Deborah Fox, Author at The Rotman Institute of Philosophy

Additional Videos Posted to the Rethinking the Taxonomy of Psychology Playlist

Additional Videos Posted to the Rethinking the Taxonomy of Psychology Playlist

Videos of three talks have been added to the Rethinking the Taxonomy of Psychology playlist on the Rotman Institute YouTube Channel -- Lisa Saksida, Muhammed Ali Khalidi, and Owen Whooley. Further talks will be available soon. Lisa Saksida: Cognition and the ventral visual-perirhinal-hippocampal stream [embedyt] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFCO0DjFgsk[/embedyt] Muhammad Ali Khalidi: Crosscutting Psychoneural Kinds: Some Lessons from [...]

Deborah Fox2016-05-03T09:14:50-04:00May 3rd, 2016|Events, Philosophy of Neuroscience|

April 2016 Member News & Updates

April 2016 Member News & Updates

In our April monthly digest, we're very excited to share job news of some of our members. Tommaso Bruni accepted a position as a Research Associate in the Wellcome Trust funded project “Towards a Humanitarian Research Ethics” at King's College London. Molly Kao accepted a position as Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at [...]

Deborah Fox2021-06-24T14:25:17-04:00April 29th, 2016|Members|

Rethinking the Taxonomy of Psychology Video Playlist Created on the Rotman YouTube Channel

Rethinking the Taxonomy of Psychology Video Playlist Created on the Rotman YouTube Channel

The Rotman 2016 Annual Conference: Rethinking the Taxonomy of Psychology was held on April 15 - 17, 2016, in London, Ontario. Advances in cognitive neuroscience, including neuroimaging techniques, have challenged the conceptual foundations of psychology. Participants in this interdisciplinary workshop investigated questions at the intersection of philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience raised by the emerging data [...]

Deborah Fox2016-04-26T11:01:24-04:00April 26th, 2016|Events, Philosophy of Neuroscience|

Grant Awarded for Philosophy of Cosmology

Grant Awarded for Philosophy of Cosmology

Rotman Director, Chris Smeenk, was recently awarded a $205,000 grant from the John Templeton Foundation to pursue research on the philosophy of cosmology. Smeenk will serve as principal investigator, along with co-investigators Jim Weatherall and John Manchak, both from the Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science at UC Irvine. Physical cosmology has made enormous [...]

Deborah Fox2016-04-25T10:14:36-04:00April 25th, 2016|Philosophy of Cosmology, Rotman News|

Upcoming conferences co-sponsored by the Rotman Institute

Over the next few months, there will be four conferences held here in London that are co-sponsored by the Rotman Institute of Philosophy. Note that registration for a couple of these conferences is currently open. Further information can be found on our event pages, or on the respective conference websites. Computationally Assisted Mathematical Discovery and [...]

Deborah Fox2016-04-19T14:57:51-04:00April 18th, 2016|Events, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Neuroscience, Philosophy of Physics|

Video Posting — Carl Craver: Memory, Time and Agency & Ontic Basis of Network Explanation

Video Posting — Carl Craver: Memory, Time and Agency & Ontic Basis of Network Explanation

Carl Craver, of Washington University in St. Louis, recently delivered two talks at the Rotman Institute, co-sponsored by Western's Brain and Mind Institute, as part of our yearly neurophilosophy speaker series. The first talk, entitled Memory, Time and Agency, was an examination of how individuals with episodic amnesia make future-oriented decisions. The second talk, Ontic [...]

Deborah Fox2016-04-12T11:51:49-04:00April 12th, 2016|Events, Philosophy of Neuroscience, Philosophy of Science|

The Brain Boom: How Neuroscience is Changing How We Understand Ourselves

The Brain Boom: How Neuroscience is Changing How We Understand Ourselves

We are in the midst of a “Brain Boom,” with enormous research effort and funding devoted to studying the workings of the human brain based on new technologies. The field is at a stage like genomics prior to the Human Genome Project, with initatives such as the US Brain Initative just starting and the potential [...]

Deborah Fox2016-04-11T13:18:58-04:00April 11th, 2016|Brain Boom|

Upcoming OIRM event, Stem Cells 101, featuring Carolyn McLeod

Upcoming OIRM event, Stem Cells 101, featuring Carolyn McLeod

In two weeks, the Ontario Institute for Regenerative Medicine (OIRM), is hosting a free, public event on stem cells -- in partnership with Western University. One of the featured panelists is Rotman faculty member, Carolyn McLeod, who will be delivering a talk entitled, "The Ethics of Stem Cell Research". Stem Cells 101: The Promise and [...]

Deborah Fox2016-04-06T09:57:34-04:00April 6th, 2016|Biomedical Ethics, Events|

Physician Assisted Death: Challenges for Social Policy in Canada

Physician Assisted Death: Challenges for Social Policy in Canada

by Cory Goldstein On February 6, 2015, the Supreme Court of Canada declared in Carter v. Canada (Attorney General) that the prohibition of physician assisted death—section 14 and section 241(b) of the Criminal Code—is unconstitutional1. The Court stated that the prohibition was deemed to infringe on the rights of individuals under section 7 of the [...]

Deborah Fox2016-04-05T10:05:11-04:00April 5th, 2016|Biomedical Ethics, Philosophy of Ethics, Science and Society|

Food for Thought

Food for Thought

by Justin Bzovy On February 25th we had Evan Fraser, a Canada Research Chair in Global Food Security at the University of Guelph, as our Rotman speaker. Fraser gave a talk on Food in 2050: The Challenge of Feeding 9 Billion. I had a chance to sit and talk with him about his interdisciplinary approach [...]

Deborah Fox2016-04-01T11:22:06-04:00April 1st, 2016|Food Ethics, Philosophy of Ethics, Science and Society|

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