Conference organisers of the 2016 Philosophy of Logic Math and Physics Graduate Student Conference and Information-Theoretic Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics: 2016 Annual Philosophy of Physics Conference have announced they will be able to provide three bursaries of $300 (CAD) each for graduate students who'd like to attend LMP and ITIQM. Priority will be given to [...]
Rotman doctoral candidate, Andrew Peterson, is researching the ethical issues that stem from testing brain-injured patients for consciousness. On May 4th, his work was featured on an episode of the CBC radio program, Ideas from the Trenches. The series, hosted by Paul Kennedy, focuses on research being conducted by graduate students at universities across Canada. [...]
Carl Craver is a philosopher of neuroscience with side interests in the history and philosophy of biology, general philosophy of science, metaphysics, and moral psychology. He is a professor in the Department of Philosophy and the Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology Program at Washington University in St. Louis. On March 31 and April 1, he delivered two lectures here [...]
Videos of three talks have been added to the Rethinking the Taxonomy of Psychology playlist on the Rotman Institute YouTube Channel -- Lisa Saksida, Muhammed Ali Khalidi, and Owen Whooley. Further talks will be available soon. Lisa Saksida: Cognition and the ventral visual-perirhinal-hippocampal stream [embedyt] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFCO0DjFgsk[/embedyt] Muhammad Ali Khalidi: Crosscutting Psychoneural Kinds: Some Lessons from [...]
In our April monthly digest, we're very excited to share job news of some of our members. Tommaso Bruni accepted a position as a Research Associate in the Wellcome Trust funded project “Towards a Humanitarian Research Ethics” at King's College London. Molly Kao accepted a position as Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at [...]
The Rotman 2016 Annual Conference: Rethinking the Taxonomy of Psychology was held on April 15 - 17, 2016, in London, Ontario. Advances in cognitive neuroscience, including neuroimaging techniques, have challenged the conceptual foundations of psychology. Participants in this interdisciplinary workshop investigated questions at the intersection of philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience raised by the emerging data [...]
Rotman Director, Chris Smeenk, was recently awarded a $205,000 grant from the John Templeton Foundation to pursue research on the philosophy of cosmology. Smeenk will serve as principal investigator, along with co-investigators Jim Weatherall and John Manchak, both from the Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science at UC Irvine. Physical cosmology has made enormous [...]
Professor Markus Müller joined Western University in 2015 as an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Applied Mathematics and Philosophy. He also holds a Canada Research Chair in the Foundations of Physics at Western. In addition, Dr. Müller is an associate faculty member at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo. His work addresses [...]
Over the next few months, there will be four conferences held here in London that are co-sponsored by the Rotman Institute of Philosophy. Note that registration for a couple of these conferences is currently open. Further information can be found on our event pages, or on the respective conference websites. Computationally Assisted Mathematical Discovery and [...]
Carl Craver, of Washington University in St. Louis, recently delivered two talks at the Rotman Institute, co-sponsored by Western's Brain and Mind Institute, as part of our yearly neurophilosophy speaker series. The first talk, entitled Memory, Time and Agency, was an examination of how individuals with episodic amnesia make future-oriented decisions. The second talk, Ontic [...]
