The Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method is searching for a Graduate Programmes Manager. Application deadline: 9 August 2024.
The Department of Philosophy, Logic, and Scientific Method at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) is seeking to appoint a full-time Graduate Programmes Manager. This role offers an exciting opportunity to make a significant contribution to […]
Starting September 2024, Lewis Ross will be the new Director of the Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science (CPNSS).
Lewis Ross will take over from Bryan Roberts, who has been the Centre Director since 2020. We thank Bryan Roberts for his tremendous work in CPNSS. He has been a driving force to consolidate the standing and influence of CPNSS […]
The podcast of the LSE Festival panel on ‘Invertebrate minds: from spiders to octopuses’ is now online!
Human beings are part of a vast sentient world full of conscious creatures, and even those of us far away from centres of political power have immense influence over huge numbers of animal lives – influence which we can choose to exercise […]
Moral Progress used to be one of the core ideas and commitments of the Enlightenment. Then it became a controversial idea, but a new theory of moral progress is now gaining traction, argues LSE Philosophy PhD student Rafael Ruiz de Lira.
Moral progress was central to the Enlightenment project. Philosophers like Kant, Hegel, Marx, and Comte […]
Pallab Ghosh wrote an article for BBC InDepth on animal consciousness – including Jonathan Birch’s work.
The article titled ‘Are animals conscious? How new research is changing minds’ explores the the growing research into animal consciousness. The article highlights how consciousness is defined and which evidence researcher have found to back up their theory. You […]
We are happy to announce this year’s winner of the LSE Class Teacher Award 2024 for the LSE Philosophy Department.
Congratulations to Dominic Ryder!
Further, we would like to highlight the people that were ‘Highly Commended’ for the award: Bele Wollesen, Lea Bourguignon, Christabel Cane, Hanika Froneman, Veronika Luptakova, Paloma Morales, Amadeo Robiolio and Adam Wingardh
Congratulations to all! It’s a […]
The Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method is searching for an LSE Fellow in Philosophy. Application deadline: 4 July 2024.
The Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method is committed to doing excellent research and teaching in philosophy in a manner that is continuous with the social and natural sciences and is socially relevant. It is also committed […]
Research into the minds of other animals and particularly invertebrates raises questions about how we define and understand consciousness itself. LSE Philosophy PhD student Daria Zakharova discusses how creating an artistic interpretation of the mind of a spider can inspire new legislation and shed light on how we understand developments in new forms artificial of intelligence.
In the summer […]
We are pleased to welcome Suzanne Bloks to LSE Philosophy, who will join us in September 2024 as Post Doc (Research Officer).
Suzanne will work as research officer in the ‘Cohesion and Deliberative Decision-Making’ project of the Cohesive Capitalism programme, funded by the Open Society Foundation. She wrote her PhD thesis in Philosophy in the DFG-funded PPE graduate program ‘Collective Decision-Making’ at Hamburg University. […]
LSE Philosophy Assistant Professor Ali Boyle is one of the newly selected CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars.
This year, 10 emerging research leaders will join the CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars programme cohort 2024-2026, generously supported by the Azrieli Foundation. This ambitious next-generation initiative provides two years of unrestricted funding to talented researchers tackling important and pressing questions facing science and […]
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