[PhilPhys] LSE Philosophy Newsletter | Michaelmas Term 2018

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LSE Philosophy Newsletter | Michaelmas Term 2018
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Visitors
We welcome our new visitors to LSE Philosophy:
- Bernet Meijer and Silvia Milano
We renew our welcome to our continuing visitors:
- Marius Backmann, Jacob Bjorheim, Dong-Ryul Choo, Catherine Greene, Michael Hunter and Joe Mazor
And we renew our welcome to our Ludwig M. Lachmann Research Fellow, Professor Matthew Adler.
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Speakers

  *    Catrin Campbell Moore and Balázs Gyenis will give this term's Popper Seminars<http://www.lse.ac.uk/philosophy/popper-seminar/>
  *    Steven French, Karim Thébault and Rebecca Roache will appear at the Forum<http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/theforum/forthcomingevents/>
  *    Andrew Reisner and Hili Razinsky will speak at the Choice Group<http://www.lse.ac.uk/philosophy/choice-group/> lecture series on decision and social choice theory

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Events
John Worrall: "Evidence-Based Everything (but let's do the basing properly)<http://www.lse.ac.uk/philosophy/events/evidence-based-everything/>
Statements can be significant despite being "statements of the bleedin' obvious". The philosopher David Hume's remark that "The rational man adjusts his beliefs to the evidence" falls exactly into this category. It is surely "bleedin' obvious" that our views (and hence our policies) ought to be based on evidence, but Hume's claim is important exactly because it is so often ignored in practice. In these Trumpish times of disinformation and fake news, people's views seem more and more to be based on what they would like to be true rather than on any evidence that they are in fact true.
But agreeing that our views should be evidence-based is only the first step. When it comes to the details of what is involved in basing views (and policies) on evidence, things are by no means as straightforward as might be thought. On 19 October, this exaugural lecture investigates some of the difficulties using Evidence-Based Medicine as a test-case (though the lessons generalise to other areas such as the social sciences).
This event is free and open to all. Admission will operate on a first come, first served basis.

Lakatos Award Lectures 2018<http://www.lse.ac.uk/philosophy/events/lakatos-award-lectures-2018/>
On 26 October, the 2018 Lakatos Award winners, Craig Callender and Sabina Leonelli, will deliver two public lectures based upon their award-winning books. The lectures will be followed by a public award ceremony.
This event is free and open to all. Admission will operate on a first come, first served basis.


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