The Times and The Sunday Times Good University Guide has ranked LSE as the top university in the UK and named the School as its ‘University of the Year 2025′. The Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method has been ranked as the best Philosophy Department in the country.
This is the first time the Good University Guide has […]
The Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method seeks to appoint an Assistant Professor who will contribute to the intellectual life of the Department and the School by conducting and publishing outstanding research, engaging in excellent teaching, taking on assigned administrative roles, and participating in the wider activities of both. Application deadline: 2 December 2024.
Candidates must have expertise […]
1. Why did you choose LSE and the programme?
I wanted to learn how moral philosophy can or should contribute to policymaking. The programme at LSE promised a good mix of two aspects that interested me: discussions of concrete policies and broader questions, e.g., what a good policymaking process should look like or which potentially problematic concepts policymaking relies upon. […]
CPNSS Research Fellow Fernand Gobet and Christopher Connolly (Sporting Bodymind Ltd) have published their new book ‘Transition Expertise and Identity: A Study of Individuals Who Succeeded Repeatedly in Life and Career Transitions’ with Cambridge University Press.
About the book:
This book is the product of a multi-year research project into how expert performers in sport, music, and business are able […]
We are pleased to announce that Alessandra Basso will be joining our Department in September 2024 as LSE Fellow.
Alessandra Basso earned her PhD in philosophy from the University of Helsinki before becoming a Newton International Fellow at the University of Cambridge’s Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Her primary research interests lie in […]
We are pleased to announce that we will host this year’s London regional chapter of The Ethics Cup which will take place on the 16 December 2024.
The Ethics Cup is an ethics tournament for young people (years 11 to 13), in which competing teams face discuss ethical issues of public concern. It is a collaborative […]
We’re pleased to announce Professor Roman Frigg as the new Head of Department.
After three years as our Head of Department, Professor Alex Voorhoeve will be stepping down this year to be replaced by Professor Roman Frigg.
Roman Frigg is Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method. He is the winner of the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel […]
LSE is pleased to announce that Professor Alex Voorhoeve has been appointed as the next Vice President and Pro-Vice Chancellor (Faculty Development), effective from 1 September 2025.
Alex Voorhoeve is a leading thinker on egalitarian conceptions of justice and their implications for public policy, especially in health. While his focus is on political philosophy, Alex’s work is thoroughly interdisciplinary; he […]
1. Why did you choose LSE and the programme?
In my senior year of university I remember very clearly approaching a professor after a lecture on Aristotle’s ethics. I was double majoring in philosophy and sociology, and told the professor I was stuck in deciding whether to apply to graduate programs in philosophy or political economy. His reply was that […]
LSE Philosophy Assistant Professor Lewis Ross has published his new article ‘Mock juries, real trials: how to solve (some) problems with jury science’ in the Journal of Law and Society.
Jury science is fraught with difficulty. Since legal and institutional hurdles render it all but impossible to study live criminal jury deliberation, researchers make use of various indirect methods […]
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