Research Students

• s.j.beard@lse.ac.uk

Philosophy of Economics, in particular its ontology, methods and models.

• j.bjorheim@lse.ac.uk

Research Interests: Philosophy of Medicine, especially Evidence-Based Medicine and Evidence Hierarchies; Pseudoscience and 'Alternative' Medicine.

MPhil in HPS at Cambridge (2011); BSc in Philosophy at LSE (2010).

PhD (2008-): Scientific uncertainty and decision making

Areas of interest: Philosophy of Science esp. physics. Models and simulations in science. Climate science. Decision theory, esp. "imprecise credence" models. Philosophy of Maths. Epistemology.

Hobbies: photography, juggling, typography, computers

• S.C.Bradley@lse.ac.uk
• http://www.seamusbradley.net

Susanne (PhD 2010-) obtained a B.A. in Economics from the University of St. Gallen (Switzerland) in 2009, and completed an MSc in Economics & Philosophy at the LSE in 2010. Her areas of interests include philosophical methodology, moral epistemology, and normative ethics.

• s.burri@lse.ac.uk

Chlump obtained his BA in Economics (summa cum laude, with departmental honors) from Northwestern University in 2004. After working for several years as a strategy consultant, he obtained his MA in Philosophy from NYU in 2010. Now at the LSE, he finds himself once again very clearly a game theorist.

The aim of his dissertation is to develop a consistent, robust, and sensible solution concept for noncooperative games that can serve as an alternative to the standard solution concepts and ultimately as a new foundation for game theory.

Areas of interest: game theory, logic, mathematics.

• c.g.chatkupt@lse.ac.uk

Mareile obtained her BA in Economics from the University of Cambridge in 2004 and her MA in Finance from the University of Freiburg in 2006 before joining the LSE to study Philosophy of the Social Sciences. Mareile's main research interests are decision and choice theory, bounded rationality and epistemic logic.

• m.drechsler@lse.ac.uk

PhD (2009-): A Theory of Exploitation. Ben received his BS in Economics and Philosophy in 2006 from Creighton University (USA) and his MSc in Philosophy of the Social Sciences from the LSE in 2008. His thesis focuses on the development of a theory of exploitation within a bargaining framework.

Areas of interest: philosophy of economics, moral and political philosophy, philosophical methodology.

• B.R.Ferguson@lse.ac.uk

• a.m.goldfinch@lse.ac.uk

• j.r.himmelreich@lse.ac.uk

• h.hong3@lse.ac.uk

• i.g.hunt@lse.ac.uk

• s.larski@lse.ac.uk

PhD (2004-): Experimentation and institutional design in political science and economics.

Areas of interest: Philosophy of economics, political science and social science. Political philosophy and Political Theory.

• f.morett@lse.ac.uk
• http://personal.lse.ac.uk/Morett

PhD (2008-): My PhD thesis concerns the problem of reconciling the traditional, normative conception of epistemology with the programme of 'naturalised epistemology'.

Areas of interest: general philosophy of science/epistemology, philosophy of biology, meta-ethics.

• D.D.Peters@lse.ac.uk

• r.w.runhardt@lse.ac.uk

Esha obtained bachelors' degrees in Philosophy (Honors BA) and in Economics (Comprehensive BA w/ Honors minor focused on Economic Development) in May 2005 from Swarthmore College (Pennsylvania, USA). In 2007 she completed an MSc in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences from the London School of Economics. Her MSc dissertation explored tensions between social practices and transcendental models of universal moral justification. Esha is currently a doctoral student at the LSE's Department of Philosophy, Logic & Scientific Method and contributes to the Visitor's Programme at the Centre for the Philosophy of Natural and Social Sciences. Her research interests include deliberative and epistemic democracy, social choice theory and methods of justification for collective decision-making.

• E.P.Senchaudhuri@lse.ac.uk

PhD (2010-): Decision theory and non-consequentialist motivations.

Areas of interest: Philosophy of economics and related subjects, such as decision theory, public policy, moral philosophy, philosophy of probability and philosophy of social science in general.

MSc in Philosophy and Public Policy from LSE (2009); BA in Philosophy from the University of Iceland (2008).

• H.O.Stefansson@lse.ac.uk

Research Interests: General Philosophy of Science and Philosophy of Physics. I'm particularly interested in the problems of confirmation and trustworthiness of chaotic models; computer simulations in science and the notions of randomness and unpredictability, especially in the context of chaotic systems.
 
MSc, Kings College London (2007); BSc, London School of Economics (2005)

• A.J.Talman@lse.ac.uk
• http://www.aarnetalman.com

Stuart's research focuses on philosophical problems in financial models and financial markets, and philosophy of social science generally. His interests range from problems of induction in time series analysis used in financial models to the ontological status of market prices.

• s.p.theobald@lse.ac.uk

Chris completed degrees in biochemistry and philosophy at the University of Otago (New Zealand).  He worked as a policy analyst/advisor in both the New Zealand and UK civil service for a number of years before going on to complete an MA in philosophy at King's College London.  Chris has interests in political philosophy and philosophy of science and his PhD research is on epistemic democracy.

• C.J.Thompson@lse.ac.uk

• a.vincenti@lse.ac.uk

• a.p.white@lse.ac.uk