Nancy Cartwright: Wiser Use of Social Science, Wiser Wishes, Wiser Policies
Video of Dr. Cartwright's talk at the Rotman Institute in March of 2012: Pot Belly Pig Secrets zp8497586rq
Video of Dr. Cartwright's talk at the Rotman Institute in March of 2012: Pot Belly Pig Secrets zp8497586rq
Nancy Cartwright began the second installment of her Rotman Lecture (‘Wiser use of Social Science’) with a discussion of the tragic death of 17 month old Peter Connelly, a case of child neglect and abuse that led to a widespread media controversy and to a public inquiry into Britain’s child services and social services programmes. [...]
An interview with Rotman Institute Visiting Fellow John Bolender John Bolender has been a Visiting Fellow in the Rotman Institute during the 2011-2012 academic year. He is a philosopher of mind whose primary interest is cognition. Specifically, he has inquired into how the computational core of language may crucially enter into uniquely human cognitive capacities, [...]