We’re excited to welcome you to the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method! We will start off your LSE experience with the Welcome Week that will take place starting Monday, 18 September 2023. During this week, you’ll get the chance to meet the faculty members, our service staff and get to know one another. It’s a great […]
LSE Philosophy now offers the opportunity of studying one year abroad at either Sciences Po Paris School of International Affairs or Berkeley, University of California, during our PPE Degree.
The year abroad is offered to PPE students after Year 2. The year abroad is optional and will be counted towards the programme, meaning that students taking this option will […]
Rich Healey is joining the Centre for Philosophy of Natural & Social Science (CPNSS) as a postdoctoral researcher on the project ‘Not in my Name’ lead by Jonathan Parry.
Healey will be working on questions concerning the moral foundations of normative powers and the normative constraints that apply to the powers of consent […]
LSE Philosophers eva read and Jonathan Birch have published their new paper ‘Animal sentience and the Capabilities Approach to justice’ in Springer.
In their new paper eva read and Jonathan Birch review Martha Nussbaum’s ‘Justice for animals: our collective responsibility’. In her book, the author calls upon humanity to secure for all sentient beings the […]
Thomas Ferretti, former LSE Philosophy Fellow, considers ethical and political issues raised by the ongoing revolution in AI and machine learning.
In his blog post ‘The Ethics and Politics of Artificial Intelligence’ Thomas Ferretti discusses new advances in AI and which ethical implications it has on daily life and policy making. Link to the article.
We are pleased to announce that Lorenzo Sartori has been awarded The John Watkins Memorial Prize 2023 – Congratulations!
LSE Philosophy PhD Student Lorenzo Sartori has been awarded the Prize in recognition of his outstanding paper ‘Putting the “Experiment” back into the “Thought Experiment”’, which has been published in the journal Synthese.
The John Watkins Memorial Prize
The John […]
LSE Philosopher Jonathan Birch gave an interview with Undark and discussed the ethical implication of sentient AI.
As AI technology leaps forward, ethical questions sparked by human-AI interactions have taken on new urgency. In the latest interview with Jonathan Birch, Associate Professor at LSE Philosophy and expert on animal sentience, argues that the potential for conscious AI will raise […]
The World Bank has published a new policy report on the topic of fair processing of universal health care coverage. Alex Voorhoeve, Head of Department at LSE Philosophy, is one of the authors.
The new policy report is titled ‘Open and Inclusive: Fair Processes for Financing Universal Health Coverage’ and has been published by the World Bank, in collaboration […]
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 […]
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