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CPNSS News

  • Friends of CPNSS
    This new fund raising initiative was launched in March 2011 with an inaugural Lecture by Professor Anthony Grayling. The project looks to provide funding for The Centre’s outreach initiatives. From administrative costs to the necessary overheads to support research, every penny of a Friend’s contribution helps towards The Centre’s highly ambitious intellectual programme. For more [...]
  • New Book
    New book by Christian List and Philip Pettit: Group Agency: The Possibility, Design and Status of Corporate Agents Are companies, churches, and states genuine agents? Or are they just collections of individuals that give a misleading impression of unity? This question is important, since the answer dictates how we should explain the behaviour of these [...]
  • How the blind view art
    Dr Simon Hayhoe, visiting academic in LSE’s Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science, has won a Fulbright All-Disciplines Scholar Award to study blind and visually impaired people’s understanding of paintings in galleries and on the web, as part of a visiting fellowship at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The research project, [...]
  • CPNSS director receives lifetime achievement award
    Professor Rom Harré, director of the Centre for Natural and Social Science at LSE, has been awarded a lifetime achievement award from the American Psychological Association (Division 24). The award, established in 1998, is one of the Association’s highest awards, and recognises one of its members each year for life-time scholarly achievement. Kareen Ror Malone, [...]
  • New book by Professor Rom Harré, Director of the CPNSS
    Pavlov’s Dogs and Schrödinger’s Cat: tales from the living laboratory