Lakatos Award Lecture 2025: Recording now online!

On 28 November 2025, Lakatos Award winner Mazviita Chirimuuta gave her lecture on "Apocalyptic Technology: AI and the Limits of Science" at LSE.

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.

About the Lakatos Award

The Lakatos Award is given annually for an outstanding contribution to the philosophy of science, widely interpreted, in the form of a book published in English during the current year or the previous five years.