This year’s Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences will take place on May 27 – June 2 at Ryerson University in Toronto. Rotman Institute members will be participating in numerous sessions throughout the congress. If you’re attending this year’s congress, we invite you to attend these sessions and learn about some of the exciting philosophical work being done by our members.
Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Mathematics (CSHPM)
Sunday, May 28
| Philippos Papayannopoulos | The Open Texture of ‘Real Number Algorithms’ |
Tuesday, May 30
| Valerie L. Therrien | The Axiom of Choice as Paradigm Shift: The Case for the Distinction between the Ontological and the Methodological Crisis in the Foundations of Mathematics |
Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science (CSHPS)
Saturday, May 27
| Adam Woodcox | Aristotle on the Causes and Limits of Aging |
| Jody Tomchishen | Giving Up On Natural Kinds |
| Lucas Dunlap | Naturalized Metaphysics and Fundamental Physics |
| Catherine Stinson | Abstract Mechanisms and Causal Powers (presented with Boris Hennig) |
Sunday, May 28
| Jessey Wright | Interpretations of Neuroimaging Data as Explanations of Data Patterns |
| John Jenkinson | Fleshing Out Agency and Body Ownership |
| Fermin C Fulda | Being Natural: Three Grades of Naturalistic Involvement |
| Marie Gueguen | The possibility of paraparticles |
| Chris Smeenk | Confirming QED |
Monday, May 29
| Jamie Shaw | The Historical Turn and the ‘Fact’ of Pluralism |
| Justin Bzovy | Clines, Demes and Species: An Overlooked Source for Scientific Pluralism |
| Eric Desjardins | Novel Ecosystems: Do they Really Lower the Bar? |
| Justin Donhauser | Informative Ecological Models without General Ecological Forces: a reply to Sagoff (2016) |
| Yousuf Hasan | Quine’s Flight from Analyticity |
| Erlantz Etxeberria | Monistic Account of Explanations and Explanatory Depth |
Canadian Society for the Study of Practical Ethics (CSSPE)
Thursday, June 1
| Anthony Skelton & Lisa Forsberg | Adolescent capacity to refuse life prolonging medical intervention and transformative experience |
Canadian Philosophical Association (CPA)
Sunday, May 28
| Anthony Skelton | Patricia Marino’s Moral Reasoning in a Pluralistic World (Author-Meets-Critics) |
| Michael Korngut | Plato’s Pains of Self-Ignorance |
| Adam Woodcox | The Hunt for Definitions: Posterior Analytics B 13 |
| Chris Viger | A Small-world Look at Dual-process Theory |
| John Thorp | A New Problem for the Unity of Substance in Aristotle |
Monday, May 29
| Matthew Howery | Saving the Pessimistic Induction |
| Angela Mendelovici | The Natures and Characters of Intentional States and Content |
| Anthony Skelton & Lisa Forsberg | On Adolescent Refusals of Life- Prolonging Medical Treatment |
Tuesday, May 30
| Samantha Brennan | Carrie Jenkin’s What Love Is: And What It Could Be (Author-Meets-Critics) – Session Organizer & Chair |
| John Jenkinson | Structural Flexibility in Enactive Cognition |
Wednesday, May 31
| Gillian Barker & Fred Banville | Knowledge in Nonhuman Species: The Epistemic Levers Hypothesis (Symposium) |
| Samantha Brennan | Gender and the Politics of Cyberspace (Joint Session) |
| Christopher Shirreff | The Moral Substantivity Criterion for Is / Ought Bridging Arguments |
| Tom De Saegher | On the Notion of an Interpreted Quantum Theory |
| Richard Creek | Tetens’ Commonsense Project |
| Fred Banville & Jessey Wright | Teaching Philosophy of Science with Problem Solving |
| David Bourget | Consciousness and Rationality |
| Jamie Shaw | Was Feyerabend an Epistemological Anarchist? |
| Meghan Winsby | Profligate Pal and a “Therapeutic” Promise |
