We are pleased to announce the call for nominations for the 2026 Lakatos Award: Deadline: 15 September 2025.
The 2026 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 2020 to 2025, inclusive. Anthologies and edited collections are not eligible. Any person of recognised standing […]
The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) is pleased to announce the 2025 Lakatos Award winner Mazviita Chirimuuta, who receives the award for her book “The Brain Abstracted: Simplification in the History and Philosophy of Neuroscience”(MIT Press, 2024). Congratulations!
The Lakatos Award was made possible by a generous endowment from the Latsis Foundation, in memory of the […]
LSE Philosophy Professor Jason Alexander has written a new blog article for the LSE British Politics and Policy blog. In his blog post “What future for truth?” he is sharing his thoughts on the post-truth era.
It’s become a cliché that we live in a post-truth era in which emotions triumph over facts. But J. McKenzie Alexander argues that […]
LSE Philosophy graduate Hamza King interviewed LSE Philosophy Associate Professor Jonathan Parry about his book ‘The Ethics of Humanitarian Intervention: An Introduction’ for his Phlexible Philosophy Podcast.
The Rwandan Genocide was one of the most horrific events of the twentieth century. After decades of unrest between Rwanda’s two biggest tribes, the Tutsi’s and the Hutu’s, civil war finally broke […]
We are pleased to announce that LSE Philosophy has been ranked number 1 in the Complete University Guide 2026 for the second year in a row.
The Complete University Guide which includes 130 institutions has released its 2026 league tables that rank the best universities in the UK, overall and in 74 subject areas. LSE Philosophy has been ranked […]
We are pleased to announce that there is a new chinese translation of Alex Voorhoeve’s ‘Conversations on Ethics’ available online.
A new Chinese translation of Professor Alex Voorhoeve’s collection of interviews with leading philosophers and social scientists, Conversations on Ethics, has just been published. The translation was prepared by LSE Philosophy PhD student Kangyu Wang and LSE Philosophy alumnus […]
LSE Philosophy Assistant Professor Lewis Ross wrote about the Independent Sentencing Review’s reforms for the LSE British Politics and Policy blog.
The Government’s new Independent Sentencing Review aims to reform the way the justice system punishes offenders by moving away from high sentences and towards punishment in the community. Lewis Ross argues that such reforms are in the right […]
We are happy to announce this year’s winner of the LSE Class Teacher Award 2025 for the LSE Philosophy Department.
Congratulations to Lea Bourguignon, Adam Wingardh and Hanika Froneman!
Further, we would like to highlight the people that were ‘Highly Commended’ for the award: Eva Read, Christabel Cane, Felix Westeren, Korbinian Friedl, Daria Zakharova and Kirstine La Cour.
Congratulations to all! […]
Have you ever wondered why doing ‘what you ought’ has to be so hard? LSE Professor Lea Ypi from the Department of Government offered a promising answer during her talk ‘How capitalism undermines freedom’ organised by LSE’s Cohesive Capitalism programme. According to Professor Ypi, it is capitalism itself that shackles us by imposing ‘structural’ constraints on […]
What are the possible worlds to come? Join us to explore the threats and opportunities of the near and distant future, and what a better world could look like. The LSE Festival 2025 will take place from Monday 16 to Saturday 21 June 2025.
We are happy to announce that LSE Philosophy will host a panel during the upcoming […]
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