November 2019 Member News & Updates

We'd like to begin this post by congratulating Adam Woodcox who successfully defended his doctoral thesis, titled "Modes of Argumentation in Aristotle's Natural Science", on November 19 (supervised by Devin Henry). Well done, Adam! Please also join us in congratulating Andrew Chater who just started a new postdoc at Trent University as part of the North American and Arctic Defence and [...]

2020-01-09T10:03:53-05:00December 10th, 2019|Members|

October 2019 Member News & Updates

We'd like to begin this post by congratulating several of recent graduates who took part in fall convocation this past month: Eunice Chan, Marie Gueguen, Adam Koberinski, and Chang Liu.  We'd also like to recognize Jaclyn Lanthier (supervised by Jacqueline Sullivan) who successfully defended her doctoral thesis, "Understanding Interdisciplinary Corroboration: Lessons from a Review Paper in the Mind-Brain Sciences", on [...]

2019-11-08T14:44:08-05:00November 8th, 2019|Members|

September 2019 Member News & Updates

This September, several new members joined us at the Institute. Please join us in extending a warm welcome to the following people--we're thrilled to have you all with us! New Associate Faculty Members (profiles coming soon!): Pauline Barmby (Department of Physics & Astronomy), Carolyn McLeod (Department of Philosophy) & Jacob Shelley (Faculty of Law and [...]

2019-10-10T13:42:20-04:00October 10th, 2019|Members|

August 2019 Member News & Updates

Two of our graduate students successfully defended their theses this August. Please join us in congratulating Adam Koberinski (supervised by Wayne Myrvold) whose thesis, “Theory construction in high-energy particle physics”, was defended on August 1. Eunice Chan (supervised by Robert Corless) defended her thesis, "Algebraic Companions and Linearizations", on August 23. Well done, Adam & [...]

2021-06-24T14:15:42-04:00September 5th, 2019|Members|

July 2019 Member News & Updates

We'd like to begin this month's post by congratulating Marie Gueguen (supervised by Chris Smeenk) who successfully defended her doctoral thesis, "On Separating the Wheat from the Chaff: Surplus Structure and Artifacts in Scientific Theories”, on July 23. This September Marie will begin a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for Philosophy of Science at the University [...]

2019-08-02T13:02:04-04:00August 2nd, 2019|Members|

May & June 2019 Member News & Updates

We'd like to begin this bi-monthly post with news of an exciting addition to the Institute: please join us in welcoming Francesca Vidotto, chosen for the Tier 2 Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Foundations of Physics, a joint position between philosophy and applied mathematics. Francesca's recent research has focused in part on clarifying the phenomenology of [...]

2021-06-24T14:15:54-04:00June 27th, 2019|Members|

March 2019 Member News & Updates

The Institute hosted three visitors in March: Stathis Psillos, Anjan Chakravartty, and Lisa Feldman Barrett. During his stay, Stathis Psillos taught a graduate seminar titled, "What is a Law of Nature?". He also gave commentary during a Rotman Dialogue with Anjan Chakravartty, based on his book, "Scientific Ontology: Integrating Naturalized Metaphysics and Voluntarist Epistemology”. Chakravartty [...]

2021-06-24T14:16:19-04:00April 10th, 2019|Members|

January 2019 Member News & Updates

This month the Institute's annual public lecture series, prepared in partnership with the London Public Library and Western's department of philosophy, began. This year's series, Happiness and Well-Being: Philosophical Perspectives, has been exceptionally successful. Talks by Samantha Brennan, Anthony Skelton, and Rachel Margolis all took place in January. The final talk of the series, by [...]

2021-06-24T14:16:39-04:00February 7th, 2019|Members|
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