2026-02-25
1 小时 31 分钟Welcome to the LSE events podcast by the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Get ready to hear from some of the most influential international figures in the social sciences.
as a kind of collaboration between a few different organizations.
The Department of Philosophy at the London School of Economics, where I work,
which is a department that has a long and illustrious history in the philosophy of science,
having been founded by Karl Popper in 1946,
and which continues to be known
for pursuing a kind of philosophy that's continuous with the natural sciences.
And the event is also organized by the British Society for the Philosophy of Science,
which is a professional society for philosophers of science and a charity which aims to promote the philosophy of science in the UK.
And one way in which the society does that is by publishing a journal,
the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science,
arguably the best journal for philosophy of science in the world.
The editors of the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science each year award a prize to the best paper published in the journal,
which is the BJPS Popper Prize.
And the society has decided to commence inviting the winners of that prize to give this Popper Prize lecture.
So in a moment,
I'll introduce the president of the British Society for Philosophy of Science, Robin Hendry,
to say a little bit more about the prize and the paper to which it was awarded this year.
Before that, I'll just briefly introduce our speakers.