To be sentient is to have positive or negative experiences, such as experiences of pain, pleasure, comfort, warmth, hunger, anxiety or joy. Humans are sentient, but are we alone?
This is one of the many questions the expert panel discussed during the LSE Festival 2022. Title of the talk: “Do Octopuses Have Feelings? The Question of Animal Sentience”
Speakers:
Jonathan Birch, […]
The Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method has selected three new LSE Fellows to start in September 2022.
About the new Fellows:
Dr. Wesley Wrigley will be joining from the University of Oxford to take up a one-year LSE Fellowship to support teaching in Logic and the Philosophy of Science.
Dr. Thomas Ferretti, who has already been teaching […]
LSE Philosophy has been ranked 2nd in the country in The Complete University Guide 2023.
The Complete University Guide provides a comprehensive and definitive guide to all matters related to higher education. The guide ranks the country’s top universities in 74 individual subject areas and is published annually.
We are pleased to announce that we were able to improve our ranking […]
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