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Office: LAK 5.01
Evolutionary game theory. Evolution of morality and social norms. Philosophy of social science. Foundations of decision theory.
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Kant, Hegel, Continental philosophy. Anglo-American and political philosophy. Classical, “new” and neo-liberalisms. John Stuart Mill, problems of utilitarianism. Problems of contemporary citizenship and multiculturalism. The Rawls Habermas Debate.
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Rational Choice Theory. Identities and Violence. Topological Social Choice Theory.
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Office: LAK 3.01
Philosophy of the social sciences, with a particular focus on economics and measurement.
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Office: LAK 2.01
Philosophy of Economics. Philosophy and Public Policy. Philosophy of Social Science (especially the Interface between Science and Policy).
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Office: KGS 2.07
Philosophy of science. Philosophy of biology. Philosophy of cognitive science.
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Office: LAK 3.01
Philosophy of physics with a focus on foundations of quantum theory and Everettian Quantum Mechanics.
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Office: LAK 5.02
Philosophy of Cognitive Science, esp. Comparative Cognition; Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence; Philosophy of Memory; Philosophy of Biology.
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Office: LAK 2.03
Decision theory. Hypothetical reasoning. Foundations of economic and social theory.
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Office: LAK 2.05
Philosophy of science (especially philosophy of the social sciences). Epistemology (especially formal and social). Africana philosophy (especially the work of W. E. B. Du Bois).
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Office: LAK 2.04
Moral and political philosophy, especially formal approaches to these. Rational and social choice theory.
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Philosophy and history of science (especially physics and economics), causal inference, causal powers, scientific emergence and objectivity and evidence, especially for evidence-based policy [EBP].
Nancy Cartwright is Co-Director of the Centre for Humanities Engaging Science and Society and Professor of Philosophy at Durham University.
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Political Theory of Capitalism, Comparative Economic Systems, State-Market Relations.
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Office: LAK 4.04
Philosophy of Biology, Medicine and Psychiatry. Philosophy of Mind and Psychology
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Office: KGS 2.06
Philosophy of science and philosophy of physics, with a special focus on climate change. Statistical physics. Chaos theory. Scientific modelling and representation.
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Collective choice theory. Empirical studies in social choice. Theory of human rationality.
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Computational scientific discovery. Philosophy of science. Science of expertise. Acquisition of language. Cognitive training.
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Office: KGS 1.06
Moral and political philosophy
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Website: https://www.lse.ac.uk/government/people/visiting-academic-staff/vincent-harting
Normative political theory. Democratic innovations. Theories of economic justice. The history of socialist political thought.
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Office: LAK 4.02
Philosophy of science, social epistemology, formal epistemology, social structure of science
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Social choice theory. Decision theory. Political theory, formal and normative. Philosophy of science and social science. Theories of democracy and deliberation. Theories of agency, mental causation, and free will.
Christian List is Professor of Philosophy and Decision Theory at LMU Munich and Co-Director of the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy. He also continues to be affiliated with the LSE’s Philosophy Department as a Visiting Professor.
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Office: LAK 3.03
Vagueness. Philosophy of probability. Formal epistemology.
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Office: LAK 4.06
Political philosophy. Ethical theory. Rational choice and bargaining theory.
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Formal Epistemology, Philosophy of Science, Political Philosophy, Metaethics.
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Office: LAK 3.04
Moral philosophy (especially the morality of harming and saving) and political philosophy (especially political authority and obligation).
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Office: LAK 4.03
Foundational and philosophical problems of modern physics. Quantum logic. General issues in philosophy of science.
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Office: LAK 4.01
Philosophy of physics, philosophy of time, philosophy of science.
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Office: LAK 3.01
Political Philosophy. Kant’s theory of the state and his account of a political will.
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Office: LAK 1.01
Political philosophy. Epistemology, plus topics in philosophy of law, philosophy of science, and moral theory.
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Email: m.steuer@lse.ac.uk
Economic implications of culture. Evolutionary selection mechanisms. Rationality. Interaction between design and social forces.
Max Steuer joined the School’s Economics Department in 1959. He is a founding member of the Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science (CPNSS) and has regularly taught on the MSc Economics and Philosophy for the Department. He is the author of The Scientific Study of Society (2003).
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Practical rationality. Decision and game theory. Philosophy of economics. Moral philosophy.
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Office: LAK 3.02
As of Sept 2025, Alex Voorhoeve will not be available for PhD and MSc dissertation supervision.
Political philosophy. Rational and social choice theory. Moral philosophy. Philosophy of economics.
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Office: LAK 5.03
Philosophy of science and social science. Political philosophy. Philosophy of technology.
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General philosophy of science, philosophy of physics, philosophy of climate science, philosophy of mathematics, evidence and philosophy of statistics
Charlotte Werndl is a professor of philosophy at the University of Salzburg, and maintains a visiting professorship at LSE.
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Philosophy of science. Theory change in science. Nineteenth century optics. Philosophy and methodology of medicine (especially the scope and limits of scientific method). Evidence-based medicine.
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Office: LAK 4.05
Philosophy of mathematics, logic, and the history of analytic philosophy
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Office: LAK 2.02
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Website: Xinhe Wu – Home
Office: LAK 4.04
Philosophical logic, mathematical logic, metaphysics, and the philosophy of language.
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