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CANCELLED – Kate Greasley (University of Oxford): ‘Using Law to Improve Morality’
This event has been cancelled. Abstract: Leslie Green argues that law can be an efficacious and warranted means of improving social morality and bringing it better into line with critical (i.e. ideal or correct) morality. Social sexual morality is a key site, he says, where the law can work to effect positive change. This paper, a contribution to a festschrift…
Find out more »Choice Group Seminar by Cristian Larroulet Philippi (University of Cambridge): ‘Credences, values, and real-world policymaking: Assessing the Bayesian picture of scientific advice’
Abstract: The argument from inductive risk (AIR) is commonly understood to imply that scientific advice necessarily involves non-epistemic values. Richard Jeffrey (1956) famously articulated not only an internal critique to AIR, but also (though more tentatively than current proponents) an alternative picture of scientific advice, which we call “the Bayesian picture of scientific advice”. The Bayesian picture contends that binary cognitive…
Find out more »Lakatos Award Expert Workshop on Michela Massimi’s Perspectival Realism
Chair: Sabina Leonelli 14.00 – 14.50 Mike Boon: 'Reflections on the Role of Philosophers' Perspectives in Views of Realism - Perspectival Realism versus Anti-Realist Epistemological Constructivism' 14.55 – 15.45 Daian Bica: 'Humean Laws for Historical Scientific Communities versus Humean Laws for Cognitive Creatures' 15.45 – 16.10 Coffee Break 16.10 – 17.00 Catherine Kendig: 'A Perspectival Realist…
Find out more »Lakatos Award Lecture by Michela Massimi
Join us as Michela Massimi gives a public lecture on her Lakatos Award winning book, Perspectival Realism. Time: 6.00pm–7:15pm Place: Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House, LSE Campus Speaker: Michela Massimi Michela Massimi is a Professor of Philosophy of Science in the Department of Philosophy, at the University of Edinburgh, affiliated with the Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics. She works…
Find out more »Choice Group Seminar by Henrik Kugelberg (LSE): TBC
Abstract coming soon... Henrik Kugelberg is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). This event will take place in person on LSE’s campus. However, those unable to attend in person will have the option of taking part online. To join online just follow these instructions: Download Zoom Zoom link for this for this meeting: https://lse.zoom.us/j/6613924533 …
Find out more »Choice Group Seminar by Daniel Guillery (LSE): ‘Transport, movement, and equality: Private property and the justifiability of road systems’
Abstract: Roads (understood broadly as the public strips of land between parcels of private property that allow for the circulation of people and goods) are central to our ability to move from place to place. They are also highly dangerous and unequal places: the risks associated with travel through these spaces are substantial and usually very unequally distributed (as are the…
Find out more »Workshop: Episodic Memory – Uniquely Human?
We are excited to announce the upcoming workshop, Episodic Memory: Uniquely Human?, to be held on 21-22 May 2024, at LSE’s Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Sciences (CPNSS), and over Zoom. Background: Episodic memory is memory for personally experienced past events—events we experienced or witnessed first-hand. Episodic memory appears to be central to humans' mental lives, but its…
Find out more »Choice Group Seminar by Mike Otsuka (Rutgers University): TBC
Abstract coming soon... Mike Otsuka is a Professor at the Department of Philosophy at Rutgers University. This event will take place in person on LSE’s campus. However, those unable to attend in person will have the option of taking part online. To join online just follow these instructions: Download Zoom Zoom link for this for this meeting: https://lse.zoom.us/j/6613924533 Please note that these events are…
Find out more »AI, Animals, and Digital Minds Conference
Where: London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), LAK 2.06 When: Monday, June 3rd from 11-6pm After Effective Altruism Global: London, which many attendees are also attending What: This conference follows in the footsteps of the October 2023 Artificial Intelligence, Conscious Machines, and Animals: Broadening AI Ethics conference held at Princeton by Peter Singer, Tse Yip Fai, Leonie Bossert…
Find out more »Catherine Robb (Tilburg University): ‘The Metaphysics of Collective Talent’
Abstract: Talents often a play an important role in our lives, demarcating what we are good at, the subjects we choose to study at school, our future careers, and the activities that we enjoy. The nature and value of talents has been a topic of study in many fields, most notably, psychology, education, organisation management, and more recently, philosophy. However,…
Find out more »Choice Group Seminar by Darren Bradley (University of Leeds): TBC
Abstract coming soon... Darren Bradley is a Professor of Metaphysics and Epistemology at the University of Leeds. This event will take place in person on LSE’s campus. However, those unable to attend in person will have the option of taking part online. To join online just follow these instructions: Download Zoom Zoom link for this for this meeting: https://lse.zoom.us/j/6613924533 Please note that these events are…
Find out more »Choice Group Seminar by Anna Alexandrova (University of Cambridge): TBC
Abstract coming soon... Anna Alexandrova is a Professor in Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. This event will take place in person on LSE’s campus. However, those unable to attend in person will have the option of taking part online. To join online just follow these instructions: Download Zoom Zoom link for this for this meeting: https://lse.zoom.us/j/6613924533 Please note that these events are…
Find out more »6th Scientific Understanding and Representation (SURe) Workshop
Description: Representations play a central role in scientists’ understanding of the world. From mathematical models to diagrams, different representations in highly varied contexts yield diverse insights across the physical, biological, and social sciences. Despite the fact that how a phenomenon is represented has far-reaching ramifications for how it is understood, the literatures on scientific understanding and scientific representation are largely independent…
Find out more »Inaugural Lecture Jonathan Birch (LSE Philosophy): TBD
Join us for Jonathan Birch's inaugural lecture! More info coming soon...
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