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Clara Bradley (UCL): ‘The Relationship Between Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Mechanics: The Irregular Case.’
Abstract: Lagrangian and Hamiltonian mechanics are widely held to be two distinct but equivalent ways of formulating classical theories. Barrett (2019) makes this intuition precise by showing that under a certain characterization of their structure, the two theories are categorically equivalent. However, Barrett only shows equivalence between “hyperregular” models of Lagrangian and Hamiltonian mechanics. While hyperregularity characterizes a large class of…
Find out more »Mark D’Souza (UCL): ‘The Criminal Blameworthiness of Negligence: Guidance and Choices’
Abstract: Theorists defending criminal liability for negligence think we can hold someone criminally liable for inadvertently causing an outcome when she could have become aware of the risk of causing it through her conduct, but did not, for (explanatory) reasons that reflect badly on her character. One popular explanation of how these reasons reflect on D’s character, is that they show that D…
Find out more »Choice Group Seminar by Katie Steele (The Australian National University)
The title and abstract will be announced on the day and via the Choice Group mailing list. Sign up for more information about this event. This event will take place in person on LSE’s campus. However, those unable to attend in person will have the option of taking part online. To join online just follow these instructions: Download Zoom Zoom link for…
Find out more »Philip Thonemann (CPNSS): ‘Defending the Value-Free Ideal for Science’
Abstract: The present consensus is that the value-free ideal for science is dead, or at least on life-support. I'll aim to resurrect or resuscitate it, by showing that the supposedly serious Argument from Inductive Risk is, in its various forms, either wrong, irrelevant, or socially harmful. Of the two remaining arguments, that from Citizenship is critically vague, leaving only that from…
Find out more »Margarida Hermida (King’s College London): ‘Philosophy of Quantum Biology’
Abstract: Quantum physics may be responsible for the behaviour and stability of matter, but it is less obvious that it has any specific relevance for the explanation of biological processes. Here I discuss the essential role of electron tunnelling in respiration, and its evolutionary consequences. All complex life on Earth is eukaryotic. Eukaryotes originated from the endosymbiotic partnership between an archaeon…
Find out more »Maria Alvarez (King’s College London): ‘Having a Choice, Making a Choice and Responsibility’
Abstract coming soon. Maria Alvarez is a Professor of Philosophy at the King's College London. This event will take place in person on LSE’s campus. However, those unable to attend in person will have the option of taking part online. To join online just follow these instructions: Download Zoom Register in advance for this meeting: https://lse.zoom.us/j/86589559214?pwd=EzuGbUmRfJRcssb4wY4aXQHtx6toWc.1 Please note that these events are routinely recorded, with…
Find out more »Choice Group Seminar by Jonathan Parry (LSE Philosophy)
The title and abstract will be announced on the day and via the Choice Group mailing list. Sign up for more information about this event. This event will take place in person on LSE’s campus. However, those unable to attend in person will have the option of taking part online. To join online just follow these instructions: Download Zoom Zoom link for…
Find out more »Chris Bennett (University of Sheffield): ‘Guilt as an Expressive Emotion’
Abstract coming soon. Chris Bennett is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sheffield. This event will take place in person on LSE’s campus. However, those unable to attend in person will have the option of taking part online. To join online just follow these instructions: Download Zoom Register in advance for this meeting: https://lse.zoom.us/j/86709656946?pwd=qfsKdtTF02QWtJCG2yN9OhymtpvbfV.1 Please note that these events are routinely recorded,…
Find out more »Grades of Mind: Agency, Memory, Sentience
"In attempting to understand the elements out of which mental phenomena are compounded, it is of the greatest importance to remember that from the protozoa to man there is nowhere a very wide gap either in structure or in behaviour. From this fact it is a highly probable inference that there is also nowhere a very wide mental gap." -…
Find out more »Choice Group Seminar by Peter Vickers (Durham University)
The title and abstract will be announced on the day and via the Choice Group mailing list. Sign up for more information about this event. This event will take place in person on LSE’s campus. However, those unable to attend in person will have the option of taking part online. To join online just follow these instructions: Download Zoom Zoom link for…
Find out more »Workshop: No Justice No Peace: The Ethics of Violent Protests
This event will bring together political, moral, and legal philosophers for a one-day workshop on the manuscript of Avia Pasternak’s forthcoming book, No Justice No Peace: The Ethics of Violent Protests. The book and workshop focus on a topic of pressing political concern: Under what conditions is it permissible for citizens to engage in forms of violent political dissent?…
Find out more »Formal Democratic Theory Workshop
Join us for the Formal Democratic Theory Workshop organised as part of the ‘Cohesion and Deliberative Decision-Making’ project, which is based at the Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science (CPNSS) at LSE. This workshop brings together researchers in philosophy, politics and economics who work on questions in formal democratic theory. The goal is to explore the contribution that democratic…
Find out more »Klaas Landsman (Radboud University Nijmegen): ‘Philosophy of mathematical physics from A to B’
Abstract: As noted by Mark Steiner, 'To an unappreciated degree, the history of Western Philosophy is the history of attempts to understand why Mathematics is applicable to Nature, despite apparently good reasons to believe that it should not be.’ I sharpen this topic to mathematical physics, including a definition and conceptualization thereof. This will take us from Aristotle to Brandom,…
Find out more »Sir Karl Popper Memorial Lecture 2025 by Peter Godfrey-Smith
Join us for the Sir Karl Popper Memorial Lecture which will be delivered by Peter Godfrey-Smith who will speak about tolerance and the freedom of expression. Topic: Tolerance and freedom of expression Date: Monday 2 June 2025, 6:30pm-8:00pm Venue: Old Theatre, Old Building, LSE Campus - and online Link to the event page. About the event Karl Popper suggested…
Find out more »Jingyi Wu (LSE Philosophy): ‘Rigor Capture’
Abstract: In the foundations of physics and other formal disciplines, women and some racial minorities often feel a need to meet an elevated standard for rigor in their work. This is plausibly an adaptive response to negative stereotypes about technical competence based on their social identities. This phenomenon is arguably an instance of respectability politics: a political strategy wherein members of a…
Find out more »Choice Group Seminar – PhD Edition
The title and abstract will be announced on the day and via the Choice Group mailing list. Sign up for more information about this event. This event will take place in person on LSE’s campus. However, those unable to attend in person will have the option of taking part online. To join online just follow these instructions: Download Zoom Zoom link for…
Find out more »Hasan Dindjer (University of Oxford): ‘The Law’s False Promise’
Abstract coming soon. Hasan Dindjer is an Associate Professor of Law at the Faculty of Law and the Blanesburgh Fellow and Tutor in Law at Balliol College. This event will take place in person on LSE’s campus. However, those unable to attend in person will have the option of taking part online. To join online just follow these instructions: Download Zoom…
Find out more »Choice Group Seminar by Somayeh Tohidi (LSE Philosophy)
The title and abstract will be announced on the day and via the Choice Group mailing list. Sign up for more information about this event. This event will take place in person on LSE’s campus. However, those unable to attend in person will have the option of taking part online. To join online just follow these instructions: Download Zoom Zoom link for…
Find out more »JB Manchak (UC Irvine): ‘Spacetime Asymmetry’
Abstract: I will present a hierarchy of spacetime asymmetry conditions within the context of general relativity. The weakest condition -- known as "rigidity" (Geroch 1969) -- captures a sense in which a spacetime is free of symmetry “holes” of a certain type. The rigidity condition is necessary for some strong forms of determinism (Belot 1995). Because all standard models of general relativity…
Find out more »David Enoch (University of Oxford): ‘Foreseeing Intended Harm’
Abstract coming soon. David Enoch is a Professor of Philosophy of Law at the University of Oxford. This event will take place in person on LSE’s campus. However, those unable to attend in person will have the option of taking part online. To join online just follow these instructions: Download Zoom Register in advance for this meeting: https://lse.zoom.us/j/86242529302?pwd=TumP6qcFVPzbNiGW7OgdhlShdC5k7K.1 Please note that these events are…
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