Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science (CPNSS) is an interdisciplinary research centre into philosophical

Philosophy of science

The philosophy of science is concerned with the assumptions, foundations, methods and implications of science. It is also concerned with the use and merit of science and sometimes overlaps metaphysics and epistemology by exploring whether scientific results are actually a study of truth...

, methodological

Scientific method

Scientific method refers to a body of techniques for investigating phenomena, acquiring new knowledge, or correcting and integrating previous knowledge. To be termed scientific, a method of inquiry must be based on gathering empirical and measurable evidence subject to specific principles of...

 and foundational

Theory of justification

Theory of justification is a part of epistemology that attempts to understand the justification of propositions and beliefs. Epistemologists are concerned with various epistemic features of belief, which include the ideas of justification, warrant, rationality, and probability...

 questions in the natural

Natural science

The natural sciences are branches of science that seek to elucidate the rules that govern the natural world by using empirical and scientific methods...

 and the social sciences

Philosophy of social science

The philosophy of social science is the study of the logic and method of the social sciences, such as sociology, anthropology and political science...

 at the London School of Economics

London School of Economics

The London School of Economics and Political Science is a public research university specialised in the social sciences located in London, United Kingdom, and a constituent college of the federal University of London...

. It is located in the Lakatos Building.

The Centre supports interdisciplinary and inter-institutional collaborative scholarship through seminar series, public lectures, conferences and workshops. It is home to various research projects that bringing together academics and to international research visitors that pursue their own individual research. The Centre also hosts regular meetings of the British Society for the Philosophy of Science.

Its current director is professor Rom Harré.

Other academics and researchers associated with the CPNSS are

• Nancy Cartwright
  Nancy Cartwright (philosopher)
  Nancy Cartwright FBA is a professor of philosophy at the London School of Economics and the University of California at San Diego, and a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship...
  
   (Former Director)
• Helena Cronin
  Helena Cronin
  Dr. Helena Cronin is a noted Darwinian philosopher and rationalist. She is the co-director of the CPNSS and the Darwin Centre at the London School of Economics...
  
   (Co-Director)
• John Worrall
  John Worrall (philosopher)
  John Worrall is a professor of philosophy of science at the London School of Economics. He is also associated with the Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science at the same institution....
  
  
• Nicholas Humphrey
  Nicholas Humphrey
  Professor Nicholas Keynes Humphrey is an English psychologist, based in Cambridge, who is known for his work on the evolution of human intelligence and consciousness. His interests are wide ranging...
  
  
• John Dupré
  John Dupré
  John Dupré is a professional philosopher of science. He is the director of the ESRC Centre for Genomics in Society and professor of philosophy at the University of Exeter. Dupré was educated at the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge and taught at Oxford, Stanford University and...
  
  
• Meghnad Desai

External links

CPNSS homepage

CPNSS Discussion papers