[PhilPhys] LSE Philosophy Newsletter | Summer Term 2016

[Philosophy]

* Coming up in Summer Term 2016
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** Visitors
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Visiting LSE Philosophy this term are Nicholas Baigent, Eric Brandstedt, Irene Bucelli, Tian Yu Cao, Ulf Dahlsten, Maxime Desmarais-Tremblay, Ulle Endriss, Alexander Krauss, Deborah G. Mayo, Heinrich Nax, Torsten Nies, Thomas Seiler, Maria Serban and Shambhavi Shankar.


** Speakers
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* Michael Redhead, Richard Sorabji and Sebastian de Haro are among the speakers at the Sigma Club lecture series on philosophy of physics: http://www.lse.ac.uk/philosophy/events/category/sigma-club/list/
* Deborah G. Mayo and Niko Kolodny will give this term's Popper Seminars: http://www.lse.ac.uk/philosophy/events/category/popper-seminar/list/
* Michael Morreau, Wlodek Rabinowicz and Geoff Brennan will be speaking at the Choice Group lecture series on decision and social choice theory: http://www.lse.ac.uk/philosophy/events/category/choice-group/list/
* J. McKenzie Alexander, Allen Buchanan, Catherine Wilson and Jonathan Birch will be appearing at the Forum: http://www.lse.ac.uk/philosophy/events/category/forum-for-european-philosophy/list/


** Conferences and Events
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Lakatos Award Lectures (http://www.lse.ac.uk/philosophy/events/lakatos-award-ceremony-2/)
Public lectures from the joint-winners of the 2014 Lakatos Award, Gordon Belot and David Malament.

Auguste Comte Memorial Lecture (http://www.lse.ac.uk/philosophy/events/the-problem-of-the-political-auguste-comte-memorial-lecture/)
Is the state's limiting of our personal freedoms a problem? If so, argues Niko Kolody, this problem has more to do with equality than with freedom.

Society for the History of Recent Social Science Conference 2016 (http://www.lse.ac.uk/philosophy/events/hisress16/)
This two-day conference will bring together researchers working on the history of post-World War II social science, including Craig Calhoun, Philippe Fontaine, Jamie Cohen-Cole and Jeff Pooley.

18th UK and European Conference on Foundations of Physics (http://www.lse.ac.uk/philosophy/blog/2015/10/01/foundations-2016/)
This conference is devoted to all foundational aspects of modern physics, and it also intends to create a forum for dialogue between physicists and philosophers of physics. Invited speakers are Richard Dawid and Carlo Rovelli.
http://www.lse.ac.uk/philosophy/blog/2015/10/01/foundations-2016/


** Interested in visiting us?
Find out more about our visitors programme: http://www.lse.ac.uk/CPNSS/visitorsprogramme/VisitorsProgramme.aspx

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