📣 Join us for the inaugural BSPS #Popper Prize lecture, delivered by philosophers of science Alexander Franklin and @vanessaseifert.bsky.social. 🗓️ Wednesday 25 February, 6.30pm - 8pm 📍 LSE Campus and online 💻 Register now to attend in-person or online! More: www.lse.ac.uk/events/molec...

🤔Is #AI benefitting society right now? A group of experts including #LSEPhilosophy Associate Professor Kate Vredenburgh discuss the present state of human/AI relationships on the Suspicious Minds Podcast 🎧 #ai #mentalhealth #podcast www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieAv...

🎄And that’s a wrap on another successful year at #LSEPhilosophy! We’re now heading off for a short break, but we’ll be back soon with more exciting events and news. ✨We are wishing you all a restful and festive season✨ #PartOfLSE #Philosophy #LSE #London

🥳 Congratulations to our #LSEPhilosophy Class of 2025! 🥂 We had an amazing time at graduation and are so incredibly proud of you all! We can't wait to have you back on campus and hear all about your life after graduation! #PartOfLSE #Philosophy #LSE #London #Graduation

📽️ The recording of our Sigma Club seminar by Claudio Calosi is now available online! #LSEPhilosophy #PhilSci #Philosophy #LSE youtu.be/9j2My6MCWRw

CPNSS Fellow Rosalind Arden has written an article about embryo selection for Quillette. A number of companies are now offering embryo screening - Rosalind Arden discusses the process, history, and #ethics of a potentially revolutionary new #technology: quillette.com/2025/12/02/e... #Philosophy

Warm congratulations to Mazviita Chirimuuta, who received the 2025 Lakatos Award for her book "The Brain Abstracted" — "an outstanding example of the kind of work being done at the cutting edge of contemporary philosophy of science." mitpress.mit.edu/978026254804...

Last Friday Senior Lecturer in Philosophy Dr Mazviita Chirimuuta was presented with the Lakatos Award in recognition of her book “The Brain Abstracted: Simplification in the History and Philosophy of Neuroscience”. At the ceremony Dr Chirimuuta gave a lecture which you can view below.

🎥 Watch the Lakatos Award Lecture 2025 by Mazviita Chirimuuta on "Apocalyptic Technology: #AI and the Limits of #Science" Mazviita Chirimuuta received the award for her book “The Brain Abstracted: Simplification in the History and Philosophy of Neuroscience” www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KkX...

Tomorrow! Join us in-person or online!

Mazviita Chirimuuta's Lakatos Award Lecture will be live streamed on Friday, November 28 from the London School of Economics: lse.zoom.us/j/8494972146... Congratulations to Mazviita on this very prestigious award for her @mitpress.bsky.social book THE BRAIN ABSTRACTED!

This Friday, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy Dr Mazviita Chirimuuta will deliver the Lakatos Award Lecture. You can book FREE tickets to attend the lecture (in-person or online. By Following the link below. (1/2)

Tomorrow 👇

#LSEPhilosophy Associate Professor Kate Vredenburgh has been featured on the Suspicious Mind Podcast discussing the impact of #AI on human relationship. The episode is part of a series that investigates the disturbing rise of AI as a trigger for delusional thinking. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUd5...

Join our #LSEPhilosophy Popper Seminar by Karen Kovaka (University of California) on "What is meta-analysis good for?" next week! 🗓️ Tuesday 18 November 2025 2pm - 3.30pm 📍 LSE Campus and online! 👉 Abstract and Zoom link: www.lse.ac.uk/philosophy/e...

Many thanks for attending our public lecture on 'Saving Britain's #wildlife' with Iris Berger, Luke Hecht, Karen Kovaka, @kneppwilding.bsky.social, and chaired by @birchlse.bsky.social last night! 👉 The recording is now available online: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYHe... 🌲 @gsos-lse.bsky.social

🐝 TONIGHT - Britain's wildlife has been under pressure for centuries. Is there any way back? Combining ecology and conservation with @lsephilosophy.bsky.social and the social sciences, explore the protection of our habitats with The Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience - in person or online!

#LSEPhilosophy Associate Professor Jonathan Parry and his colleague @chreaston.bsky.social (University of Birmingham) have published a new article in Big Issue discussing the current recruitment practices in the UK military 👇

📣 Tomorrow!

📣Save the date for the Lakatos Award Lecture 2025 by Mazviita Chirimuuta! 🗓️ Friday 28 November, 6pm (London time) 📍 LSE campus and online More: www.lse.ac.uk/philosophy/e...

Join our upcoming public lecture on 'Saving Britain's wildlife' with Iris Berger, Luke Hecht, Karen Kovaka, @kneppwilding.bsky.social - chaired by @birchlse.bsky.social 🗓️ Tuesday 11 November - 6.30pm (London time) 📍 LSE campus and online 🎟️ Register at: www.lse.ac.uk/events/savin...

Congratulations!!! 👏

🎓 Thinking about pursuing a #PhD in #philosophy? Then join us for the upcoming virtual graduate open event next month! 📅 Thursday 20 November, 10-11am (London time) 📍 Zoom 👉 Register via the event page: www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse...

🎥 The recording of our latest Sigma Club seminar by Kasia Rejzner is now available online! Topic: Quantum reference frames and semi-local observables in quantum field theory www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZHn... #philsci #philosophy #science #LSEPhilosophy

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⏰ Calling all #AI experts! Apply now!

Join the #LSEPhilosophy Virtual Graduate Open Day online and learn more about our MSc programmes! 🗓️12 November, 1.30-2.30pm (London time) 📍 Zoom Meet our programme directors and ask questions about our department and programmes! 👉 Sign up: lse.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

"Chance as a Guide to Life: The Other Principal Principle" by Richard Bradley #newarticle #philosophy #philsky doi.org/10.5840/jphi...

⏰ Calling all #AI experts! Apply now!

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🎥 The recording of our latest Popper Seminar is now available online! Listen to Jingyi Wu (LSE Philosophy) talk about 'Rigor Capture' www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXdN...

Join our #LSEPhilosophy seminar by Rachel Ankeny (Wageningen University) next week! Title of the talk: "Organisms as technologies ​between lab and field: ​Modelling in precision toxicology​" 📅 Tuesday 21 October, 11am-12.30pm 📍 LSE Campus & Zoom Abstract & Zoom link: www.lse.ac.uk/philosophy/e...

Catch up on the Auguste Comte Lecture 2025 delivered by Luara Ferracioli, Associate Professor at the University of Sydney and a leading thinker on the #philosophy of #immigration and the philosophy of the #family. 📽️ "Depopulation: an ethical perspective": www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfCv...

⏰ Tonight!

📸The recording of our launch event for the Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience is now online! Our panelist Kristin Andrews, @birchlse.bsky.social, Leonie Bossert, Jane Lawton, and Jeff Sebo discussed how #AI is transforming the lives of animals: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tumQ...

"Seeing animals differently: the science and ethics of sentience" - new article by @birchlse.bsky.social for LSE's #LSEResearchForTheWorld magazine! www.lse.ac.uk/research/res...

Join our Law, Ethics and Justice Seminar by #LSEPhilosophy Associate Professor Kieran Oberman 🗓️ 7 October, 4.30-6pm 📍 LAK 2.06. LSE Campus - and online! 🔗 Zoom registration: lse.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

🐄🐔The Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience now got its own website! 👉 www.lse.ac.uk/sentience 🤳 Make sure to follow them on LinkedIn for more updates: www.linkedin.com/company/anim...

So excited for our launch event tonight! Make sure to tune in online!

#LSEPhilosophy Professor Alex Voorhoeve and colleagues have published their new paper "Are we better at finding inconsistencies in our own moral case judgments or in others’ moral case judgments?" in Psychological and Behavioural Science. 🔓 Link to the article: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Join our Choice Group Seminar by Bernhard Salow (University of Oxford) this week! 🗓️ Wednesday 1 October, 4.30pm 📍 LSE campus and online 🔗 Mailing list and Zoom link: www.lse.ac.uk/philosophy/e...

#AI is transforming the lives of animals at speed, but these huge impacts are going unchecked. Isabella Logothetis, Spencer Jury @birchlse.bsky.social @lsephilosophy.bsky.social argue more must be done to make sure AI works for, not against the interests of other species @lseeuroppblog.bsky.social.

Artificial intelligence is transforming the lives of animals at speed, but these huge impacts are going unnoticed and unregulated. ✍ Isabella Logothetis, Spencer Jury & @birchlse.bsky.social @lsephilosophy.bsky.social blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...

🥳 The @thetimes.com Good University Guide 2026 has ranked LSE as the number one university in the UK. #LSEPhilosophy has been ranked as the best department in the country for #Philosophy - for the second year in a row! 👉 To the league table: www.thetimes.com/uk-universit...

Join us for the annual Auguste Comte lecture delivered by Luara Ferracioli, a leading thinker on the #philosophy of #immigration and the philosophy of the family. 🗓️ Mon 6 October, 6.30-8pm 📍LSE campus and online 🎟️ The event is free but registration is required 👉 More: www.lse.ac.uk/events/depop...

Join our launch event for the Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience! 👉 How AI is helping - and harming - animals 📅 30 September, 6.30pm (London time), LSE Campus With Kristin Andrews, @birchlse.bsky.social, Leonie Bossert, Jane Lawton, Jeff Sebo, & Roman Frigg www.lse.ac.uk/events/how-a...

What situations warrant #humanitarian #intervention, and does it always help those it aims to protect? The Ethics of Humanitarian Intervention by Jonathan Parry @lsephilosophy.bsky.social examines the moral complexities, high stakes and consequences involved @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social.

📢 The LSE Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method is hiring for an Assistant Professor with a focus on sustainability, and close collaboration with us! ⬇️

NEW✨ What kinds of #HumanRights abuses warrant #humanitarian intervention? And does #intervention effectively help those it aims to protect? The Ethics of Humanitarian Intervention by Jonathan Parry @lsephilosophy.bsky.social @routledgebooks.bsky.social reviewed by Riti Kumari.

📄 We are pleased to announce that Volume 7 – Issue 1 of ‘Studies in Philosophy, Politics and Economics’ is now available online. The latest edition contains seven articles and two book reviews by our #LSEPhilosophy PPE students. 🔓 Link to the journal: sppe.lse.ac.uk/7/volume/7/i...