LSE Philosophy student Hamza King started his own Podcast!
You can find Hamza’s podcast on his YouTube Channel ‘Phlexible Philosophy’ – ‘a space between armchair and academic philosophy.’
In the first episode ‘The Ethics of Space Exploration’, Hamza sits down with Tony Milligan to discuss some of the ethical problems posed by space exploration. Tony is a Senior Researcher […]
We are pleased to announce that Lukas Beck will be joining our Department in September 2023 as LSE Fellow.
Lukas Beck is a Philosopher of Science. He is part of the working group on Scientific Assessments, Ethics and Public Policy at the MCC and a member of the Rivet Project, where he currently focuses on developing […]
Call for nominations for the 2024 Lakatos Award: Deadline: 1 September 2023.
The 2024 award will be for a monograph in the philosophy of science broadly construed, either single authored or co-authored, published in English with an imprint from 2018 to 2023, inclusive. Anthologies and edited collections are not eligible. Any person of recognised standing within the philosophy of science or […]
The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) is pleased to announce the winner of the 2023 Lakatos Award, which goes to Michela Massimi for her book ‘Perspectival Realism’ (Oxford University Press, 2022).
The Lakatos Award was made possible by a generous endowment from the Latsis Foundation, in memory of the former LSE professor Imre Lakatos. It is […]
Develop the tools and skills to practise ethical reasoning and manage the diverse impacts of AI on individuals and society – with content by Kate Vredenburgh and Thomas Ferretti, lead by Paola Romero.
As artificial intelligence (AI) adoption becomes more commonplace, so do questions of the ethics surrounding the design and implementation of it. In order to critically assess […]
LSE Philosophy Associate Professor Jonathan Birch has reviewed Peter Singer’s latest book ‘Animal Liberation Now’. The review has now been published in Nature.
Peter Singer’s book ‘Animal Liberation’ was first published 1975. The book delivers reports on animal suffering caused by intensive-farming systems. Almost 50 years later, Singer wrote an updated edition called ‘Animal Liberation Now’ in which he […]
How does change affect people? How do people effect change? Those were the big questions of the LSE Festival 2023. The video of the panel ‘How is AI Changing the World?’ including Thomas Ferretti (former LSE Philosophy Fellow) is now available online!
The sudden rise of ChatGPT has confirmed that artificial intelligence is no longer a technology of the […]
‘A Woman First and a Philosopher Second’: Relative Attentional Surplus on the Wrong Property – The new paper by LSE Philosophy Fellow Ella Whiteley has now been published in the journal Ethics.
About the paper: One theme in complaints from those with marginalized social identities is that they are seen primarily in terms of that identity. Some Black artists, […]
CPNSS researchers Andrew Crump and Jonathan Birch and colleagues have now published their new article ‘Is it time for insect researchers to consider their subjects’ welfare?’ in PLOS Biology.
About the article: Insect researchers are rarely asked to think about their subjects’ welfare. However, most people agree that humans should, where feasible, at least consider the welfare of animals […]
LSE Philosophy is searching for an LSE Fellow in Philosophy. Application deadline: 12 June 2023.
This is a fixed term appointment for 24 months commencing from September 2023.
Candidates should have
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