We had some minor technical difficulties with the livestream of the Climate Modelling Conference this morning. Everything should be working now, if you go to the videos page on the website, and refresh the page. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Climate Change: What is to be done? A public panel discussion - Oct 23 We invite you to join us for a free public panel discussion tonight, Thursday, October 23, 2014 titled Climate Change: What is to be done? The panel will be held in 1200 Spencer Engineering Building on Western University's campus [...]
The first in this year's Library Lectures, co-sponsored by the Department of Philosophy and the London Public Library, has just been added to our YouTube channel. Check out the next lecture in the series in person tonight, October 15, at 7pm at the London Public Library (Central Branch): Gillian Barker - Ecological Thinking about Climate [...]
The deadline date to register for the upcoming Annual Rotman Institute Conference has been extended to October 17, 2014.Registration for Knowledge and Models in Climate Science: Philosophical, Historical, and Scientific Perspectives, which is from October 24-26 in London, Ontario is here.Note that the draft program for the conference is now available on the site. It [...]
There is now an easier way to register for the Annual Conference on Knowledge and Models in Climate Science. The new registration includes the ability to fill out the form and pay for the conference online.We're also pleased to announce that registration is now free for all undergraduate and graduate students, though there is still [...]
New findings from Western University suggest that characterizing anorexia, or anorexia nervosa, as a 'passion' will yield immediate and practical results in terms of treatment and therapy.The study, led by Louis C. Charland of Western's Rotman Institute of Philosophy, is novel in that philosophers have collaborated with psychiatrists, scientists and clinicians to arrive at this [...]
[Update: Logistics information can be found here, more info coming soon] [Update: Abstract submissions due August 22, 2014] We are delighted to announce that the Rotman Institute of Philosophy will host its second annual conference, Knowledge and Models in Climate Science, on Oct. 24-26, 2014. The conference will bring together researchers to discuss the [...]
Rotman Canada Research Chair at Western, Stathis Psillos, spoke as part of the Lives of Evidence series of lectures put on by Situating Science. A recording of his talk, From the 'Bankruptcy of Science' to the 'Death of Evidence': Science and its Value, is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ichALemSCFE.
The Rotman Institute welcomes five new postdoctoral fellows in Fall 2013. You can review their profiles below. Rachael Brown Robert Foley Dan Hicks Keizo Matsubara Kerry McKenzie
“In a modern world where we can travel the globe in hours, connect with one another from wherever we are, achieve remarkable advances in healthcare and physically explore our universe, it is easy to take science for granted,” said Carl Hoefer, the new Director of the Rotman Institute of Philosophy. “But it is essential that [...]
