👏 We are pleased to announce that @katenicolehoff.bsky.social will join us as Assistant Professor of Philosophy with focus on sustainability. Welcome to #LSEPhilosophy & the Global School of Sustainability (GSoS) @gsos-lse.bsky.social! 👉 Learn more about her research: www.lse.ac.uk/philosophy/n...

When, if ever, is it permissible for states to intervene militarily in the affairs of another? Join our upcoming LSE Public Lecture with @kieranoberman.bsky.social, @somayehtohidi.bsky.social, Paola Romero & Jonathan Parry. 🗓️ 5 May, 6.30pm-8pm 📍 LSE Campus & online 💻 www.lse.ac.uk/events/inter...

UK law requires that animals killed for food should be stunned. An exception is made for religious reasons. But @birchlse.bsky.social @lsephilosophy.bsky.social @lseanimalsentience.bsky.social argues that the resulting high level of non-stun slaughter is unjustified @lsepoliticsblog.bsky.social

#LSEPhilosophy Associate Professor Kate Vredenburgh and VR specialist Lauren Wong joined the Ethical Machines podcast by Reid Blackman to discuss the true impact of #AI on jobs. The two experts argue that there are at least two strong reasons for calming down -find out why: youtu.be/VuHcETDi93w

When, if ever, is it permissible for states to intervene militarily in the affairs of another? Join our upcoming LSE Public Lecture with @kieranoberman.bsky.social, @somayehtohidi.bsky.social, Paola Romero & Jonathan Parry. 🗓️ 5 May, 6.30pm-8pm 📍 LSE Campus & online 💻 www.lse.ac.uk/events/inter...

The ethical quandary of non-stun slaughter, by Jonathan Birch of @lsephilosophy.bsky.social. blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...

Workable welfare gains while respecting religious freedom - mandatory labelling, traceability and export rules to shift economic incentives and align non-stun supply with actual UK demand. New blog post. @lsephilosophy.bsky.social @birchlse.bsky.social

Economists now have a framework for bringing animal welfare into decision‑making. Nicolas Treich introduces a groundbreaking approach, and our panel explore implementation: www.youtube.com/live/1bIePsN... @granthamlse.bsky.social @gsos-lse.bsky.social @lsephilosophy.bsky.social

A little over 3weeks until we welcome Professor Roman Frigg, Head of LSE's Philosophy, Logic&Scientific Method, to present “Cyclones,Forecasts,&Uncertainty: How Model-Ensembles Can Be an Effective Guide to AnticipatoryAction.” 24.04, 1530. @lsephilosophy.bsky.social buff.ly/ofrb9qc buff.ly/vfSVdso

Is the veterinary profession truly independent? A central question at the Caring Vets Congress (18 April, Utrecht), with contributions including the latest research from Dr Steven McCulloch - explored in a recent @lsepoliticsblog.bsky.social post. @gsos-lse.bsky.social | @lsephilosophy.bsky.social

Next week!

👉 Don't forget to register!

A new call for scrutiny: systemic incentives, disincentives and structural pressures may be compromising veterinary independence - and the integrity of decisions that affect us all. blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp... @lsepoliticsblog.bsky.social @lsephilosophy.bsky.social @gsos-lse.bsky.social

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👀ICYMI: "Even if technologies are successfully commercialised and integrated into one sector, it does not mean that they will be hugely disruptive to the labour market across the board." #AiJobs #AiEfficiency #Disruption @lsephilosophy.bsky.social @lsedatascience.bsky.social

Workshop: Common Ground on Animal #Ethics - When #Philosophy Meets #Anthropology 🗓️ 30 April -1 May 📍 LSE Campus Abstract and programme: www.lse.ac.uk/philosophy/e... Registration: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/common-gro... @lseanimalsentience.bsky.social @lseanthropology.bsky.social

Join our upcoming Popper Seminar by Azita Chellappoo (Open University)! 👉 Topic: Bias, Values, and the New Demarcation Problem: Lessons from ‘Obesity’ Science 🗓️ Tuesday 31 March, 2pm - 3.30pm 📍 LAK 2.06, LSE Campus and online 💻 Abstract and Zoom Link: www.lse.ac.uk/philosophy/e...

Join our Conjectures and Refutations Inaugural Workshop on Scientific Modelling next month! 🗓️ Thursday 2 April 2026, 11am - 7pm 📍 LAK 2.06, LSE Campus Free and open to all! 💻 Abstract and registration: www.lse.ac.uk/philosophy/e... #PhilSci #Philosophy #LSEPhilosophy

How do we incorporate the welfare of animals in our policy decisions? Join the public lecture by Nicolas Treich this month! 🗓️ 24 March, 6.30pm 📍 LSE Campus & online 👉 Register now: www.lse.ac.uk/events/anima... @granthamlse.bsky.social @lseanimalsentience.bsky.social @gsos-lse.bsky.social

How to prevent consumption of non-consensual intimate images Helen Frowe @stockholm-uni.bsky.social and Jonathan Parry @lsephilosophy.bsky.social for @lsepoliticsblog.bsky.social

💥New | Will AI replace coders… How to read the next AI jobs hype cycle ✍️Kate Vredenburgh & Lauren Wong #Coding #AIJobs #HypeCycle (@lsephilosophy.bsky.social @lsedatascience.bsky.social)

What motivated our director to study animal minds - and when you make evidence‑based recommendations, what shifts first: public understanding, industry standards, or policy? New interview with Professor Jonathan Birch: www.lse.ac.uk/business/con... @birchlse.bsky.social @lsephilosophy.bsky.social

Happening tomorrow! 🔽

Tomorrow! 🔽

📹 Recording online! Sigma Club Seminar by Alexander Niederklapfer from #LSEPhilosophy: 'Localisation of Particles in Quantum Field theory' www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebQG... #PhilSci #Philosophy

How do we incorporate the welfare of animals in our policy decisions? Join the public lecture by Nicolas Treich this month! 🗓️ 24 March, 6.30pm 📍 LSE Campus & online 👉 Register now: www.lse.ac.uk/events/anima... @granthamlse.bsky.social @lseanimalsentience.bsky.social @gsos-lse.bsky.social

⏰ Less than two weeks left to apply!

Submit your nominations for the best monograph in #PhilSci for the Lakatos Award 2027! 👇

📣 We are pleased to announce the call for nominations for the Lakatos Award 2027! Deadline: 1 September 2026. 📚 Submit in your nominations for the best monograph in the philosophy of science! More information: www.lse.ac.uk/philosophy/n... #PhilSci #Lakatos #LSEPhilosophy #Philosophy

Taking pace next week! 🔽

Join us for the Oxford-Cambridge-London Philosophy of Medicine Society talk by Stephen John (University of Cambridge) 🗓️ Friday 13 March 2026 3pm - 5pm 📍 In-Person, LSE Campus Abstract: www.lse.ac.uk/philosophy/e... #Philosophy #Medicine #PhilSci #LSEPhilosophy @ox.ac.uk

The Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Sciences (CPNSS) is searching for two Research Officers for the ‘Your Boss is a Machine – Protecting Worker Autonomy in an #AI-Driven Economy’ project ⏰ Application deadline: 30 April 2026 💻 Apply via the LSE job page: jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

Here is the recording of our Inaugural BSPS Popper prize lecture we gave w/ Alex Franklin at the LSE yesterday. This was such an amazing experience!! @lsephilosophy.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1Sa...

⚛️ Do molecules have structure? Yesterday, @vanessaseifert.bsky.social and Alexander Franklin delivered the BSPS Popper Prize lecture and talked about their award winning research. 📹 Lecture recording: www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1Sa... #PhilSci @aliboyle.bsky.social @thebsps.bsky.social

⚗️🔭 How do we spark new scientific discoveries? Why do some breakthroughs seem accidental? The new book 'The Engine of Scientific Discovery' by CPNSS Research Associate Alexander Krauss is for anyone who wants to understand how we make discoveries. ➡ Link to the book: doi.org/10.1093/oso/...

⏰ Tonight! @aliboyle.bsky.social @thebsps.bsky.social @vanessaseifert.bsky.social #PhilSci #Philosophy #Popper

Save the date for a special seminar talk at #LSEPhilosophy Luz Christopher Seiberth (University of Potsdam): "Arguments as Vehicles for the Space of Intelligence" 📅 Wednesday 11 March, 2-4pm 📍 LAK 2.06, LSE Campus and online 👉 Abstract & Zoom: www.lse.ac.uk/philosophy/e... #PhilSci #Philosophy

📣 CPNSS is searching for two Research Officers! Deadline: 15 March 🌟 Research Officer in Cosmology and the Edge of the Universe: jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... 🌟 Research Officer in Gauge and the Edge of the Universe: jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... @soulphysics.bsky.social #Philsci #Philosophy

👉The recording of our Social Epistemology Research Group (SERG) Seminar by C. Thi Nguyen @add-hawk.bsky.social is now available online! 🎲The Score: How to Stop Playing Someone Else’s Game www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeSz... #epistemology #philosophy #games #partoflse #lsephilosophy

📢Call for papers! Workshop: New Directions in Law-Based Explanations in the Sciences 🗓️ 14-15 September ⏰ Deadline for papers: 31 March More information: www.lse.ac.uk/philosophy/e...

⏰ Next week! @aliboyle.bsky.social @thebsps.bsky.social @vanessaseifert.bsky.social #PhilSci #Philosophy #Popper

One week left! We’re accepting Expressions of Interest for our funded MPhil/PhD in Philosophy at LSE, joining our interdisciplinary team advancing understanding of, and ways of caring for, nonhuman species. Deadline 23 Feb. Details: www.lse.ac.uk/sentience/phd @lsephilosophy.bsky.social

📣 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...

🙌Huge congratulations to Lea Bourguignon, Junior Research Fellow @trincollcam.bsky.social, on the successful completion of her PhD @lsephilosophy.bsky.social , 'On Being Justifiable to Others: Act Contractualism, Numbers, and Justification'. leabourguignon.com

🐈‍⬛Animal Minds: New Theories and new Observations🐒 09.-10.02. @ruhr-uni-bochum.de ZEMOS Building & Online via Zoom animal-cognition.philosophy-cognition.com @lsephilosophy.bsky.social #LSEPhilosophy #CognitiveScience #AnimalCognition @birchlse.bsky.social @kristinandrews.bsky.social #AnimalMinds

Join our upcoming Social Epistemology Research Group (SERG) Seminar by C. Thi Nguyen @add-hawk.bsky.social 🗓️ Monday, 9 February, 12pm (London time) 📍 LSE Campus and Zoom 🎲 Title: "The Score: How to Stop Playing Someone Else’s Game" 🔗 Abstract & Zoom: www.lse.ac.uk/philosophy/e...

🎓We are pleased to announce the new Maria Kandarakis Memorial PhD #Scholarship, supporting one funded PhD place at #LSEPhilosophy. 🗓️Register your interest by 23 February 2026. 📣 Please share widely! More information: www.lse.ac.uk/sentience/phd

Join our #Popper Seminar by Chiara Ambrosio (UCL) next week! Chiara will talk about "Scientific Images as Pragmatist Experiments" 🗓️ Tuesday 27 January, 2pm (London time) 📍 LSE Campus - and online Abstract and Zoom link: www.lse.ac.uk/philosophy/e...

A reminder! Tonight we've got Lewis Ross from @lsephilosophy.bsky.social: 'Are Philosophers Absurd? Progress, Testimony & Dividing Labour' 📍18.15, Woburn Suite, Senate House. Please note: our website is temporarily down and we hope to have it up and running again soon! Apologies. #philosophy

📣 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...