The Evolutionary Argument Against Naturalism & Theistic Explanation (and the SEP)

Mohan Matthen has a nice, punchy write up on Plantinga's 'Evolutionary Argument Against Naturalism' (EAAN) over at NewAPPS. The EAAN has been influential in some anti-Darwinian circles (Nagel's recent flirtation with teleology in science being one prominent example). I think Mathen is entirely right to suggest that the EAAN relies on an "extraordinarily narrow view [...]

2014-03-18T16:33:57-04:00October 13th, 2012|Philosophy of Science|

Reframing Manning on Beginning of Life

By Katy Fulfer In Friday's Globe and Mail, Preston Manning (CEO of a conservative think-tank in Canada) lamented the Canadian Parliament's decision to not re-open the definition of legal personhood. Many Canadians viewed the attempt to discuss legal personhood (which currently is granted upon birth) as an attack on abortion rights. (Find Manning's commentary at the [...]

2014-03-18T16:35:41-04:00October 9th, 2012|Biomedical Ethics, Science and Society|

What’s New about Systems Biology? – Valérie Racine

What’s New about Systems Biology? I was recently invited to an inter-disciplinary workshop held at the Institute of Systems Biology (ISB) in Seattle, where HPS scholars and scientists met to address the question: What’s new about ‘Systems Biology’? The workshop was organized by Arizona State University’s (ASU) Center for Biology and Society, in partnership with [...]

2014-03-18T16:36:57-04:00September 24th, 2012|Philosophy of Biology|

Call It What It Is

Academic Culture and the Climate for Women in Philosophy Philosophy stands out in humanities as the lone field in which gender equality remains a goal, not a reality. In the August 10th article in the National Post, Philosophy gender war sparked by call for larger role for women, we can find at best a half-hearted attempt to think [...]

2016-07-19T15:50:10-04:00August 14th, 2012|Feminist Philosophy, Phenomenology|

Philosophy, Education, and the Science of One

In September 2011, Yann Benétreau-Dupin arrived at Western to pursue his PhD in Philosophy. Yann was one of the two recipients of the Rotman Institute of Philosophy Doctoral Entrance Scholarship, a $10,000 scholarship offered to students of with outstanding performance history and achievements, and who specialize in the study of philosophy and science. In October, [...]

Eating Animals: Reflections from the International FAB Congress

By Katy Fulfer I’ve recently attended the International Congress of the Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, held in Rotterdam, the Netherlands in late June. One argument that Mary Rawlinson presented in her talk, “The Future of Food: Bioethics, Justice, and the Imperative to Consume,” has stayed with me in the following weeks. In her talk, Rawlinson [...]

2013-03-16T16:32:19-04:00July 23rd, 2012|Philosophy of Ethics|

Beyond Turf Wars: The Facebook comment thread

By Wayne Myrvold I posted a link to my blog post, “Beyond Turf Wars,” on my Facebook page. It resulted in an interest back-and-forth involving myself, philosopher Vishnya Maudlin, and Matt Leifer, a physicist working on the foundations of quantum theories, about, among other things, the differences between physics and philosophy, and the respectove roles [...]

2016-01-29T12:12:34-05:00June 17th, 2012|Philosophy of Physics, Philosophy of Science|
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