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Ethics Matters in Financial Theory: Christian Walter and Jean-Pierre Zigrand
Ethics Matters in Financial Theory Tuesday 13 May; 6.30
Find out more »Wlodek Rabinowicz (Lund & LSE): Safeguards of a Disunified Mind
Safeguards of a Disunified Mind Tuesday 20 May; 6.30
Find out more »Poverty; Justice and Development: David Hulme and Thomas Pogge
Poverty; Justice and Development Thursday 22 May; 6.30
Find out more »Wise Choices: Maria Alvarez; Lisa Bortolotti; Christian List and Magda Osman
Wise Choices Tuesday 27 May; 6.30
Find out more »On Sexual Difference – Thinking with Catherine Malabou: Catherine Malabou; Michael O
On Sexual Difference: Thinking with Catherine Malabou Monday 2 June; 6.30
Find out more »William MacAskill (Oxford): On Making a Difference and Choosing a Caree
On Making a Difference and Choosing a Career Tuesday 3 June; 6.30
Find out more »The Evolution of Culture in Monkeys; Apes and Humans: Jonathan Birch and Andrew Whitten
The Evolution of Culture in Monkeys; Apes and Humans Thursday 12 June; 6.30
Find out more »Philosophy Challenge
Philosophy Challenge Thursday 26 June; 6.30
Find out more »Bryan W. Roberts, “The Limits of Science”
Science has become so good at understanding limits that, incredibly, we can even use science to grasp the limits of science itself. Many of these limits are famous, such as the speed of light, Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle, and Gödel’s incompleteness theorems. But there are many others that are not so famous. This public lecture will discuss how such scientific limits…
Find out more »Philip Pettit (Princeton University): The Infrastructure of Democracy
Abstract: Democracy, at its best, requires the demos or people to have kratos or control. Since control involves not just influencing policy but also shaping it, democracy in this sense is a very rich ideal; it requires people to have an equally accessible form of influence that imposes on government policy an equally acceptable shape. Yet there are institutions that…
Find out more »Food Policy: ethics for your kitchen and beyond
You love it, you need it. But food production and consumption are changing fast. What are the ethics and policy issues on your dinner plate today? What does it mean to be healthy or sustainable? Do we need new food policies, and if so, which ones? Come join the discussion with: Luc Bovens, Professor of Philosophy, LSE Elena Rivilla Lutterkort,…
Find out more »Adam Swift (Prof. of Political Theory; University of Warwick): Ethics Matters in the Family
Ethics Matters in the Family Thursday 13 November; 6.30
Find out more »John Broome (University of Oxford): Ethics Matters in Climate Change
Climate change is a moral problem. Through our emissions, each of us causes harm to others - something that generally we should not do. Some people are already suffering great harm from climate change. What should we do to remedy the situation? A solution can be achieved only through the coordinated actions of governments, and difficult ethical analysis is required…
Find out more »Benjamin Noys (University of Chichester): Accelerate Europe – the geographical imaginaries of accelerationism
How can we imagine a way out of the stasis of a Europe mired in financial crisis? The proponents of ‘accelerationism’ argue the need to embrace forces of abstraction and technology that can escape ‘old’ Europe. In this talk, Benjamin Noys will critically explore these alternative geographical imaginaries as attempts to come to terms with the ‘uneven’ forms of capital…
Find out more »Questions of Identity: Vincent Descombes (University of Chicago & School for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences, Paris), Alan Montefiore (University of Oxford & FEP)
Questions of Identity Thursday 11 December, 6.30-8pm Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building, LSE Vincent Descombes, Visiting Professor of French Literature, University of Chicago and Director of Studies, School for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences, Paris Alan Montefiore, Emeritus Fellow, Balliol College, University of Oxford and President of the Forum for European Philosophy Chair: Danielle Sands, Lecturer in Philosophy, Royal Holloway,…
Find out more »Peter Dennis (LSE): What Is Rationality, Anyway?
Appeals to rationality are found in every area of life. We all aspire to be rational, and criticise others when we think they’re being irrational. But how can we accuse one other of being irrational if we don’t know what it is? In this lecture, Peter Dennis will consider what rationality is—and why we need it. Peter Dennis, LSE Fellow,…
Find out more »Is the Brain a Predictive Machine?
Is the world you are experiencing a mere forecast created by your brain? Research in neuroscience has suggested that you don’t see the colour of the sky but you anticipate its blueness and use your sense of vision to adjust this prediction. This radical idea explains how your brain can be one step ahead of reality, but also susceptible to…
Find out more »Simon Blackburn (Cambridge) & Pascal Engel (Geneva): On Truth
Realists take truth to be a robust property of our thoughts and assertions, one which fits certain facts in the world. Deflationists, expressivists and pragmatists disagree: for them truth is a very shallow notion, which comes down to a few (important) trivialities. The view one takes on truth has important consequences for all sorts of issues, in particular for moral…
Find out more »Onora O’Neill (Cambridge) & Jonathan Wolff (UCL): On Informed Consent
Informed consent is not the most fundamental ethical standard, but a means of securing respect for other, more basic standards or aims. It is neither possible nor required when public goods – such as sound currency or clean air – are to be provided. Where it is possible and can be required, as in transactions with individuals, it must be…
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