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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 2.01
Philosophy of science. Philosophy of biology. Philosophy of cognitive science.
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Philosophy and Public Policy. Moral and Political Theory. Rationality and Formal Epistemology.
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Office: LAK 2.03
Decision Theory. Hypothetical reasoning. Foundations of economic and social theory.
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Office: LAK 4.04
Moral and political philosophy, especially formal approaches to these. Rational and social choice theory.
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Office: LAK 3.04
Normative ethics, political philosophy, philosophy of economics.
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Office: LAK 2.01
Philosophy of Science. Philosophy of the Cognitive, Biological, and Social Sciences.
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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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Office: LAK 4.05
Epistemology. Rationality. Philosophy and Public Policy.
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Office: LAK 3.01
Metaphysics. Philosophy of Time. Ethics.
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Office: LAK 1.01
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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Philosophy of Science, logic and foundations of probability.
Colin Howson is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto.
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Office: LAK 2.04
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.
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Office: LAK 2.02
Vagueness. Philosophy of Probability. Formal Epistemology.
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Logic and its relations with other disciplines, particularly philosophy and computer science. Logic of belief change. Nonmonotonic reasoning. Input/output logics. Logic of normative systems. Logical friendliness. Qualitative versus quantitative analyses of uncertain reasoning. Relevance criteria for belief change operations.
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Office: LAK 4.06
Political philosophy. Ethical theory. Rational choice and bargaining theory.
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Office: LAK 3.03
Prioritarianism, egalitarianism, and the separateness of persons. The morality of imposing risks, harming, and saving from harm. Left-libertarianism. Personal identity. Free will and moral responsibility.
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Office: LAK 4.05
Moral philosophy. Value theory. Decision theory. Philosophical logic.
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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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Modern theoretical physics.
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Office: LAK 5.03
Philosophy and foundations of physics. Philosophy of science. Philosophy of time. History of physics. Foundations of economics.
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Office: LAK 5.02
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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Office: LAK 4.02
Practical Rationality. Decision and Game Theory. Philosophy of Economics. Moral Philosophy.
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Office: LAK 4.01
Political Philosophy. Rational and Social Choice Theory. Moral Philosophy. Philosophy of Economics.
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Office: LAK 3.01
Philosophy of science. Scientific realism debate. Theory change in science. Theory-ladenness of perception and observation. Confirmation theory. Unification. Ad hoc-ness.
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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 the LSE.
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Office: LAK 3.02
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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