to create and maintain a military force, by what means are they permitted to do so? This […]
LSE Philosophy Professor Alex Voorhoeve and colleagues have published a paper on ‘Procedural fairness and the resilience of health financing reforms in Ukraine’ in Health Policy and Planning – The journal on health policy and systems research.
About the paper: In 2017, Ukraine’s Parliament passed legislation establishing a single health benefit package for the entire population called the Programme […]
LSE Philosophy Professor Alex Voorhoeve and colleagues have now published their new paper ‘Criteria for the procedural fairness of health financing decisions: a scoping review’ in Health Policy and Planning – The journal on health policy and systems research.
About the paper: The road to universal health coverage (UHC) involves difficult policy choices. This paper examines how to make […]
The inaugural issue of the journal ‘Philosophy of Physics’ (PoP) has been published by LSE Press.
The open access journal, announced last year, is published by LSE Press on behalf of the Philosophy of Physics Society. Philosophy of Physics aims to be a flagship journal for the field and […]
LSE Professor Jonathan Birch has published his latest paper ‘Medical AI, inductive risk and the communication of uncertainty: the case of disorders of consciousness’ in the Journal of Medical Ethics
How should we manage and communicate our uncertainty when a patient with a brain injury is unresponsive – and may or may not be conscious? In his new paper, […]
LSE Philosophy seeks to recruit one research student for a fully funded 4-year PhD degree, as part of the ‘Not in My Name!’ project. Applications close 15 January 2024.
The NINM project seeks to recruit one PhD student for a September 2024 start date.
The student should have an excellent undergraduate […]
The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) has been awarded a substantial grant from the Open Society Foundations for a multi-year, interdisciplinary research project on the idea, possibility and value of “Cohesive Capitalism”. Alex Voorhoeve (LSE Philosophy), Richard Bradley (LSE Philosophy) and Kai Spiekermann (LSE Government) will be part of the programme.
The interdisciplinary research project will […]
LSE Philosophy PhD Student Lorenzo Sartori has been published his new paper ‘Models Organisms as Scientific Representations’ in The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science.
About the paper: In this article, I argue that model organisms (MOs) function as representations of other organisms, in the same way in which scientific models function as representations of their targets. This […]
LSE Philosophy Professor and Head of Department Alex Voorhoeve has been appointed to the Bank of England and the UK Treasury’s Academic Advisory Group for the development of a “digital pound”, formally known as a Central Bank Digital Currency.
The group aims to encourage academic research and debate that is relevant to the development of the digital pound. The […]
LSE Professor Jonathan Birch wrote a review on Alexander Bird’s book ‘Knowing Science’. The review has been published in MIND.
In ‘Knowing Science’, Alexander Bird presents an epistemology of science that rejects empiricism and gives a central place to the concept of knowledge. Jonathan Birch weighs in on the side of the human element in his new review of […]
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