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28Nov

Lakatos Award Lecture 2025

Hosted by the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method and CPNSS.
In person at Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House, London, WC2A 2AE United Kingdom. Online (Via Zoom)
Friday 28 November 2025 6pm - 7.15pm

Join the Lakatos Award Lecture 2025 by Lakatos Award winner Mazviita Chirimuuta

Mazviita Chirimuuta received the 2025 Lakatos Award for her book “The Brain Abstracted: Simplification in the History and Philosophy of Neuroscience”. Mazviita Chirimuuta is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. Her current research interests include philosophy of perception, philosophy of neuroscience, and history of the mind/brain sciences.

Lakatos Award Winner 2025

The lecture will be followed by a reception in the Shaw Library, Old Building.

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