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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|

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|

How can there be “emotions” without “emotion”?

How can there be “emotions” without “emotion”?

Rotman faculty member Louis Charland published a blog post yesterday entitled, "Emotions without Emotion: A Challenge for the Neurophilosophy and Neuroscience of Emotion". It was featured on The Neuroethics Blog, hosted by the Center for Ethics, Neuroethics Program at Emory University. In the post, Charland examines the distinction between the terms emotion and cognition, and [...]

Deborah Fox2017-01-03T12:08:10-05:00February 3rd, 2016|Lab Associates, Philosophy of Neuroscience, Projects|

Interview with Michael Anderson

Interview with Michael Anderson

Rotman graduate student, Jessey Wright, conducted the following interview with Professor Michael Anderson -- Visiting Fellow at the Rotman Institute. Professor Michael Anderson is a visiting scholar at the Rotman Institute. Professor Anderson’s work sits at the intersection of psychology, computer science and philosophy. For example, his recent book, After Phrenology: Neural Reuse and the [...]

Deborah Fox2017-01-03T12:08:20-05:00January 28th, 2016|Events, Lab Associates, Philosophy of Neuroscience, Projects|

Video Posting — Hugo Critchley: Interoception, Emotion and Self: How the Heart Gates Feelings and Perceptions

Video Posting — Hugo Critchley: Interoception, Emotion and Self: How the Heart Gates Feelings and Perceptions

Hugo Critchley, of Brighton and Sussex Medical School and Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science, University of Sussex, delivered a lecture on October 15, 2015 entitled, Interoception, Emotion and Self: How the Heart Gates Feelings and Perceptions. Video of this lecture has been posted on the Rotman Institute of Philosophy YouTube channel. Abstract: Information concerning the [...]

Deborah Fox2017-01-03T12:08:42-05:00December 7th, 2015|Events, Lab Associates, Philosophy of Neuroscience, Projects|

Do We Run Because We Are Scared? Or Are We Scared Because We Run?

Do We Run Because We Are Scared? Or Are We Scared Because We Run?

by Dr. Chris Fiacconi We have all had the experience of being in a potentially threatening situation. Your neck tenses, your heart pounds, and your palms sweat. You feel afraid, and try to escape from danger. In other words, you run away because you are scared. However, modern scientific research on how our brains generate [...]

Deborah Fox2017-01-03T12:07:11-05:00October 13th, 2015|Events, Lab Associates, Philosophy of Neuroscience, Projects|

Video Posting — David Chalmers: Spatial Experience and Virtual Reality

Video Posting — David Chalmers: Spatial Experience and Virtual Reality

Video of David Chalmer’s lecture, Spatial Experience and Virtual Reality, has been posted on the Rotman Institute of Philosophy YouTube channel. Do virtual reality devices such as the Oculus Rift produce the illusion of an external reality? Or do they produce non-illusory experiences of a virtual reality? Chalmers addressed this question by starting with an [...]

Deborah Fox2017-01-03T12:07:20-05:00October 8th, 2015|Events, Lab Associates, Philosophy of Neuroscience, Projects|

Ground-breaking Ethical Framework for Functional MRI Research

Ground-breaking Ethical Framework for Functional MRI Research

After severe brain injury, one of the key challenges for medical doctors is to determine the patient’s prognosis. Who will do well? Who will not do well? Physicians need to know this, and families need to know this too, to address choices regarding the continuation of life supporting therapies. However, current prognostication methods are insufficient [...]

robread2016-03-24T10:49:06-04:00September 23rd, 2015|Biomedical Ethics, Philosophy of Neuroscience|

Rotman Meets Rotman

By Frédéric-I. Banville The collaborations between Western’s Brain and Mind Institute (BMI) and the Rotman Institute of Philosophy, in the form of the lab associate program (which places philosophy graduate students in labs at the BMI) and collaborations between researchers (most recently, our postdoctoral fellow Robert Foley co-authored a paper with BMI director Melvyn Goodale [...]

rotmanadmin2021-07-12T13:22:40-04:00April 27th, 2015|Lab Associates, Philosophy of Neuroscience, Projects|