This week we are taking a break from our interviews with post doctoral fellows to interview Professor Tim Bayne, an endowed chair in the Philosophy of Neuroscience at Western University and a member of the Rotman Institute of Philosophy. Before coming to Western, Bayne worked at the University of Manchester, the University of Oxford, Macquarie University, [...]
On Friday, June 10th, immediately following the LMP conference, the Rotman Institue is pleased to announce a special colloquium talk: "Laws of Nature: Revisiting the 17th Century Debate" Stathis Psillos Friday, June 10th, 3:30-5:00pm StvH 1145 In this talk I will review the transition from powers to laws in the seventeenth century. I will argue [...]
Lucas Dunlap is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Rotman Institute of Philosophy in London, Ontario. He completed his doctorate in 2015 at the University of Maryland College Park. His research addresses fundamental questions in the philosophy of science and in the philosophy of physics. Specifically, he studies the foundations of quantum mechanics, Quantum Information [...]
This is the fourth post in our our weekly series of interviews with the Rotman Institute's postdoctoral fellows. Last week's interview with Catherine Stinson can be found here. Tommaso Bruni's interview can be found here, and Alida Liberman's interview can be found here. Fermín Fulda is a postdoctoral fellow at the Rotman Institute of Philosophy. He graduated [...]
Once again, we are pleased to open this month's post with job news. Yann Benetreau-Dupin accepted a position as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh for 2016-2017. Alkistis Elliott-Graves will be a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Academy of Finland Centre of Excellence in the Philosophy of Social Sciences (TINT) [...]
The annual Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, now in its 85th year, begins this weekend. This year's congress is being hosted by the University of Calgary. Faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate students from the Rotman Institute will be participating in the congress. Listed below are the many sessions that include Rotman members. If [...]
This is the third post in our our weekly series of interviews with the Rotman Institute's postdoctoral fellows. Last week's interview with Tommaso Bruni can be found here, and the interview with Alida Liberman can be found here. Catherine Stinson is a postdoctoral fellow at the Rotman Institute of Philosophy. Prior to joining the Rotman Institute, she [...]
This is the second in our our weekly series of interviews with the Rotman Institute's postdoctoral fellows. Last week's interview with Alida Liberman can be found here. Tommaso Bruni is a postdoctoral fellow at the Rotman Institute of Philosophy in London, Canada. He completed his PhD in 2013 at the University of Geneva in Switzerland. [...]
The Rotman 2016 Annual Conference: Rethinking the Taxonomy of Psychology was held on April 15 – 17, 2016. The workshop playlist on the Rotman Institute YouTube Channel is now complete. It includes videos of each of the speakers, poster presentations, and the concluding plenary session. Newly uploaded videos are listed below. Workshop posters, a paper archive, and [...]
This post is the first in our weekly series of interviews with the Rotman Institute's postdoctoral fellows. These interviews are accessible introductions to the scholarship and to the service done by each postdoc. Rotman postdocs are a vital part of the life of the Institute and we hope that these interviews will give our readers a sense of the [...]
