It is my pleasure to introduce the Rotman Institute of Philosophy Events Planning and Outreach Committee (REPOC for short). REPOC organizes and helps Rotman Institute members carry out public outreach and science education events. On Tuesday, April 2nd, REPOC held its inaugural event, the first in a series of Science Pub Nights. At Science Pub Nights, [...]
A while back in the article “Science, Values and Democracy” I argued that science alone cannot determine policy and that values and politics play an integral part of the decision making process. If you don’t want to take my word for it, here is an article by psychiatry profess or Keith Humphreys talking about values in [...]
Here are links to letters published in the London Free Press discussing two of their recent editorials: Veils during Citizenship Oaths: http://www.lfpress.com/comment/letters/home.html?p=48009&x=letters&l_publish_date=&s_publish_date=&s_keywords=brandt&s_topic=&s_letter_type=Letter%20to%20Editor&s_topic=&s_letter_status=Active&s=letters Como Conquistar Un Hombre Regulations Governing Prostitution: http://www.lfpress.com/comment/letters/home.html?p=49989&x=letters&l_publish_date=&s_publish_date=&s_keywords=brandt&s_topic=&s_letter_type=Letter%20to%20Editor&s_topic=&s_letter_status=Active&s=letters zp8497586rq
The Chronicle of Higher Education recently published an account of a divisive controversy in linguistics concerning the features of an obscure Amazonian language, Pirahã. Allegedly absent in Pirahã is 'recursion'—the embedding of sentences within sentences—a feature that is (supposedly) central to human language according to the dominant Chomskyan account. The Chronicle article is unfortunately focused [...]