Join us next Wednesday March 5th at 1:30pm in University College room 287 for a talk by our Visiting Fellow, Douglas Kutach. The Metaphysics Of Causation, Solved In order to illustrate how Empirical Fundamentalism works in practice, I conduct an empirical analysis of causation. The result I present constitutes a comprehensive metaphysics of causation. I [...]
Dr. Stathis Psillos' talk, 'Revisiting 'the Bankruptcy of Science' Debate' is now available on our youtube page. Click here for the video
Check out the recent interview with Rotman Institute post-doc Robert Foley on CHRW. The interview with Robert begins about fifteen minutes in.Click here for the audio
Check out the post by Reuven Brandt about assisted dying on the Impact Ethics blog: http://impactethics.ca/2014/02/19/the-logical-slippery-slope-is-neither-slippery-nor-logical/
This past weekend, I [Rotman Postdoc Dan Hicks] attended the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science [AAAS] in Chicago. I presented a poster discussing my current work, on the controversy over genetically modified foods, and was interviewed with a writer at ScienceNOW, the news blog at Science/AAAS. Check out the [...]
In our paper, we discuss a recent fMRI study from Professor Maria Concetta Morrone’s lab in Pisa, Italy (Pooresmaeili et al., 2013) which examined the role of the primary visual cortex (V1) in size perception. Consistent with previous fMRI studies that examined V1 activation during size perception in the context of optical illusion displays (Murray [...]
