As AI increasingly makes moral judgments across diverse cultures, Western philosophical foundations alone may not suffice. However, ancient Chinese traditions offer valuable alternative frameworks for AI ethics. The “lost wallet problem” reveals how Kant, Mengzi, and Daoist perspectives approach the same moral dilemma with fundamentally different reasoning. In our latest LSE Philosophy blog article, CPNSS visitor Percy Venegas […]
The World Bank Report Open and Inclusive: Fair Processes for Financing Universal Health Coverage, co-authored by LSE Philosophy Professor Alex Voorhoeve, is the topic of a symposium in the latest issue of Journal Health, Economics, Policy and Law.
Leading academics and health policy experts from the World Health Organisation and the International Budget Partnership criticise and extend the report’s […]
The Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience is hiring a Centre Manager (Impact and Administration) who is strongly committed to our mission and keen to support and manage both the day-to-day running of the Centre and its progress towards its impact goals. Application deadline: 6 May 2025.
The Centre Manager (Impact and Administration) will be responsible for the daily […]
Many of us love living with pets. We share our homes, beds, food, and highs and lows with them. Indeed, we are so attached to our animal companions that pet cloning is becoming big business. Of course, not all pets live in loving environments, and we’ve all heard horror stories of abuse or neglect. […]
The LSE Philosophy Department is hiring a Teaching Delivery Officer to support the efficient administration of teaching and learning activities. Application deadline: 6 May 2025.
The Teaching Delivery Officer will be responsible for key aspects of teaching administration, including timetabling, seminar allocations, coursework submissions, and student queries. They will also play a vital role in delivering departmental teaching events […]
The Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience is hiring a Research Officer in Animal Sentience (Animals and AI). Application deadline: 6 May 2025.
The Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience at LSE Philosophy aims to support the scientific study of animal sentience and to use the science to design better policies, laws and ways of caring for other animals. […]
We are pleased to announce that Ella Whiteley will join the LSE Philosophy Department as Assistant Professor.
Ella Whiteley’s primary research interests lie in ethics and political philosophy. Ella specialises in the normative dimensions of salience and attention, exploring how the structuring of minds, language, and the social world can cause and constitute bias and oppression. Ella also engages […]
LSE Philosophy Associate Professor Kieran Oberman wrote an article for LSE’s Research for the World Magazine. In the article, Oberman is explaining why his new paper, Enough Spurious Distinctions: refugees are just people in need, and argues for a rethink of global refugee policy, including a new approach to what a refugee is.
The LSE Philosophy Department is hiring a Digital Communications Graduate Intern. This is a full time, fixed term appointment for 3 months. Application deadline: 6 April 2025.
This exciting and unique role will support the migration of our departmental website from WordPress to Contensis, enhancing the student experience by making information more accessible and user-friendly. The project also includes […]
LSE Philosophy graduate Hamza King interviewed LSE Philosophy Professor J. McKenzie Alexander about his new book ‘The Open Society as an Enemy’ for his Phlexible Philosophy Podcast.
Karl Popper was one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. Widely considered to be the father of modern science, Popper introduced the principle of falsificationism which states that for […]
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