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A.J. Simmons (University of Virginia): “States and their Territories “
Auguste Comte memorial lectures States and their Territories Speaker: Prof. A.J. Simmons (University of Virginia) Monday March 11 and Tuesday March 12 from 6:30-8:00 pm at LSE;Tower One; TW1; G.01 Chair: Gabriel Wollner (LSE) Modern states claim a wide variety of rights of control over particular geographical territories. These claims; however; are regularly disputed; often leading to violence. This fact…
Find out more »Professor Jeff McMahan (Oxford): Auguste Comte Memorial Lecture
Liability, Proportionality and the Number of Aggressors A podcast of this event is available here. Auguste Comte Memorial Lecture Date: Wednesday 11 March 2015 Time: 6.30-8pm Venue: Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House Speaker: Professor Jeff McMahan Chair: Professor Michael Otsuka The annual Auguste Comte Memorial Lecture will be delivered by a leading scholar in social and political philosophy. Jeff McMahan…
Find out more »The Problem of the Political (CANCELLED)
Is the state’s limiting of our personal freedoms a problem? If so, Kolodny argues, this problem has more to do with equality than with freedom. #LSEComte
Find out more »Donald MacKenzie (Edinburgh): “A Material Sociology of Markets: the Case of ‘Futures Lag’ in High-Frequency Trading” (Auguste Comte Memorial Lecture)
It is very tempting to think of today’s financial system as abstract and virtual, to imagine that globalisation has led to a “flat world” and “the end of geography”, and assume that both time and space have shrunk. MacKenzie’s talk will cast doubt on those assumptions by focusing on the physicality of finance.
Find out more »Daniel M. Hausman (Madison): “Is social science possible?” (Auguste Comte Memorial Lecture)
Using economics as an example, this lecture addresses a perennial philosophical question that also occupied Auguste Comte: Can inquiries into social phenomena be sciences?
Find out more »Comte Lecture by Joseph Heath (University of Toronto): Recent Advances in the Understanding of Human Sociality
Date: Thursday, 1 February 2024 Time: 6.30pm - 8.00pm Venue: Auditorium, Centre Building (CBG), LSE Campus Link to the central LSE event page including link to the live stream. Abstract: Although each of us derives enormous benefit from the vast network of cooperative social relations that exists among human beings, there is still no unified scientific theory that…
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