Featured

Lakatos Award 2024: Call for nominations!

6 July 2023|

Call for nominations for the 2024 Lakatos Award: Deadline: 1 September 2023.

The 2024 award will be for a monograph in the philosophy of science broadly construed, either single authored or co-authored, published in English with an imprint from 2018 to 2023, inclusive. Anthologies and edited collections are not eligible. Any person of recognised standing within the philosophy of science or […]

Michela Massimi wins the 2023 Lakatos Award

6 July 2023|

The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) is pleased to announce the winner of the 2023 Lakatos Award, which goes to Michela Massimi for her book ‘Perspectival Realism’ (Oxford University Press, 2022).

The Lakatos Award was made possible by a generous endowment from the Latsis Foundation, in memory of the former LSE professor Imre Lakatos. It is […]

Apply now! Ethics of AI Masterclass

27 June 2023|

Develop the tools and skills to practise ethical reasoning and manage the diverse impacts of AI on individuals and society – with content by Kate Vredenburgh and Thomas Ferretti, lead by Paola Romero.

As artificial intelligence (AI) adoption becomes more commonplace, so do questions of the ethics surrounding the design and implementation of it. In order to critically assess […]

Animal Liberation Now: Book Review by Jonathan Birch

26 June 2023|

LSE Philosophy Associate Professor Jonathan Birch has reviewed Peter Singer’s latest book ‘Animal Liberation Now’. The review has now been published in Nature.

Peter Singer’s book ‘Animal Liberation’ was first published 1975. The book delivers reports on animal suffering caused by intensive-farming systems. Almost 50 years later, Singer wrote an updated edition called ‘Animal Liberation Now’ in which he […]

Video online: How is AI Changing the World?

26 June 2023|

How does change affect people? How do people effect change? Those were the big questions of the LSE Festival 2023. The video of the panel ‘How is AI Changing the World?’ including Thomas Ferretti (former LSE Philosophy Fellow) is now available online!

The sudden rise of ChatGPT has confirmed that artificial intelligence is no longer a technology of the […]

  • Permalink Gallery

    ‘A Woman First and a Philosopher Second’: New paper by Ella Whiteley

‘A Woman First and a Philosopher Second’: New paper by Ella Whiteley

22 June 2023|

‘A Woman First and a Philosopher Second’: Relative Attentional Surplus on the Wrong Property – The new paper by LSE Philosophy Fellow Ella Whiteley has now been published in the journal Ethics.

About the paper: One theme in complaints from those with marginalized social identities is that they are seen primarily in terms of that identity. Some Black artists, […]

New Article on Insect Welfare Published in PLOS Biology

2 June 2023|

CPNSS researchers Andrew Crump and Jonathan Birch and colleagues have now published their new article ‘Is it time for insect researchers to consider their subjects’ welfare?’ in PLOS Biology.

About the article: Insect researchers are rarely asked to think about their subjects’ welfare. However, most people agree that humans should, where feasible, at least consider the welfare of animals […]

Open Position: LSE Fellow in Philosophy

25 May 2023|

LSE Philosophy is searching for an LSE Fellow in Philosophy. Application deadline: 12 June 2023.

This is a fixed term appointment for 24 months commencing from September 2023.

Candidates should have

  • A completed PhD in Philosophy or another relevant discipline (or a PhD near completion) by the post start date;
  • A developing, high-quality research record in Philosophy relevant to the […]
  • Permalink Gallery

    LSE Philosophy at the LSE Festival 2023: Tickets now online!

LSE Philosophy at the LSE Festival 2023: Tickets now online!

15 May 2023|

Kieran Oberman (Associate Professor) and Thomas Ferretti (former LSE Philosophy Fellow) will take part in the upcoming LSE Festival. The festival takes place from 12-17 June 2023. Tickets for the programme are now available!

How does change affect people? How do people effect change? The LSE Festival 2023 will take place from Monday 12 to Saturday 17 June 2023. […]

CPNSS News: New Publication by Rosalind Arden

11 May 2023|

Rosalind Arden, Research Fellow at the Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science (CPNSS), and Theodore Hill (Georgia Institute of Technology) have now published their new paper ‘Recurring Errors in Studies of Gender Differences in Variability’ in the journal ‘Stats’.

About the paper:

Charles Darwin noticed that in some species, in some traits, males were more variable than females. Since […]