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Open Position: Assistant Professor in Philosophy

9 September 2024|

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 […]

New Book: ‘Transition Expertise and Identity’

5 September 2024|

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 […]

New LSE Fellow: Welcome Alessandra Basso

2 September 2024|

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 […]

Ethics Cup 2024/2025

2 September 2024|

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 […]

Roman Frigg becomes new Head of the Department

2 September 2024|

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 […]

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    LSE Philosophy Professor Alex Voorhoeve has been appointed as Vice President and Pro-Vice Chancellor

LSE Philosophy Professor Alex Voorhoeve has been appointed as Vice President and Pro-Vice Chancellor

2 September 2024|

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 […]

New article by Lewis Ross

21 August 2024|

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 […]

LSE Philosophy Prizes 2024

19 August 2024|

We are pleased to announce the winners of Popper Prize and The John Watkins Memorial Prize 2024.

Lea Bourguignon has been awarded the Watkins Prize for her paper “On the Possibility of Act Contractualism” (Australasian Journal of Philosophy).

Lorenzo Sartori has been awarded the Popper Memorial Prize for his paper “Model Organisms […]

Carl Hoefer wins the 2024 Lakatos Award!

12 August 2024|

The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) is pleased to announce the winner of the 2024 Lakatos Award, which goes to Carl Hoefer for his book ‘Chance in the World: A Humean Guide to Objective Chance’ (Oxford University Press, 2019).

The Lakatos Award was made possible by a generous endowment from the Latsis Foundation, in memory of […]

Lakatos Award 2025: Call for nominations!

6 August 2024|

Call for nominations for the 2025 Lakatos Award: Deadline: 1 September 2024.

For the 2025 Award, books published in English with an imprint from 2019 to 2024, inclusive, are eligible. The award is given for a monograph in the philosophy of science broadly construed, either single authored or co-authored, published in English. Anthologies and edited collections are not eligible. Any person of recognised standing within […]