We are pleased to announce that our Scientific Director, Carl Hoefer (ICREA Research Professor at the University of Barcelona), has won the 2024 Lakatos Award for his book Chance in the World: A Humean Guide to Objective Chance (Oxford University Press, 2019).

The Lakatos Award is given annually for an outstanding contribution to the philosophy of science, widely interpreted, in the form of a book published in English during the current year or the previous five years.

Chance in the World: A Humean Guide to Objective Chance is praised by the selectors of the Lakatos Award as “a terrific book, thorough, detailed, and persuasive”, and as work of which “it’s not hard to see that it will become the sort of book that no one working on the interpretation of probability will be able to ignore”. The book “has succeeded in producing the definitive version of the Lewisian theory of chance”, and it has done so in a way that “leads to a number of interesting and original claims about the relation of macroscopic chances and causes to the micro-world”.

Further information here: https://www.lse.ac.uk/philosophy/blog/2024/08/12/2024-lakatos-award-winner/