Many researchers now agree that animal consciousness is more common than once believed. One of the leading animal sentience researchers is LSE Philosophy Professor Jonathan Birch. His research is often met with scepticism from inside and outside the Philosophy world. However, he sometimes is a reasonable sceptic himself. In our latest blog post, Jonathan Birch gives insights into his inner […]
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 […]
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 […]
How individuals and groups are named and designated is inextricably linked to the expected outcomes of policy decisions aimed at influencing them. Discussing her recent work on these ‘objects of credence’, LSE Philosophy Professor Anna Mahtani suggests that an attentiveness to the plurality of possible designators can help policymakers be more aware of the underlying choices inherent to […]
The head of the British army, General Sir Patrick Sanders, recently raised concerns over poor recruitment in the military. But as Jonathan Parry from LSE Philosophy and Christina Easton from Warwick University argue, there are deeper, moral concerns with military recruitment. Campaigning at schools, glamourising the work of the army in advertising, and drawing largely from a pool […]
Many people have a period of dementia before they die. Indeed, dementia has been identified as the leading cause of death in the UK. The diseases that cause dementia are often described as cruel: typically they slowly erode a person’s memories, knowledge, understanding, and eventually the ability to talk, walk and swallow. LSE Philosophy […]
Mathematical knowledge has puzzled philosophers for millennia. The LSE’s own Imre Lakatos coined the term “Euclidean Programme” for the historically dominant way of thinking about this phenomenon. In a new volume published in the Elements in the Philosophy of Mathematics series by Cambridge University Press, Alexander Paseau (Oxford) and Wesley Wrigley (LSE) trace the history of the Euclidean […]
Philosopher Richard Pettigrew (University of Bristol) shares his personal thoughts on changing selves and reflects on our latest Philosophy Live event ‘Dementia and decision-making: How should we make decisions with – or on behalf of – those with dementia?’
Ten years ago, I was trying to decide whether or not to adopt a child and become a parent. I […]
We are happy to share a very special blog post by Ariana Razavi, winner of our LSE Philosophy Peace Prize 2023.
Introduction by Professor Jonathan Birch: It’s a pleasure to introduce winner of the LSE Philosophy Peace Prize, Ariana Razavi. The aim of the competition was to encourage students to reflect, in the form of a blog post, on […]
One of the key arguments in favour of an elected second chamber is that it would make the UK’s political system more democratic overall. However, an examination of the principles of representative democracy suggests that this is neither a necessary nor desirable reform for the House of Lords to fulfil its purpose, argues LSE Philosophy Fellow Adam Lovett.
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