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Improv Your Mind: Philosophy, Music, and Making Things Up
Andrew Bowie/ Laura Cull Ó Maoilearca/ Andy Hamilton
Brain in a Vat and Other Stories: A Celebration of Hilary Putnam
Julian Baggini/ Jesper Kallestrup/ Chris Norris/ Sarah Sawyer
Future Sex: Technology, Desire, and the New Rules of Engagement
Katherine Angel/ Kate Devlin/ Fern Riddell
Can We Learn from Suffering?
Danielle Sands/ Anatasia Scrutton/ Tom Stern
Hive Minds: Collective Intelligence in Humans and Other Animals
Larissa Condradt/ Elli Leadbeater/ Christian List
Reason and Rhetoric: The Ethics of Public Discussion
John Crace/ Catarina Dutilh Novaes/ William Outhwaite/ Jo Phillips
The Worst Form of Government?
Beatrix Campbell/ Peter Hallward/ Edward Kanterian
Women in Science: Past, Present, and Future Challenges
Patricia Fara/ Melissa Hines/ Cailin O’Connor
Thinking in Public: Philosophy, Politics, and the Public
Catherine Audard/ Geoffrey Bennington/ François Noudelmann
Evolution and Moral Progress
J. McKenzie Alexander/ Allen Buchanan/ Catherine Wilson
A Right to Be Believed? Testimony in Sexual Abuse Cases
Louise Ellison/ Gloria Origgi/ Stephen Vullo
Heidegger and Technology
Babette Babich/ Taylor Carman/ Daniel Dahlstrom/ Patricia Glazebrook/ Aaron Wendland
This House Believes We Should Leave the European Union
Ben Cobley/ Hugo Dixon/ Katrin Flikschuh/ Gerard Lyons
Against the Double Blackmail: Refugees, Terror and Other Troubles with the Neighbours
Slavoj Žižek/ Danielle Sands
What Are Prisons For?
Christopher Bennett/ Kimberley Brownlee/ Andrew Neilson
The Right to Be an Independent State?
John Breuilly/ Cara Nine
Darwinism and the Social Sciences
Tim Lewens/ Alex Mesoudi/ Christina Toren/ Andrew Buskell
Ideals of Equality: Feminisms in the Twenty-First Century
Sophie-Grace Chappell/ Heidi Mizra / Jacqueline Rose/ Zoe Williams
Progress in Troubled Times: Learning from the ‘Age of Genius’
A. C. Grayling
Does Science Have All the Answers?
Jennifer Hornsby/ James Ladyman/ Eleanor Knox/ Rupert Read
Autism and Minds Wired for Science: Ethical Implications
Simon Baron-Cohen/ John Dupré/ Bonnie Evans/ Bhismadev Chakrabarti
Frantz Fanon and Political Activism
Michael Burns/ Madhu Krishnan/ John Narayan
Emotions: Do They Control Us?
Lisa Bortolotti/ Giovanna Colombetti/ Benedetto De Martino
Will Machines Rule the World?
Kate Devlin/ Mateja Jamnik/ Huw Price/ Mark Sprevak
Is Political Violence Ever Justified?
Maeve Cooke/ Kimberley Hutchings
How (Not) to Make Everyone Better Off
Anna Mahtani
Knowledge in the Cloud
Adam Carter/ Katalin Farkas
A Right to Migrate?
Chris Bertram/ Emily Dugan/ Matthew Gibney/ Madeleine Sumption
The Nature of Memory: Perspectives from Art, History and Neuroscience
Jessica Bland/Adam Roberts/ Sebastian Groes/ Barry C Smith/ Hugo Spiers
The Folly of Crowds?
Peter Ayton/ Sepideh Bazazi/ Chris Frith/ Bahador Bahrami
International Cooperation and Climate Change
Alina Averchenkova/ John Broome/ Robyn Eckersley/ Fergus Green/ Katie Steele
Are We Stewards of the Earth?
Jennifer Gabrys/ Simon James
On Free Speech
Lisa Appignanesi/ Rae Langton/ Stephen Law/ Peter McDonald/ Peter Dennis
Belief and Evidence
Clayton Littlejohn/ Daniel Weiss
The Good Life
Amber Carpenter/ Josh Cohen/ Edward Skidelsky/ Danielle Sands
Is Politics Based on Morality?
Fabienne Peter/ Catherine Rowett/ Stephen de Wijze/ Geoffrey Hawthorn
Gender and the Brain
John Dupré/ Gina Rippon
Reconnecting Europe
Bridging the Gap between European Citizens and European Institutions
On Civil Disobedience
Kimberley Brownlee/ Nick Bunnin
LSE Literary Festival 2015: Foundations
The ‘Novel of Ideas’/ The Human Age/ The Soul of the Marionette
On Informed Consent
Onora O’Neill/ Jonathan Wolff
On Truth
Simon Blackburn/ Pascal Engel/ Peter Dennis
What Is Rationality, Anyway?
Peter Dennis/ Jonathan Birch
Ethics Matters in Climate Change
John Broome/ Gabriel Wollner
On Progress and Human Development
Paul Anand/ Catherine Audard/ Jonathan Wolff/ Gabriel Wollner
Ethics Matters in the Family
Adam Swift/ Gabriel Wollner
Food Policy: Ethics for Your Kitchen and Beyond
Luc Bovens/ Elena Rivilla Lutterkort/ Duncan Williamson/ Joe Mazor
Do We Need to Shake Up the Social Sciences?
Nicholas Christakis/ Patrick Dunleavy/ Amanda Goodall/ Andrew Oswald/ Siobhan Benita
Rationality and Irrationality in Government
Cass Sunstein/ Tali Sharot
The Evolution of Culture in Monkeys, Apes and Humans
Jonathan Birch/ Andrew Whiten/ Bryan Roberts
On Making a Difference and Choosing a Career
William MacAskill/ Gabriel Wollner
On Sexual Difference: Thinking with Catherine Malabou
Catherine Malabou/ Michael O’Rourke/ Danielle Sands/ Simon Glendinning
Wise Choices
Maria Alvarez/ Lisa Bortolotti/ Christian List/ Magda Osman/ Katie Steele
Poverty, Justice and Development
David Hulme/ Thomas Pogge/ Catherine Audard
Safeguards of a Disunified Mind
Wlodek Rabinowicz/ Juliana Cardinale
On the Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in Science
Bryan Roberts/ Mairi Sakellariadou/ Eleanor Knox
LSE Literary Festival 2014: Reflections
Understanding the World: Religious and Secular Perspectives
On Exploitation
Hillel Steiner/ Nicholas Vrousalis/ Gabriel Wollner
Ethics Matters in War
Cecile Fabre/ Jeff McMahan/ Gabriel Wollner
Philosophy, the Public, and Other Subjects
Simon Glendinning
Justice in Finance
Gabriel Wollner/ Bryan Roberts
The Ethics of ‘Nudge’
George Loewenstein/ Samuel Nguyen/ Drazen Prelec/ Luc Bovens
The Ethics of the Cognitive Sciences
A series of events in which we invite speakers from different disciplines to discuss various ethical issues raised by recent developments in the cognitive sciences.
Measuring Happiness?
Paul Dolan/ Elaine Fox/ Andrew Oswald/ Ben Page
The Open Society as an Enemy
Jason McKenzie Alexander/ Tali Sharot
Climate Justice vis-à-vis Global Justice
Katie Steele/ Gabriel Wollner
Virtue Ethics
Brad Hooker/ Constantine Sandis/ Simon Glendinning
The Nature of Existence
Tim Crane/ Danielle Sands
Philosophical Biography and Autobiographical Philosophy
Ray Monk/ Stephen Mulhall/ Simon Glendinning
On Philippa Foot
Sarah Broadie/ Alex Voorhoeve/ Kristina Musholt
Green Philosophy
Rupert Read/ Roger Scruton/ Simon Glendinning
Sartre on the Transcendental I
Joel Smith/ Kristina Musholt
Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking
Daniel Dennett/ Christian List
Synchronic and Diachronic Responsibility
Andrew Khoury/ Kristina Musholt
On Beauty
John Hyman/ Elisabeth Schellekens/ Simon Glendinning
The Philosophy of Mental Illness
Matthew Broome/ Bonnie Evans/ Tim Thornton/ Kristina Musholt
The Pursuit of Adventure
Hilary Lawson/ Steven Rose/ Barry Smith/ Lisa Appignanesi
The Power of Lies
Hilary Lawson/ Parashkev Nachev/ Jamie Whyte/ Joanna Kavenna
Is Multiculturalism Dead?
Cécile Laborde/ Tariq Modood/ Anne Phillips/ Catherine Audard
Why Painting Matters
David Ferris/ Jonathan Lahey Dronsfield
John Locke and European Philosophy
Etienne Balibar/ Quassim Cassam/ Stella Sandford
Beyond Truth: Error and Adventure
Hilary Lawson/ Simon Glendinning
New Media and the Future of Literacy: LSE Literary Festival 2013
Miranda Glover/ Charles Leadbeater/ Sam Riviere/ Ellen Helsper
The Silence of Animals: LSE Literary Fesitval
John Gray/ George Gaskell
Philosophy by Podcast: LSE Literary Festival 2013
David Edmonds/ Nigel Warburton/ Kristina Musholt
Natural-Born Cyborgs? Reflections on Bodies, Minds, and Human Enhancement
Andy Clark/ Kristina Musholt
On Shame
Phil Hutchinson/ Vasudevi Reddy/ Jonathan Webber/ Kristina Musholt
On Humour
Julian Baggini/ Hardeep Singh Kohli/ Simon Glendinning
On Responsibility and Justice
Emily McTernan/ Kristina Musholt
The Case for the Permissibility of Male Infant Circumcision
Joseph Mazor/ Kristina Musholt
How to Watch the Olympics
David Goldblat/ Simon Glendinning
Philosophy and European Union
Simon Glendinning/ Kristina Musholt
Republicanism, Representation and Demoi-cracy in the EU
Richard Bellamy/ Simon Glendinning
Freud on Translation
Robert J. C. Young/ Simon Glendinning
Immortality
Stephen Cave/ John Gray
Singing Neanderthals? The Evolution of Music and Language
Steven Mithen/ Kristina Musholt
Hayek on the Wisdom of Prices
Richard Bronk/ Kristina Musholt
On Guilt
Robert Eaglestone/ Edward Harcourt
Genesis: The Origins of Humanity
Ruth Mace/ Catherine Rowett/ Volker Sommer
The notion of ‘Innate Right’ in Kant’s Doctrine of Right
Katrin Flikschuh/ Simon Glendinning
Re-Thinking Alienation
Rahel Jaeggi/ Kristina Musholt
Travelling the Known and the Unknown: How Literature and Photography Change the World We See
Horatio Clare/ Alex Gillespie / Abigail King
Poetry Unites
Phillip Gross/ Sarah Salway/ Ewa Zadrzynska
Europe’s Unemployment
Luc Bovens/ Marco Simoni/ İnsan Tunali
On Friendship
Mark Vernon/ Simon Glendinning
Neuroscience, Responsibility and the Law
Roger Brownsword/ Neil Levy/ Sir Michael Rutter
Freedom of Speech on Campus
Nicola Dandridge/ Sue Mendus/ Janet Hartley
Religion for Atheists
Alain de Botton/ Simon Glendinning
Beyond the Eye of the Beholder
Guy Dammann/ Simon Glendinning
The Bodhisattva’s Brain: Buddhism Naturalized
Owen Flanagan/ Kristina Musholt
Rules and Representations: Desire from an Evolutionary Point of View
Armin Schulz/ Ben Ferguson
On Love
David Bell/ Simon May/ Kristina Musholt
Democracy in the Workplace
Axel Gosseries/ Paul Loach/ Jonathan White
The Evolution of Morality
Jason McKenzie Alexander/ Keith Jensen/ Andrew Pinsent/ Kristina Musholt
Europe’s Nation States
John Breuilly/ Sir Francis Jacobs/ Umut Özkirimli/ Simon Glendinning
Predicting If Your Policy Will Work for You: Doing It Better
Nancy Cartwright/ Ian Hunt
Europe’s Banking System
Philip Goodchild/ Şevket Pamuk/ Waltraud Schelkle/ Simon Glendinning
Chaos, Unpredictability and the Evolution of Mathematical Ideas
Paul Glendinning/ Charlotte Werndl/ Simon Glendinning
Extended Selves
Katalin Farkas/ Kristina Musholt
Architecture and Happiness
Ben Rogers/ Roger Scruton/ Simon Glendinning/ William Arthurs
