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LSE Class Teacher Award 2025

30 May 2025|

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! […]

One Oligarch, his Freedom, and Capitalism’s Shackles

27 May 2025|

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 […]

Get your tickets: LSE Festival 2025

19 May 2025|

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 […]

The Polymathics of AI Ethics

6 May 2025|

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 […]

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    Journal Health Economics, Policy and Law: Procedural Justice in Health Financing

Journal Health Economics, Policy and Law: Procedural Justice in Health Financing

1 May 2025|

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 […]

Open Position: Centre Manager (Impact and Administration)

30 April 2025|

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 […]

Pets and Power: Why it’s Wrong to Keep Pets

11 April 2025|

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. […]

Open Position: Teaching Delivery Officer

10 April 2025|

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 […]

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    Open Position: Research Officer in Animal Sentience (Animals and AI)

Open Position: Research Officer in Animal Sentience (Animals and AI)

9 April 2025|

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. […]

Ella Whiteley joins LSE Philosophy

31 March 2025|

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 […]