[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 [...]
Check out the article written by Katy Fulfer and Angel Petropanagos for the IJFAB blog: http://www.ijfab.org/blog/does-a-womb-make-you-a-woman/
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.
Productive Disagreement among Motivated Reasoners By Dan Hicks This is part III of a three-part series. This series will be posted simultaneously on Je Fais, Donc Je Suis, my personal blog, as well as the Rotman Institute Blog. In part I of this series, I discussed motivated reasoning, reasoning in which emotions or values play a significant [...]
Alternatives to Antagonism: Ambiguity and Uncertainty By Dan Hicks This is part II of a three-part series. This series will be posted simultaneously on Je Fais, Donc Je Suis, my personal blog, as well as the Rotman Institute Blog. In the first part of this post, I discussed the work of social psychologist Dan Kahan [...]
The Pervasiveness of Motivated Reasoning By Dan Hicks This is part I of a three-part series. This series will be posted simultaneously on Je Fais, Donc Je Suis, my personal blog, as well as the Rotman Institute Blog. Social and political values predict your views on climate change: if you're an egalitarian-communitarian (think: liberal, on the political [...]
By Melissa JacquartThis post concludes our recent string on science and the public interest. The idea for this series was sparked by the Rotman Institute’s Science, Policy, and Philosophy Working Group reading Grischa Metlay’s 2006 paper, "Reconsidering Renormalization: Stability and Change in 20th-Century Views on University Patents”. The previous four blog posts in the series [...]
by Reuven Brandt Science is neither cheap nor easy. One tool used to incentivise investment of both money and effort into scientific research is patent law, which offers temporary monopolies as a reward for new marketable scientific developments. In theory, the profits to be made from patent protection drive innovation by rewarding individuals for turning [...]
By Jessey Wright The notion of public interest, while murky and hard to define, can be a useful tool for isolating the core issues at play in a policy debate. Appreciating what is meant by ‘the public interest’ requires identifying which ‘public’ is being served. The clearest approach is to identify what they mean by [...]
