Forum for Philosophy

Cultural Evolution: from memetic evolution to intelligent design Speaker: Daniel Dennett (Tufts University) Chair: Kristina Musholt (LSE) Wednesday 20 March; 12.30-2.00 pm Old Theatre; Old Building; LSE Homo sapiens is the first species of intelligent designers to evolve by natural selection; a cascade of processes that works without any help from an intelligent designer. How was this possible? Cultural evolution…

Intuition Pumps and Other Tools in Thinking Speaker: Daniel Dennett (Tufts University) Chair: Christian List (LSE) Thursday 23 May; 6.30 - 8.00 pm Sheikh Zayed Theatre; New Academic Building; LSE Organised in collaboration with the Department of Philosophy; Logic and Scientific Method and the Forum for European Philosophy. In this lecture; one of the world's most original thinkers will show…

Tuesday 26 November; 18:30pm - 20:00pm Forum for European Philosophy Speaker: Nina Morgan (Kennesaw State University) Title: Metaphor and Crisis in Freud and Derrida In times of crisis; our understanding often makes recourse to metaphorical expressions of our condition. How (if at all) does this metaphoricity work for us? Whether in dreams; poetry; or philosophy; metaphor and symbols play a…

Tuesday 3 December; 18:30pm - 20:00pm Philosophy@LSE Speaker: Jason McKenzie Alexander (LSE) Title: The Open Society as an Enemy In 1945; Karl Popper published his defence of liberal democracy in The Open Society and Its Enemies. Now; more than seventy years later; we find ourselves living in a time when an unprecedented amount of information about our lives is made…

Monday 9 December; 18:30pm - 20:00pm Forum for European Philosophy Speaker: Leigh Jenco (LSE) Title: Zhang Shizhao: A Forgotten Theorist of Social Change 2013 marks the 40th anniversary of the death of Zhang Shizhao; an influential Chinese intellectual most people have never heard of. In this lecture; Leigh Jenco will explain why we should care about Zhang; a political theorist…

Measuring Happiness? Wednesday 15 January; 6.30-8pm Old Theatre; Old Building; LSE Paul Dolan; Professor of Behavioural Science; LSE Elaine Fox; Professor of Cognitive & Affective Psychology and Director of The Oxford Centre for Emotions and Affective Neuroscience; University of Oxford Andrew Oswald; Professor of Economics; Warwick University Ben Page; Chief Executive; Ipsos MORI Chair: Tali Sharot; Faculty Member and Director…

The Ethics of the Cognitive Sciences:

The Ethics of 'Nudge' Monday 27 January; 6.30-8pm Old Theatre; Old Building; LSE George Loewenstein; Herbert A. Simon Professor of Economics and Psychology; Carnegie Mellon University Samuel Nguyen; Senior Economist; Behavioural Insights Team; Cabinet Office Drazen Prelec; Professor of Management Science and Economics; Sloan School of Management; MIT Chair: Luc Bovens; Professor of Philosophy; LSE Better decisions versus autonomous choices:…

Inventing the Individual: The

Justice in Finance Tuesday 4 February; 6.30-8pm Wolfson Theatre; New Academic Building; LSE Gabriel Wollner; Assistant Professor; Department of Philosophy; Logic and Scientific Method; LSE and Forum for European Philosophy Fellow Chair: Bryan Roberts; Assistant Professor; Department of Philosophy; Logic and Scientific Method; LSE and Forum for European Philosophy Fellow There has recently been much debate among economists and politicians…

Plato between the Teeth of the Beast: Animals and Democracy in Tomorrow

Ethics Matters in War Thursday 13 February; 6.30-8pm Hong Kong Theatre; Clement House; LSE Cecile Fabre; Professor of Political Philosophy; University of Oxford Jeff McMahan; Professor of Philosophy; Rutgers University Chair: Gabriel Wollner; Assistant Professor; Department of Philosophy; Logic and Scientific Method; LSE and Forum for European Philosophy Fellow The 100th Anniversary of the outbreak of World War I reminds…

On Exploitation Thursday 20 February; 6.30-8pm Hong Kong Theatre; Clement House; LSE Hillel Steiner; Professor of Political Philosophy; University of Manchester Nicholas Vrousalis; Assistant Professor in Political Philosophy; Leiden University Chair: Gabriel Wollner; Assistant Professor; Department of Philosophy; Logic and Scientific Method; LSE and Forum for European Philosophy Fellow Child labour; sweatshops and low wages: There are many market exchanges…

Understanding the Self Friday 28 February; 6.30-8pm Wolfson Theatre; New Academic Building; LSE Mary Midgley; philosopher and writer. She is the author of Are you an illusion? Jonathan R

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Hypotheses on Europe and the Twentieth Century Thursday 6 March; 6.30-8pm Wolfson Theatre; New Academic Building; LSE Denis Gu