Speakers: Benajmin Chin-Yee & Lisa Vandeberg
Title: Communicating Early Cancer: How Narratives and Pathology Reports Shape Risk Perception and Treatment Decisions
01/04/2026, 10:00 AM - 11:30 PM ET
Event Details: UWO Event Page

Speaker: Kathryn Plaisance, University of Waterloo
Title: What are the Benefits of Philosophy-STEM Collaborations & What Makes Them Work? Empirical Insights from Scientists & Engineers
09/02/2026, 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM ET
Event Details: UWO Event Page

Speaker: Ken Waters, University of Calgary
Title: Using Experimental Models to Investigate How Agency Can Arise and Evolve
24/10/2025, 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM ET

Speaker: Regina Rini, York University
Title: A Mirage of a Trustless Society
11/08/2025, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM ET

Speaker: Eric Hochstein, University of Victoria
Title: Why Pan Pancomputationalism?
06/08/2025, 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM ET

Speaker: Cameron Bruckner
Title: LLMs as Models of Reasoning
05/08/2025, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM ET

Speaker: Lauren Olin
Title: Housing Mirth
22/07/2025, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM ET

Speaker: Francesca Vidotto, Western University
Title: Quantum Gravity: Bringing it Down to Earth. The Search for Quantum Gravity from Distant Black Holes to Labratories on Earth
03/04/2025, 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM ET

Speaker: William J. Turkel, Western University
Title: On Generative Artificial Intelligence & Historiography
27/03/2025, 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM ET

Speaker: Chris Letheby, University of Western Australia
Title: Merely Believing and Really Believing: Mental Imagery in Personal Transformation
26/03/2025, 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM ET

Speaker: Carlo Rovelli, University of Aix-Marseille
Title: Come with Me Inside a Black Hole
30/01/2025, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM ET
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Speaker: Neil Sinhababu, National University of Singapore
Title: Pleasure Fundamentalism
11/09/2024, 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM ET
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Speaker: Charles Ling, Western University
Title: Turing Test, Chinese Room, AGI, and GPTs
26/03/2024, 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM ET

Speaker: Berna Devezer, University of Idaho
Title: Theoretical Insights on Replication: A Mirarcle or a Crutch
01/12/2023, 11:30 AM - 3:30 PM ET

Speaker: Nancy Nersessian, Georgia Institute of Technology
Title: Interdisciplinarity in the Making: Models and Methods in Frontier Science
17/11/2023, 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM ET
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Speaker: John Bickle, Mississippi State University
Title: Unnoticed Feautures of Exploratory Expirements from the 60-Year History of the N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) Receptor
15/09/2023, 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM ET
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Speaker: Hasok Chang, University of Cambridge
Title: Realism for Realistic People
26/05/2023, 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM ET
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Speaker: Patrick Fafard, University of Ottawa
Title: Is Science Enough? Science Advice, Health Essentialism, and Pandemic Decision-Making
26/05/2023, 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM ET

Speaker: Shobita Parthsarathy, University of Michigan
Title: Can a Toilet Save the World? How Tech for Good Initiatives are Shaping Political Orders
30/03/2023, 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM ET

Speaker: Paul Bloom, University of Toronto
Title: Perverse Actions
19/01/2023, 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM ET
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Speaker: Liz Schechter, University of Maryland
Title: Conscious Agency After Split-Brain Surgery
2/12/2022, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM ET

Speaker: Nicole Nelson, University of Wisconsin
Title: Is Animal Behavior Genetics Reductionist? Discrepant Viewpoints and Knowledge Asymmetries
18/11/2022, 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM ET
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Speaker: James Wilson, University College London
Title: What makes a health system good? From cost-effectiveness analysis to ethical optimisation in health systems
23/09/2022, 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM ET
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Speaker: Ann-Sophie Barwich, Indiana University Bloomington
Title: The Cinderella of the Senses: Smell as a Window into Mind and Brain
07/04/2022, 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM ET
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Speaker: Ann-Sophie Barwich, Indiana University Bloomington
Title: How Biology Perceives Chemistry: A Causal Analysis of the Stimulus in Olfaction and its Implications for Scientific and Philosophical Theorizing
06/04/2022, 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM ET

Speaker: Stefan Linquist, University of Guelph
Title: Genome-Level Ecology
25/03/2022, 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM ET

Speaker: Massimiliano Simons, Ghent University 
Title: Snythetic Biology as a Technoscience
11/01/2022, 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM ET