The Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience is hiring a Research Officer in Animal Sentience (Animals and AI). Application deadline: 6 May 2025.
The Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience at LSE Philosophy aims to support the scientific study of animal sentience and to use the science to design better policies, laws and ways of caring for other animals. […]
We are pleased to announce that Ella Whiteley will join the LSE Philosophy Department as Assistant Professor.
Ella Whiteley’s primary research interests lie in ethics and political philosophy. Ella specialises in the normative dimensions of salience and attention, exploring how the structuring of minds, language, and the social world can cause and constitute bias and oppression. Ella also engages […]
LSE Philosophy Associate Professor Kieran Oberman wrote an article for LSE’s Research for the World Magazine. In the article, Oberman is explaining why his new paper, Enough Spurious Distinctions: refugees are just people in need, and argues for a rethink of global refugee policy, including a new approach to what a refugee is.
The LSE Philosophy Department is hiring a Digital Communications Graduate Intern. This is a full time, fixed term appointment for 3 months. Application deadline: 6 April 2025.
This exciting and unique role will support the migration of our departmental website from WordPress to Contensis, enhancing the student experience by making information more accessible and user-friendly. The project also includes […]
LSE Philosophy graduate Hamza King interviewed LSE Philosophy Professor J. McKenzie Alexander about his new book ‘The Open Society as an Enemy’ for his Phlexible Philosophy Podcast.
Karl Popper was one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. Widely considered to be the father of modern science, Popper introduced the principle of falsificationism which states that for […]
LSE is launching its new research centre in autumn 2025. The Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience is made possible by the Jeremy Coller Foundation. LSE Philosophy Professor Jonathan Birch will be the inaugural Director of the new centre.
You can find the official announcement on the LSE website.
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LSE Philosophy has been ranked 2nd best in the world in the 2025 QS World University Rankings by Subject, the highest ranking of any UK-based philosophy department.
We’re very pleased to announce that LSE Philosophy has been placed 2nd for the second year in a row. Link to the full ranking.
The QS World University Rankings […]
Could AI develop true intelligence without sentience? LSE Philosophy Professor Jonathan Birch explores the boundaries of artificial and evolved minds in a recent Big Think article.
Scientists love a good classification system. It’s important to give things labels and it’s fun to step back and look at your beautiful taxonomic tables. Given that Aristotle is considered one of the […]
LSE Philosophy Assistant Professor Lewis Ross has published his new paper on ‘Reintegrative Retributivism’ in the Modern Law Review.
Abstract: Pessimistic empirical evidence about the reformatory and deterrent effects of punitive treatment poses a challenge for all justificatory theories of punishment. Yet, the dominant progressive view remains that punishment is required for the most serious crimes. This paper outlines […]
LSE PhD student Mazlum Özkan wrote a review of J. McKenzie Alexander‘s new book ‘The Open Society as an Enemy’ for the LSE book review blog.
J. McKenzie Alexander‘s The Open Society as an Enemy revisits Karl Popper’s foundational work on the concept of the “open society” in relation to contemporary threats to democratic values, from the rise of […]
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