Simon Hix is the Harold Laski Professor of Political Science at the London School of Economics. Vincent Chow chats with him about the UK's relationship with the EU post-Brexit, the life of Harold Laski, being a public intellectual and the state of the political centre in Britain today.
Professor Hix is also Director of the LSE Institute of Public Affairs and Fellow of the British Academy as well as Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He has written several books on EU and comparative politics, including "What's Wrong With the EU and How to Fix It" (Polity, 2008). In 2008 he won the prestigious Fenno Prize from the American Political Science Association for his book (co-authored with Abdul Noury and Gerard Roland) "Democratic Politics in the European Parliament" (Cambridge, 2007).
Note: this was recorded before last Sunday's London Marathon, which Simon completed. His fundraising page is still live and can be found here: https://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/fundraiser-display/showROFundraiserPage?userUrl=SimonHixHeadsTogether&pageUrl=1
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Simon Hix is the Harold Laski Professor of Political Science at the London School of Economics. Vincent Chow chats with him about the UK's relationship with the EU post-Brexit, the life of Harold Laski, being a public intellectual and the state of the political centre in Britain today.
Professor Hix is also Director of the LSE Institute of Public Affairs and Fellow of the British Academy as well as Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He has written several books on EU and comparative politics, including "What's Wrong With the EU and How to Fix It" (Polity, 2008). In 2008 he won the prestigious Fenno Prize from the American Political Science Association for his book (co-authored with Abdul Noury and Gerard Roland) "Democratic Politics in the European Parliament" (Cambridge, 2007).
Note: this was recorded before last Sunday's London Marathon, which Simon completed. His fundraising page is still live and can be found here: https://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/fundraiser-display/showROFundraiserPage?userUrl=SimonHixHeadsTogether&pageUrl=1
Climate Change and the Non-Identity Problem - Dr Kai Spiekermann
LSE Office Hours Podcast
19 minutes 56 seconds
7 years ago
Climate Change and the Non-Identity Problem - Dr Kai Spiekermann
In the first episode of the Office Hours podcast, chief editor Vincent Chow speaks to Dr Kai Spiekermann about the Non-Identity Problem, one of the most interesting and trickiest problems in philosophy, and its relevance for the climate change debate.
Dr Spiekermann is Associate Professor of Political Philosophy and the Doctoral Programme Director in the Department of Government at the LSE. Among his research interests are normative and positive political theory, philosophy of the social sciences, social epistemology and environmental change.
Recommendations:
"Reasons and Persons" by Derek Parfit
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Reasons-Persons-Oxford-Paperbacks-Parfit/dp/019824908X
"The Non-Identity Problem | Derek Parfit | EAGxOxford 2016"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtU0pah4R8Q&t=1617s
LSE Office Hours Podcast
Simon Hix is the Harold Laski Professor of Political Science at the London School of Economics. Vincent Chow chats with him about the UK's relationship with the EU post-Brexit, the life of Harold Laski, being a public intellectual and the state of the political centre in Britain today.
Professor Hix is also Director of the LSE Institute of Public Affairs and Fellow of the British Academy as well as Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He has written several books on EU and comparative politics, including "What's Wrong With the EU and How to Fix It" (Polity, 2008). In 2008 he won the prestigious Fenno Prize from the American Political Science Association for his book (co-authored with Abdul Noury and Gerard Roland) "Democratic Politics in the European Parliament" (Cambridge, 2007).
Note: this was recorded before last Sunday's London Marathon, which Simon completed. His fundraising page is still live and can be found here: https://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/fundraiser-display/showROFundraiserPage?userUrl=SimonHixHeadsTogether&pageUrl=1
