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10:00 am
Virtual Graduate Open Event: MSc Philosophy of Science 2024
The LSE Philosophy Department will be holding several live online events for prospective master's students. The session for the MSc Philosophy of Science will take place 📅 Monday 2 December 2024, 10:00am-11:00am (GMT) Register here to attend the session. There will also be sessions for each of our programmes: 📅 Thursday 21 November 2024: MSc Philosophy of Economics and the Social Sciences 📅 […]
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Nadia Blackshaw (LSE): ‘Everett+: expanding the Everettian Picture’
There will be tea starting 2:30pm. Abstract: It is often claimed that Everettian Quantum Mechanics has the advantage of taking the physics seriously as is. By not adding to standard quantum theory, the argument for many worlds is thought to be more palatable and the interpretation sticks closer to actual science. But do Everettians truly not add anything? And is […]
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The Open Society as an enemy: populism, Popper and pessimism post-1989
THIS EVENT IS PART OF THE LSE PUBLIC LECTURE SERIES. Across the world, populist agendas on both the left and right threaten to undermine fundamental principles that underpin liberal democracies, so that what were previously seen as virtues of the ‘Open Society’ are now, by many people, seen as vices, dangers, or threats. As global citizens, we are implicated […]
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