[PhilPhys] Philosophy at LSE News May 2012

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Philosophy at LSE
The London School of Economics and Political Science
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London WC2A 2AE 
United Kingdom 

Contacts: 

Department: philosophy-dept at lse.ac.uk 

Centre: philcent at lse.ac.uk 

Forum: philosophy-forum at lse.ac.uk 

 	 Visitors

Visitors to the Centre <http://www2.lse.ac.uk/CPNSS/home.aspx>  this
term include: Dragos Bigu, David Chambers, Anja Mueller-Wood, Silvia
Milano, Sally Riordan, Friedrich Pukelsheim, Tian Yu Cao, and Hykel
Hosni.

Events

The Centre's Order Project
<http://www2.lse.ac.uk/CPNSS/projects/orderProject/home.aspx>  will host
lectures by Geoffrey Hodgson (Hertfordshire) on 'What are
Institutions?', Monday, 14 May, 5:30pm, CON1.06 and Garry Runciman
(Cambridge) on 'The Surprising Coherence of Human Institutions', Monday,
21 May, 11am-1pm, T206.

Joshua Cohen (Stanford) will give the 2012 Auguste Comte Memorial
Lectures
<http://www2.lse.ac.uk/publicEvents/events/2012/05/20120515t1830vOT.aspx
>  on 'Mobile for Development Meets Human-Centred Design' and 'Mobile
for Development - Global Justice', Tuesday, 15 May and Wednesday, 16
May, 6:30-8pm, Old Theatre, Old Building.

The Department of Philosophy
<http://www2.lse.ac.uk/philosophy/home.aspx>  and the Forum for European
Philosophy
<http://www2.lse.ac.uk/europeanInstitute/research/forumForEuropeanPhilos
ophy/Home.aspx>  will co-host an international conference
<http://www2.lse.ac.uk/europeanInstitute/research/forumForEuropeanPhilos
ophy/events/conferences/Home.aspx>  on 'The Politics of Secession in the
European Union' on Tuesday, 22 May, 10am-6:30pm, Room 349, Senate House.

The Centre <http://www2.lse.ac.uk/CPNSS/home.aspx>  presents Quentin
Skinner (Queen Mary, UCL) on 'Philosophically Speaking about Freedom' on
Thursday, 24 May, 6:30-8pm, New Theatre, East Building.

The Choice Group
<http://www2.lse.ac.uk/CPNSS/projects/CoreResearchProjects/ChoiceGroup/c
hoice_group_events.aspx>  will host a book launch event for Eric
Schokkaert (KUL) and Wulf Gaertner's (Osnabrueck and LSE) 'Empirical
Social Choice' as part of the 'Belgian Salon' series at the Belgian
Embassy. Wednesday, 30 May, 5:30pm. 

David Wallace (Oxford) will give a Sigma Club
<http://www2.lse.ac.uk/CPNSS/events/SigmaClub/Home.aspx>  talk on 'And
yet, it works: Lessons for Foundations from Mainstream Non-Equilibrium
Statistical Mechanics' on Monday 25 June, 5-7pm, LAK.2.06.

News

The Department is pleased to welcome a new lecturer, Dr Gabriel Wollner
<http://www.ethics.harvard.edu/people/show-bio/all/393?layout=showbio> ,
and two new LSE Fellows, Dr Joseph Mazor
<http://www.gov.harvard.edu/people/josephmazor> and Emily McTernan
<http://cambridge.academia.edu/EmilyMcTernan> , who will be taking up
their positions during the coming academic year.

John Worrall
<http://www2.lse.ac.uk/philosophy/WhosWho/staffhomepages/worrall.aspx>
participated in BBC radio discussions of philosophy and the scientific
method (podcast here
<http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/iot/iot_20120126-1215a.mp3>
) and of the significance of Nassim Nicholas Taleb and his book 'The
Black Swan' (podcast here
<http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/analysis/analysis_20120312-2
100a.mp3> ). 

Colin Howson
<http://www2.lse.ac.uk/researchAndExpertise/Experts/profile.aspx?KeyValu
e=c.howson at lse.ac.uk>  has a new book 'Objecting to God', published by
Cambridge University Press. 

Nancy Cartwright <http://personal.lse.ac.uk/cartwrig/Default.htm>  will
give the 2012 Pufendorf Lectures
<http://www.pufendorf.se/sectione195b.html?id=2864>  in Lund in May.

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