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Prof J. McKenzie Alexander
Professor
Work Phone: +44 (0)20 7955 6496 Website: jmckalex.org

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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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Dr Jonathan Birch
Assistant Professor
Work Phone: +44 (0)20 7107 7334 Website: personal.lse.ac.uk/birchj1/

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Office: LAK 2.01

Philosophy of science. Philosophy of biology. Philosophy of cognitive science.

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Prof Luc Bovens
Professor
Work Phone: +44 (0)20 7955 6822 Website: bovens.org/

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Philosophy and Public Policy. Moral and Political Theory. Rationality and Formal Epistemology.

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Prof Richard Bradley
Professor
Work Phone: +44 (0)20 7955 7330 Website: personal.lse.ac.uk/bradleyr

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Office: LAK 2.03

Decision Theory. Hypothetical reasoning. Foundations of economic and social theory.

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Dr Campbell Brown
Assistant Professor
Work Phone: +44 (0)20 7955 6004

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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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Dr Susanne Burri
Assistant Professor
Work Phone: +44 (0)20 7955 6136 Website: susanneburri.ch

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Office: LAK 3.04

Normative ethics, political philosophy, philosophy of economics.

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Prof Roman Frigg
Professor, CPNSS Director
Work Phone: +44 (0)20 7955 7182 Website: romanfrigg.org

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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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Prof Christian List
Professor, Political Science & Philosophy
Work Phone: +44 (0)20 7955 6785 Website: personal.lse.ac.uk/list

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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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Dr Anna Mahtani
Assistant Professor
Work Phone: +44 (0)20 7107 5150

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Office: LAK 2.02

Vagueness. Philosophy of Probability. Formal Epistemology.

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Prof Michael Otsuka
Professor
Work Phone: +44 (0)20 7955 7333 Website: personal.lse.ac.uk/OTSUKAM

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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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Prof Miklós Rédei
Professor, Head of Department
Work Phone: +44 (0)20 7955 6323 Website: personal.lse.ac.uk/redeim

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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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Dr Bryan W. Roberts
Assistant Professor
Work Phone: +44 (0)20 7107 5484 Website: personal.lse.ac.uk/ROBERT49

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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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Johanna Thoma
Assistant Professor
Website: johannathoma.com

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Office: LAK 4.02

Practical Rationality. Decision and Game Theory. Philosophy of Economics. Moral Philosophy.

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Dr Alex Voorhoeve
Associate Professor
Work Phone: +44 (0)20 7955 6597 Website: personal.lse.ac.uk/voorhoev

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Office: LAK 4.01

Political Philosophy. Rational and Social Choice Theory. Moral Philosophy. Philosophy of Economics.

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Prof John Worrall
Professor
Work Phone: +44 (0)20 7955 7335

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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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Extended Faculty

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Dr Andrew Buskell
LSE Fellow

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Office: LAK 2.01

Philosophy of Science. Philosophy of the Cognitive, Biological, and Social Sciences.

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Dr Peter Dennis
LSE Fellow

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Office: LAK 4.05

Epistemology. Rationality. Philosophy and Public Policy.

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Dr Heather Dyke
LSE Fellow

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Office: LAK 3.01

Metaphysics. Philosophy of Time. Ethics.

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Prof David Makinson
Professor

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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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Prof Wlodek Rabinowicz
Centennial Professor
Work Phone: +44 (0)20 7852 3541

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Office: LAK 4.05

Moral philosophy. Value theory. Decision theory. Philosophical logic.

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Dr Ioannis Votsis
LSE Fellow
Website: votsis.org

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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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