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Shira Ahissar
PhD Student
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Prof J. McKenzie Alexander
Professor
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Office: LAK 5.01

 

Evolutionary game theory. Evolution of morality and social norms. Philosophy of social science. Foundations of decision theory.

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Prof J. McKenzie Alexander
BSc Programme Director ‘Philosophy, Logic & Scientific Method’
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Dr Catherine Audard
Visiting Senior Fellow
Website: lse.ac.uk/theforum/

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Kant, Hegel, Continental philosophy. Anglo-American and political philosophy. Classical, “new” and neo-liberalisms. John Stuart Mill, problems of utilitarianism. Problems of contemporary citizenship and multiculturalism. The Rawls Habermas Debate.

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Prof Nick Baigent
Visiting Professor

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Rational Choice Theory. Identities and Violence. Topological Social Choice Theory.

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Dr Alessandra Basso
LSE Fellow
Website: Personal Website

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Office: LAK 3.01
 

 

Philosophy of the social sciences, with a particular focus on economics and measurement.

 

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Dr Lukas Beck
LSE Fellow
Website: www.lukasbeck.co/

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Office: LAK 2.01

Philosophy of Economics. Philosophy and Public Policy. Philosophy of Social Science (especially the Interface between Science and Policy).

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Lukas Beck
Faculty
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Prof Jonathan Birch
Professor
Website: personal.lse.ac.uk/birchj1/

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Office: KGS 2.07

 

Philosophy of science. Philosophy of biology. Philosophy of cognitive science.

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Dr Nadia Blackshaw
LSE Fellow

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Office: LAK 3.01
 

 

Philosophy of physics with a focus on foundations of quantum theory and Everettian Quantum Mechanics.

 

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Dr Suzanne Bloks
Guest Teacher

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Dr Ali Boyle
Assistant Professor
Website: http://www.aliboyle.com/

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Office: LAK 5.02

 

Philosophy of Cognitive Science, esp. Comparative Cognition; Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence; Philosophy of Memory; Philosophy of Biology.

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Dr Ali Boyle
Faculty
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Prof Richard Bradley
Professor
Website: personal.lse.ac.uk/bradleyr

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Office: LAK 2.03

 

Decision theory. Hypothetical reasoning. Foundations of economic and social theory.

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Prof Richard Bradley
BSc Programme Director ‘Philosophy, Politics & Economics’
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Dr Liam Kofi Bright
Associate Professor
Website: liamkofibright.com

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Office: LAK 2.05

 

Philosophy of science (especially philosophy of the social sciences). Epistemology (especially formal and social). Africana philosophy (especially the work of W. E. B. Du Bois).

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Dr Campbell Brown
Associate Professor

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Office: LAK 2.04

 

Moral and political philosophy, especially formal approaches to these. Rational and social choice theory.

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Prof Nancy Cartwright
Professor Emeritus

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Philosophy and history of science (especially physics and economics), causal inference, causal powers, scientific emergence and objectivity and evidence, especially for evidence-based policy [EBP].

Nancy Cartwright is Co-Director of the Centre for Humanities Engaging Science and Society and Professor of Philosophy at Durham University.

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Dr Bryan Cheang
Guest Teacher
Website: Personal Website

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Email: B.Cheang@lse.ac.uk

 

 

Political Theory of Capitalism, Comparative Economic Systems, State-Market Relations.

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Dominic Ede
PhD Student
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Dr Harriet Fagerberg
Guest Teacher
Website: www.hfagerberg.co.uk

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Office: LAK 4.04

Philosophy of Biology, Medicine and Psychiatry. Philosophy of Mind and Psychology

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Talita Ferrantelli
PhD Student
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Prof Roman Frigg
Professor and Head of the Department
Website: romanfrigg.org

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Office: KGS 2.06

 

Philosophy of science and philosophy of physics, with a special focus on climate change. Statistical physics. Chaos theory. Scientific modelling and representation.

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Prof Roman Frigg
Head of Department
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Prof Roman Frigg
Faculty
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Prof Wulf Gaertner
Visiting Professor

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Collective choice theory. Empirical studies in social choice. Theory of human rationality.

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Prof Fernand Gobet
Professorial Research Fellow
Website: chrest.info/fg/home

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Computational scientific discovery. Philosophy of science. Science of expertise. Acquisition of language. Cognitive training.

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Dr. Daniel Guillery
LSE Fellow
Website: www.danielguillery.com/

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Office: KGS 1.06

Moral and political philosophy

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Dr Vincent Harting
Guest Teacher
Website: Personal Website

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Normative political theory. Democratic innovations. Theories of economic justice. The history of socialist political thought.

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Dr Remco Heesen
Assistant Professor
Website: remcoheesen.eu

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Office: LAK 4.02
Philosophy of science, social epistemology, formal epistemology, social structure of science

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Dr Remco Heesen
BSc Programme Director ‘Philosophy & Economics’
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Isabel Lacurie
Professional Service Staff
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Prof Christian List
Visiting Professor
Website: personal.lse.ac.uk/list

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Social choice theory. Decision theory. Political theory, formal and normative. Philosophy of science and social science. Theories of democracy and deliberation. Theories of agency, mental causation, and free will.

Christian List is Professor of Philosophy and Decision Theory at LMU Munich and Co-Director of the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy. He also continues to be affiliated with the LSE’s Philosophy Department as a Visiting Professor.

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Arlene Lo
PhD Student
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Prof Anna Mahtani
Professor
Website: personal.lse.ac.uk/mahtania/

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Office: LAK 3.03

 

Vagueness. Philosophy of probability. Formal epistemology.

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Prof Anna Mahtani
Postgraduate Sub-Board of Examiners Chair
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Becky Matthams
Department Manager
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Dr Marie Milofsky
Assistant Professor (Education)

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Office: LAK 4.06

 

Political philosophy. Ethical theory. Rational choice and bargaining theory.

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Dr Marie Milofsky
Departmental Tutor
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Paloma Morales
PhD Student
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Dr Kieran Oberman
Associate Professor

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Office: KGS 2.01

 

Political Philosophy, Applied Ethics.

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Dr Kieran Oberman
MSc Programme Director ‘Philosophy and Public Policy’
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Yan Pang
Professional Service Staff
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Dr Raja Panjwani
Guest Teacher

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Formal Epistemology, Philosophy of Science, Political Philosophy, Metaethics.

 

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Dr Jonathan Parry
Associate Professor and Deputy Head of Department

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Office: LAK 3.04

 

Moral philosophy (especially the morality of harming and saving) and political philosophy (especially political authority and obligation).

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Dr Jonathan Parry
Deputy Head of Department
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Dr Jonathan Parry
Faculty
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Prof Miklós Rédei
Professor
Website: personal.lse.ac.uk/redeim

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Office: LAK 4.03

 

Foundational and philosophical problems of modern physics. Quantum logic. General issues in philosophy of science.

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Prof Miklós Rédei
MSc Programme Director ‘Philosophy of Science’ and Undergraduate Sub-Board of Examiners Chair
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Prof Bryan W. Roberts
Professor
Website: personal.lse.ac.uk/ROBERT49

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Office: LAK 4.01
Philosophy of physics, philosophy of time, philosophy of science.

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Bryan Roberts
Faculty
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Prof Bryan W. Roberts
Faculty
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Dr. Paola Romero
Guest Teacher

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Office: LAK 3.01

Political Philosophy. Kant’s theory of the state and his account of a political will.

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Dr Lewis Ross
Assistant Professor and CPNSS Director
Website: lewisdylanross.com/

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Office: LAK 1.01

 

Political philosophy. Epistemology, plus topics in philosophy of law, philosophy of science, and moral theory.

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Dr Lewis Ross
CPNSS Director
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Dr Charles Sherwood
Guest Teacher

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Moral and political philosophy. Business ethics. Ethics of negotiation.
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Max Steuer
Reader Emeritus
Work Phone: +44 (0)20 7955 7521

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Phone: +44 (0)20 7955 7521
Email: m.steuer@lse.ac.uk

Economic implications of culture. Evolutionary selection mechanisms. Rationality. Interaction between design and social forces.

Max Steuer joined the School’s Economics Department in 1959. He is a founding member of the Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science (CPNSS) and has regularly taught on the MSc Economics and Philosophy for the Department. He is the author of The Scientific Study of Society (2003).

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Dr Johanna Thoma
Visiting Professor
Website: johannathoma.com

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Practical rationality. Decision and game theory. Philosophy of economics. Moral philosophy.

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Mar Torró
Teaching Delivery and Deputy Department Manager
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Prof Alex Voorhoeve
Professor

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Office: LAK 3.02

 

Political philosophy. Rational and social choice theory. Moral philosophy. Philosophy of economics.

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Dr Kate Vredenburgh
Assistant Professor, Doctoral Programme Director
Website: katevredenburgh.com

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Office: LAK 5.03

 

Philosophy of science and social science. Political philosophy. Philosophy of technology.

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Prof Charlotte Werndl
Visiting Professor
Work Phone: +44 (0)20 7955 6507 Website: charlottewerndl.net/

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Phone: +44 (0)20 7955 6507
Email: c.s.werndl@lse.ac.uk
Website: charlottewerndl.net/

 

General philosophy of science, philosophy of physics, philosophy of climate science, philosophy of mathematics, evidence and philosophy of statistics

Charlotte Werndl is a professor of philosophy at the University of Salzburg, and maintains a visiting professorship at LSE.

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Prof John Worrall
Professor Emeritus
Website: johnworrall.org

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Email: j.worrall@lse.ac.uk

Philosophy of science. Theory change in science. Nineteenth century optics. Philosophy and methodology of medicine (especially the scope and limits of scientific method). Evidence-based medicine.

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Dr Wesley Wrigley
LSE Fellow
Website: www.wesleywrigley.com

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Office: LAK 4.05

 

Philosophy of mathematics, logic, and the history of analytic philosophy

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Dr Jingyi Wu
MSc Programme Director ‘MSc Philosophy of Economics and the Social Sciences’
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Dr Jingyi Wu
Assistant Professor
Website: www.jingyiwu.org/

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Office: LAK 2.02

(Formal, social, and feminist) epistemology. Philosophy of physics. Philosophy of race and gender. Asian diasporic philosophy.
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Jingyi Wu
Faculty
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Dr Xinhe Wu
Assistant Professor
Website: Personal Website

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Email: TBA
Website: Xinhe Wu – Home

Office: LAK 4.04
 

 

Philosophical logic, mathematical logic, metaphysics, and the philosophy of language.

 

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