Lakatos Award Lecture by Carl Hoefer

Join us as Carl Hoefer gives a public lecture on his Lakatos Award winning book, Chance in the World: A Humean Guide to Objective Chance.

Time: 6:00pm–7:15pm

Place: Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House, LSE Campus. Hybrid option TBA.

The lecture is followed by a reception in the Shaw Library, Old Building, LSE Campus.

Carl Hoefer is an ICREA Research Professor and currently the Scientific Director of the Barcelona Institute of Analytic Philosophy (BIAP), which recently became a María de Maeztu Unit of Excellence with funding for 2023-2026. His research interests include topics such as scientific realism (i.e., should we take our best scientific theories to be giving us objective truth about the world?); how to understand quantum non-locality; and the connection between the descriptions of the world given in physics and the descriptions familiar from higher-level sciences and everyday experience.

Carl Hoefer won the 2024 Lakatos Award.

The Lakatos Award is given annually for an outstanding contribution to the philosophy of science, widely interpreted, in the form of a book published in English during the current year or the previous five years.

The event is free and open to all. No registration required.