The video of our Philosophy Live event ‘Time’s Arrow’ is online!
The asymmetry between the past and the future is called the Arrow of Time. For example, the events of the past year have shaped all of us, but the future years are ours to shape. We all perceive the Arrow: we remember the start of the pandemic, but […]
Giacomo Giannini (LSE Philosophy) and Tom Schoonen (University of Amsterdam) published their new paper ‘Relational Troubles Structuralist Worries for an Epistemology of Powers-Based Modality’ in ‘The Philosophical Quarterly’.
Abstract Dispositionalism is the theory of modality that grounds all modal truths in powers: all metaphysically possible and necessary truths are to be explained by pointing to some actual power, or […]
LSE Philosophy Associate Professor Liam Kofi Bright and Assistant Professor Remco Heesen just published their new paper ‘To be Scientific is to be Communist’ in ‘Social Epistemology’ – A Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Policy.
Abstract: What differentiates scientific research from non-scientific inquiry? Philosophers addressing this question have typically been inspired by the exalted social place and intellectual achievements of […]
The Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science (CPNSS) seeks to recruit a Post-Doctoral Research Officer. This is a fixed-term appointment for 2 years. The application deadline is 28 February 2023.
The post-doctoral Research Officer will work in Jonathan Parry’s ‘Not in My Name: The Ethics of Acting For Others’ (NOTINMYNAME) project, funded by the UKRI. The position is tenable […]
LSE Philosophy PhD student Lorenzo Sartori just published his new paper ‘Putting the ‘Experiment’ back into the ‘Thought Experiment’ in the journal Synthese – An International Journal for Epistemology, Methodology and Philosophy of Science.
About the paper: Philosophers have debated at length the epistemological status of scientific thought experiments. I contend that the literature on this topic still lacks a common conceptual […]
LSE Philosophy Assistant Professor Lewis Ross just published his new paper ‘The curious case of the jury-shaped hole: A plea for real jury research’ in The International Journal of Evidence & Proof
Abstract: Criminal juries make decisions of great importance. A key criticism of juries is that they are unreliable in a multitude of ways, from exhibiting racial or […]
LSE Philosophy PhD student Bele Wollesen and Lukas Beck (Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change, Germany) have published a review of José Luis Bermúdez’s ‘Frame It Again: New Tools for Rational Decision-Making’
The review has been published in the Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics (Volume 12, Issue 2). Link to the […]
LSE Philosophy opened its application process for the 2023 PhD programme starting in September. Applications close 13 January 2023.
The Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method is a world-leading centre for research in philosophy, especially in the areas of rational choice theory and formal epistemology; philosophy of science; and moral and political philosophy.
We’re pleased to announce this year’s MSc prize winners – Congratulations to all of them!
The 2022 prize winners are:
The Faculty of Public Health has released a collection of essays reflecting on the paternalism debate in public health practice and policy.
The report was compiled by LSE Philosophy Assistant Professor Jonathan Parry, Jessica Begon (Durham University) and Farhang Tahzib (UK Faculty of Public Health). The collection contains an essay by Parry and Begon on ‘Paternalism and Public Health: Mapping […]
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