[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 [...]
Wayne Myrvold Here's the latest in our series of physicists writing about the value of philosophy: Ivette Fuentes on the interplay between science and philosophy (and also science and the arts!) Science and philosophy share common goals. They aim at developing and deepening our understanding of reality, at uncovering the basic constituents of the Universe [...]
Wayne Myrvold Continuing our series of physicists writing about what they find vaulable in philosophy and in talking to philosophers, here's Lee Smolin. My knowledge of the history and philosophy of physics helps me understand the challenges, frustrations and puzzles I encounter in my research, by putting them in the context of the long history [...]
Wayne Myrvold Continuing our series of physicists talking about why they find philosophy valuable (Part I here), here's Carlo Rovelli. The recent dismissive remarks about philosophy by Neil deGrasse Tyson reopen a debate which I think is worthwhile reopening. Neil deGrasse Tyson is not the only one to consider philosophy useless for science. Many of my [...]
Wayne Myrvold About a month ago, I did a guest post over at New APPS that was prompted by philosophers’ responses to Neil de Grasse Tyson’s dismissive remarks about philosophy. Unsurprisingly, attitudes towards philosophy vary widely among physicists, and there are plenty of physicists who have a much more positive attitude towards philosophy. Some of [...]
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.
I've done a guest post, over at New APPS: What Neil deGrasse Tyson got right. Wayne Myrvold.
On Monday, April 14, 2014, Professor Charlotte Werndl delivered the final lecture in the Rotman Institute of Philosophy Speaker Series. On Sunday, a day before the lecture, she met with members of the Rotman Institute for a walk around the forks of the Themes River in London, Ontario. In the audio file below, she [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
