[PhilPhys] Philosophy at LSE News January 2013

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The Centre <http://www2.lse.ac.uk/CPNSS/home.aspx>  welcomes its visitors for the term: Alessandro Allegra, Eduardo Alonso, Seamus Bradley, Bruce Caldwell, Mike Dascal, Conal Duddy, Andrew Goldfinch, Stephan Guettinger, Hykel Hosni, Silvia Milano, Dean Peters, Sally Riordan, Stefan Schubert, Omri Tal and Christopher Thompson.

 

Events

James Wells (CERN and University of Michigan at Ann Arbour) will give a Sigma Club <http://www2.lse.ac.uk/CPNSS/events/SigmaClub/Home.aspx>  talk on 'Will We Ever Be Sure the Higgs Boson Has Been Discovered?' on February 4, 5:15-6:45pm, LAK.2.06.

The Forum for European Philosophy <http://www2.lse.ac.uk/europeanInstitute/research/forumForEuropeanPhilosophy/Home.aspx>  and the Centre <http://www2.lse.ac.uk/CPNSS/home.aspx>  will host a panel discussion on 'Design in Nature' with Sarah Coakley (University of Cambridge), John Cottingham (University of Oxford) and John Worrall (LSE) on Febuary 7, 6:30-8pm, New Theatre, East Building. 

The Forum for European Philosophy <http://www2.lse.ac.uk/europeanInstitute/research/forumForEuropeanPhilosophy/Home.aspx>  will host a dialogue 'On Humour' with Julian Baggini and Hardeep Singh Kohli on February 18, 6:30-8pm, Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building. 

Erik Schokkaert (University of Leuven and LSE) will give a Popper seminar <http://www2.lse.ac.uk/philosophy/NewsandEvents/seminars/popperseminars.aspx>  on  'Taboos in Health Care Policy: Solidarity, Growing Expenditures and Innovation' on March 19, 2-3:30pm, LAK.2.06. 

The Centre and the Forum will also host a number of events during the LSE Annual Literary Festival. Details can be found here <http://www2.lse.ac.uk/publicEvents/spaceForThought/LiteraryFestival2013/Home.aspx> . 

 

News

The Lakatos Award, of £10,000 for an outstanding contribution to the philosophy of science, has been won by Wolfgang Spohn of the University of Konstanz for his book 'The Laws of Belief: Ranking Theory and its Philosophical Implications' (OUP, 2012). 

Christian List, Professor of Political Science and Philosophy in the Departments of Government and Philosophy at the LSE, has been awarded a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship, from October 2013 to September 2016. The Leverhulme Trust makes these awards to "enable well-established and distinguished researchers in the disciplines of the Humanities and Social Sciences to devote themselves to a single research project of outstanding originality and significance". His research project is entitled 'Reasons, Decisions, and Intentional Agency'. For more information, see here <http://www2.lse.ac.uk/government/Professor-Christian-List-awarded-Leverhulme-Major-Research-Fellowship.aspx> . 

Congratulations to Seamus Bradley for winning this year's Watkins Prize. The prize is awarded to an outstanding student working in an area related to the research interests of Professor John Watkins: philosophy of science, political philosophy, decision theory and philosophy of biology. 

 

 

 	
 	

 

 

 

 

 
 
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