The recording of the ‘Philosophy Live’ panel ‘Living in the past: exploring memory in humans, animals, and artificial agents’ is now online on YouTube.
Why live in the past? Humans reminisce and remember past events, even ‘replaying’ them in the mind’s eye. But why not just live in the moment? What’s the point in devoting mental resources to storing […]
LSE Philosophy Visiting Professor Christian List has published his new paper ‘Dynamically rational judgment aggregation’ in Springer.
Abstract: Judgment-aggregation theory has always focused on the attainment of rational collective judgments. But so far, rationality has been understood in static terms: as coherence of judgments at a given time, defined as consistency, completeness, and/or deductive closure. This paper asks whether […]
LSE Philosophy Assistant Professor Remco Heesen and colleagues have now published their new paper ‘Science–policy research collaborations need philosophers’ in Nature Human Behaviour.
The project on “The Epistemology of Evidence-Based Policy: How Philosophy can facilitate the Science-Policy interface” was co-led by Anne Schwenkenbecher (Murdoch University), Remco Heesen (London School of Economics and Political Science) and Chad Hewitt (Murdoch University, […]
LSE Philosophy PhD student Ze’ev Goldschmidt has published his new paper ‘Foundations for Knowledge-Based Decision Theories’ in the Australasian Journal of Philosophy.
Abstract: Several philosophers have proposed Knowledge-Based Decision Theories (KDTs)—theories that require agents to maximize expected utility as yielded by utility and probability functions that depend on the agent’s knowledge. Proponents of KDTs argue that such theories are […]
The recording of the Lakatos Award Lecture by Michela Massimi is now available on YouTube.
Michela Massimi is a Professor of Philosophy of Science in the Department of Philosophy, at the University of Edinburgh, affiliated with the Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics. She works in the area of history and philosophy of science with a focus on the physical […]
LSE Philosophy Assistant Professor Lewis Ross has published his new book ‘The Philosophy of Legal Proof’ as part of the series ‘Elements in Philosophy of Law’ by Cambridge University Press.
Criminal courts make decisions that can remove the liberty and even life of those accused. Civil trials can cause the bankruptcy of companies employing thousands of people, asylum seekers […]
Jonathan Parry (LSE Philosophy) and Professor Helen Frowe (Stockholm University) have submitted written evidence on ‘Intimate Image Abuse’ as Non-contact sexual offences to the Parliament Committee.
About the inquiry: The recent rapes and murders of both Sarah Everard and Libby Squire by men who had histories of committing acts of incident exposure and/or voyeurism has prompted calls for non-contact […]
LSE Philosophy hosted the regional Ethics Cup competition! Around 120 secondary school pupils battled it out to qualify for the final in St Andrews taking place on 23 May.
LSE Philosophy was happy to host this year’s Ethics Cup, which took place on 23 February 2024. The Ethics Cup is a tournament in which teams of school students consider […]
The recording of the LSE public lecture on ‘The Politics and Philosophy of AI’ with LSE Philosopher Kate Vredenburgh is now online on the LSE YouTube channel.
As artificial intelligence (AI) moves beyond the realm of science fiction, it is already having a profound impact on our economies, societies and politics. To make sense of the transformative power and […]
The recording of Anna Mahtani’s Inaugural Lecture titled ‘From Probabilities to Decisions’ is now online on the LSE YouTube channel.
The idea of probabilities – and in particular ‘degrees of belief’ or ‘credences’ – is prevalent. It is used by scientists, economists and political theorists, and it plays a central role in policy choice: in deciding whether to carry […]
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