#TBT Kyle Stanford’s lecture, “The Difference Between Ice Cream and Nazis: Evolution and the Emergence of Moral Objectivity”, is up on the Rotman YouTube Channel

Kyle Stanford, of the University of California Irvine, delivered a lecture entitled, "The Difference Between Ice Cream and Nazis: Evolution and the Emergence of Moral Objectivity", where he examined the evolutionary function of moral projection. This lecture took place on March 4, 2011 as part of the Rotman Institute of Philosophy Speaker Series. Video of [...]

2015-07-30T10:31:06-04:00July 30th, 2015|Events, Philosophy of Ethics|

#TBT Uriah Kriegel’s lecture, “Experiential Origins of Intentionality”, is up on the Rotman YouTube Channel

During the 2010/2011 Rotman Institute of Philosophy Speaker Series, Uriah Kriegel, of the University of Arizona, delivered a lecture entitled, "Experiential Origins of Intentionality". Several authors - Loar, McGinn, Strawson, and Horgan, among others - have argued that the intentionality proper to conscious experience is somehow prior to, and grounds, other forms of intentionality. Here [...]

2015-07-23T13:37:01-04:00July 23rd, 2015|Events|

#TBT Colin Howson’s lecture, “Should Probabilities be Countably Additive?”, is up on the Rotman YouTube Channel

During the 2010/2011 Rotman Institute of Philosophy Speaker Series, Colin Howson, of the University of Toronto, delivered a lecture entitled "Should Probabilities be Countably Additive?", examining a specific case in the philosophy of science related to probability. Video of this lecture is now available on the Rotman YouTube channel.

2015-07-16T18:49:04-04:00July 16th, 2015|Events, Philosophy of Science|

#TBT Susan Haack’s lecture, Six Signs of Scientism, is up on the Rotman YouTube Channel

During the 2010/2011 Rotman Institute of Philosophy Speaker Series, Susan Haack spoke about Scientism, the view that natural science is the most authoritative way of looking at the world, and is superior to other interpretations of life. Video of this lecture, Six Signs of Scientism, is now available on the Rotman YouTube channel.

2015-07-09T15:59:02-04:00July 9th, 2015|Events, Philosophy of Science|

Rotman Postdoc Dan Hicks has job news!

Cross-posted from Dan Hicks' personal blog. Starting in September, I will be an AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow, working in the EPA’s Chemical Safety for Sustainability [CSS] program. I’ve actually known about this for almost two months, but only received the paperwork making things official this week. (I’m taking this as my first introduction [...]

2021-06-24T14:26:57-04:00July 3rd, 2015|Members, PostDoctoral Fellows, Science and Society|
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