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PI: Andrew Richmond, Rotman Institute of Philosophy, Western University
Funding: SSHRC Connection Grant 2025
Summary: This project delivered a nine-day summer school for a cohort of high school students, equipping them with philosophically informed, ethically sensitive, and practically grounded understandings of emerging AI technologies.
Project Leader: Carlo Rovelli, Aix-Marseille University, Rotman Institute of Philosophy
Project Co-Leader: Marios Christodoulou, IQOQI Vienna
Funding: The consortium is supported by the John Templeton foundation (first phase grant: 2019-2022, second phase grant: 2022-2025) and from numerous smaller grants obtained by individual participating research groups.
Summary: QISS is a network of researchers specialising on the foundations of physics. The QISS consortium is composed of fourteen research groups and several affiliates, bringing together 100+ researchers in fundamental physics and computer science. We pioneer interdisciplinary work in Quantum Information and Quantum Gravity and investigate the interface of these disciplines.
Co-PI: Eric Desjardins, Rotman Institute of Philosophy, Western University
Co-PI: John Beatty, University of British Columbia
Funding: SSHRC Insight Grant, 2020-2025
Summary: Three related research projects—Evolutionary Processes, Microbiome Research, Environmental Remediation Technologies—explore the normative dimensions of historical contingency and biological entanglement in various life sciences.
Co-PI: Jacqueline Sullivan, Rotman Institute of Philosophy, Western University
Co-PI: Tim Bussey, PI of TCNLab, Western University
Co-PI: Lisa Saksida, PI of TCNLab, Western University
Funding: Western Strategic Support for Tri-Council Success Grants, 2019-2020; Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Insight Grant, 2020-2023
Summary: A primary aim of the philosophy of neuroscience is to understand how neuroscience works. A common strategy is to evaluate methodological and review papers and research studies to develop such understanding. However, this approach sheds little light on the intricate inner workings of the science that occur in the contexts of laboratories, lab meetings, journal clubs, and informal conversations between primary investigators, postdoctoral fellows, and science students working within the same lab or working with researchers in other laboratories. The overarching aim of Dr. Sullivan’s project “The Philosophy of Neuroscience in Practice” is to illuminate these foundational activities by engaging as a participant-observer in a cutting-edge translational cognitive neuroscience laboratory at Western University.
Co-PI: Chris Smeenk, Rotman Institute of Philosophy, Western University
Co-PI: James Owen Weatherall, University of California, Irvine
Funding: John Templeton Foundation, 2015-2021
Summary: The principal goal of this project is to articulate and scrutinize the philosophical commitments behind cosmology’s Standard Model.
Project Website: https://www.philcosmo.uwo.ca/