Events

Lakatos Award Lectures

Thursday 05 May 2016 6.00pm to 7.30pm

Hosted by the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method

Old Theatre, Old Building,

Speakers

Professor Gordon Belot

Professor David Malament

Chair

Professor John Worrall

The Lakatos Award is given for an outstanding contribution to the philosophy of science.

This year’s Award winners, Gordon Belot and David Malament, will speak respectively on “Objectivity, Limited” and “On the Concept of “Rotation” in Relativity Theory”.

Gordon Belot is a Professor in the Philosophy Department at the University of Michigan.

David Malament is Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science at the University of California, Irvine.

John Worrall is a mainstay of The Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method and the School, and is this year celebrating his 50th year here.

The Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method (@LSEPhilosophy) at LSE was founded by Professor Sir Karl Popper in 1946, and remains internationally renowned for a type of philosophy that is both continuous with the sciences and socially relevant.

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