New Video Added: Gillian Barker – Ecological Thinking About Climate Change: A New Paradigm?
Gillian Barker gave this talk as part of the series co-sponsored by the Department of Philosophy, and the London Public Library.
New video posted: Wayne Myrvold – What do you bring to a street fight?
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 [...]
Future Approaches for Philosophy of Biology
The Calgary Summit of Philosophers of Science hosted by the Department of Philosophy at the University of Calgary is quickly approaching. This meeting of philosophers of biology from throughout Canada will be focused on Future Approaches for Philosophy of Biology. In addition to a series of discussions, the Summit will also include something relatively new to [...]
Call for Abstracts: Knowledge and Models in Climate Science: Philosophical, Historical, and Scientific Perspectives
[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 [...]
New video: Rotman Institute Lecturer Bas van Fraassen, “The Semantic Approach to Science, After 50 Years”
What is a scientific theory? How does it get empirical meaning? What are its linguistic status and formal characteristics? 50 years ago, the advent of the semantic view of scientific theory marked a departure from the 'received view' or syntactic approach, according to which a theory is given by a system of axioms (definitions and [...]
Douglas Kutach: Influencing The Past March 26th
Rotman's Visiting Fellow, Dr. Douglas Kutach will be presenting a talk on March 26th at 1:30-3:00pm in Somerville House room 3355. For his final talk in his three part series, he will be speaking about Influencing The Past. Further information on Douglas Kutach can be found here: http://sagaciousmatter.org/ Abstract In the final installment of this [...]
The Metaphysics Of Causation, Solved
Join us next Wednesday March 5th at 1:30pm in University College room 287 for a talk by our Visiting Fellow, Douglas Kutach. The Metaphysics Of Causation, Solved In order to illustrate how Empirical Fundamentalism works in practice, I conduct an empirical analysis of causation. The result I present constitutes a comprehensive metaphysics of causation. I [...]
Stathis Psillos’ talk now online
Dr. Stathis Psillos' talk, 'Revisiting 'the Bankruptcy of Science' Debate' is now available on our youtube page. Click here for the video
Talking about GMOs at AAAS
This past weekend, I [Rotman Postdoc Dan Hicks] attended the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science [AAAS] in Chicago. I presented a poster discussing my current work, on the controversy over genetically modified foods, and was interviewed with a writer at ScienceNOW, the news blog at Science/AAAS. Check out the [...]
Rotman Summer Institute 2014
Causal Powers in Science: Blending Historical and Conceptual Perspectives Each year the Rotman Summer Institute brings graduate students together with exceptional faculty from around the world to focus on a topic of special interest where philosophy and science meet and interact. This year’s Institute brings together philosophers of science and metaphysicians with historians of philosophy [...]