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Daniel Dennett Book Launch “Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking”
In this lecture, one of the world's most original thinkers will show how he designs, uses and dismantles the thinking tools that have illuminated his theories of meaning, mind, and evolution. The big difference between human minds and the minds of other animals is our equipping ourselves with literally hundreds of thinking tools – cultural software that we install in our…
Find out more »Nancy Cartwright’s Farewell Conference
Nancy Cartwright's Farewell Conference Monday; 3rd June 2013; 1:45pm - 5pm in LAK 2.06 Speakers: Luc Bovens; Roman Frigg; Mary Morgan; Hakan Seckinelgin; Eleonora Montuschi and Mary Kaldor. The Department of Philosophy; Logic; and Scientific Method and the Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science invite you to Nancy Cartwright's farewell conference. Nancy has been at LSE as a…
Find out more »Colloquium: Measuring Well-Being in the UK, Europe and OECD countries
2:00-3:15 Erik Schokkaert “Beyond GDP. Measuring social progress in Europe” Abstract. In this paper we study the measurement of social progress. Recently, it has become widely accepted that focusing exclusively on income growth may lead to a too narrow-sighted measure of social progress. People care about other dimensions of life, such as their health, employment, social interactions and personal safety. Moreover, an exclusive focus on…
Find out more »Relativity Meets Quantum Theory
The two great scientific developments in our fundamental understanding of space, time and matter in the 20th century are relativity theory and quantum theory. What happens when relativity meets quantum theory? Understanding this question is one of the great challenges in the foundations of physics of the last 50 years. It takes a myriad of forms: How does the nature…
Find out more »History of Postwar Social Science Workshop
History of Postwar Social Science Workshop December 6; 2013
Find out more »How We Feel: what neuroscience can and can’t tell us about our emotions (CPNSS LSE Literary Festival lecture)
Is neuroscience better than philosophy to cope with anxiety in the face of the world’s economic crisis? What can a brain scan or a Caravaggio painting reveal about the deep seat of guilt? Can ancient remedies fight sadness more effectively than anti-depressants? What do poetry and joy have in common? And how can experiments in mice teach us how to…
Find out more »Rethinking Theory Construction in Social Science
Title: Rethinking Theory Construction in Social Science Date: Tuesday 11th March 2014 Time: 9:45am - 17:20pm Location: Room B.07; 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields; LSE Speakers: Prof. Mark Addis (Birmingham City University); Prof. Fernand Gobet (University of Liverpool); Prof. Leonard Smith (LSE); Dr. Charlotte Werndl (LSE) This interdisciplinary conference with speakers from Philosophy; psychology and statistics explores a novel research agenda…
Find out more »Workshop: Rationality & Consistency
London School of Economics; Lakatos Building; LAK.206 16:00: Welcome coffee 16:15
Find out more »Towards a Sustainable Financial System
Organising Committee: Ulf Dahlsten (Lead organiser, LSE), Jon Danielsson (LSE), Roman Frigg (LSE), Jean-Pierre Zigrand (LSE) Further information is available on the conference programme.
Find out more »London Foundations Conference: Foundations of Quantum Theory
Title: London Foundations Conference; Foundations of Quantum Theory Time: tbc After successful meetings in previous years at Senate House and Imperial college; the next London Foundations Conference on the Foundations of Quantum Theory will take place at the Centre for the Philosophy of Natural and Social Science; London School of Economics; on May 14; 2014. The meeting intends to increase…
Find out more »Philosophical Problems in Personalised Medicine (registration required)
The notion of “personalized medicine” has recently received a lot of attention. While the term is being used in a number of different ways, the core idea is that therapies in the future will be increasingly targeted to the individual, often genetic, characteristics of patients. This development raises questions of how clinical research evidence and regulatory requirements need to be…
Find out more »International Society for the Philosophy of Chemistry (ISPC) Annual Conference 2014
International Society for the Philosophy of Chemistry (ISPC) Annual Conference 2014 Monday-Wednesday; 7-9th July 2014; Lakatos Building LAK 2.06 Happily we have set up joint sponsorship of the meeting with the Centre for Natural and Social Science (CPNSS) at the LSE. The meetings will be in the Lecture Room (room LAK 2.06) in the Lakatos Building at the LSE; the…
Find out more »4th LSE Graduate Conference in Philosophy of Probability
For details, see here.
Find out more »Real Estate Bubbles, lessons learned by Japan, Uk, Sweden and China
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Find out more »History of Postwar Social Science Workshop
Schedule 10.00 – 10.50: Taming Maxwell’s Demon: Economists, historians of science, and the Bush Report on American science policy. Harro Maas (Utrecht University) & Roger Backhouse (University of Birmingham) Coffee break 11.20 – 12.10: The Rise and fall of central planning. David Engerman (Brandeis University) 12.20 – 13.10: The struggle over the place of political theory at Berkeley in the 1960s. Emily Hauptmann…
Find out more »Scientific Discovery in the Social Sciences (2 day workshop)
Scientific Discovery in the Social Sciences Friday 30th – Saturday 31st January 2015, all day Lakatos Building, room 2.06, LSE Conference Website This interdisciplinary conference explores issues arising from scientific discovery in the social sciences. Keynote talks will be given by speakers from philosophy, psychology and computer science. Submissions are invited from a range of disciplines including the behavioural and…
Find out more »Decisions, Games and Logic 2015
The Eighth Workshop in Decisions, Games and Logic (DGL) will be taking place 17-19 June 2015. The DGL workshop series aims to bring together graduate students, post-docs and researchers from philosophy, economics and logic working on formal approaches to rational individual and interactive decision making. Further information is available on the DGL2015 website.
Find out more »Decision Making under Severe Uncertainty
This workshop will take place under the joint auspices of the Managing Severe Uncertainty project based at the LSE and the DUSUCA project based at GREGHEC (HEC Paris, CNRS). Further details for this event will be announced soon,
Find out more »History of Postwar Social Science Workshop
Programme: 10.00 – 10.50: Newton Mangled on a Bissett Home-made, Electrical Computer: The Cold War, Social Science and Geography Trevor Barnes (University of British Columbia) Coffee break 11.20 – 12.10: How Realism Waltzed Off: Kenneth Waltz and the Cybernetic Turn in International Relations Theory Nicolas Guilhot (CIRHUS NYU) 12.20 – 13.10: The Great Cat Mutilation: Sex, Social Movements, and the…
Find out more »Explanation, Normativity, and Uncertainty in Economic Modelling
This conference will bring together philosophers and economists to explore philosophical aspects of economic modelling. Further information is available on the conference webpage.
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