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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
A previous post proposed a framework for fair—that is, open and inclusive—ways of making decisions on how to finance Universal Health Coverage (UHC). However, some critics question the value of procedural fairness. In this post, which draws on a co-authored response to such critics, Alex Voorhoeve examines its worth.
Four potential benefits
Ensuring Universal Health Coverage (UHC)—that everyone around the world has access to an adequate package of needed health services of sufficient quality at bearable cost—is one of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals and is an aim of health policy in many countries. But UHC is costly, and consequently, countries face difficult decisions on how to fund it. […]
We are pleased to share the last article in our Taylor Swift and Philosophy blog series. This week’s article was written by Georgie Mills, co-editor of ‘Taylor Swift and Philosophy: Essays from the Tortured Philosophers Department’ and panellist at the upcoming ‘Taylor Swift and philosophy’ public lecture at LSE.
As ever, when […]
We have reached part three of our Taylor Swift blog series. Our series highlights several chapters of the recently published book ‘Taylor Swift and Philosophy: Essays from the Tortured Philosophers Department’ by Catherine M. Robb and Georgie Mills and builds up to our anticipated ‘Taylor Swift and philosophy’ public lecture at […]
We are pleased to share the second article in our Taylor Swift blog series. Our series highlights several chapters of the recently published book ‘Taylor Swift and Philosophy: Essays from the Tortured Philosophers Department’ by Catherine M. Robb and Georgie Mills and builds up to our anticipated ‘Taylor Swift and philosophy’ […]
We are pleased to announce the first part of a very special blog series. In the next weeks, we will publish four articles on Taylor Swift and philosophy, each containing an excerpt from the recently published book ‘Taylor Swift and Philosophy: Essays from the Tortured Philosophers Department’ by Catherine M. Robb and Georgie Mills. […]
Decision-makers are sensitive to uncertainty. Prudential regulation in finance is a good example. In general, the more uncertain a financial institution is about its risk exposures, the more capital it needs to hold. But what if a financial institution is uncertain about how uncertain it is about its risks? LSE Philosophy PhD student Kangyu Wang argues that the […]
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