The month of March was packed with Rotman speaker events! Over the course of the month we hosted Jenann Ismael, Ned Block, Stathis Psillos, Julian Savulescu, and Laura Franklin-Hall as part of our annual speaker series. We also hosted a public panel discussion at Wolf Hall that included Françoise Baylis, David Edgell, Julian Savulescu, and Anthony [...]
From the end of February through early March, Jenann Ismael, Professor of Philosophy at University of Arizona, came to the Institute for a two-week stay. On February 28 Dr. Ismael took part in a Rotman Dialogue--an informal discussion of her recent book, "How Physics Makes Us Free", led by Adam Koberinski. The event was a [...]
This past month we hosted our first talk since moving into our new office space on campus in the Western Interdisciplinary Research Building. On January 25th, Dr. Gillian Crozier, an Associate Professor of Philosophy and the Canada Research Chair in Environment, Culture and Values at Laurentian University, presented a talk titled Revisiting the Social License [...]
For the final edition of Rotman member news for 2017, our members have several important updates to share. One exciting announcement regards Derek Oswick who was awarded a 2016 Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Doctoral Scholarship. The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) recently announced the November 2016 awards on their site here. Please join [...]
It's the final day before we depart for the winter break, and before doing so we'd like to take a moment to recognize the three Rotman Institute doctoral students who successfully defended their theses this past year. Their names, along with the titles of their dissertations, are listed below. John Jenkinson - A New Framework for [...]
In January of next year, Henrik Lagerlund will be leaving Western University to begin a new position as professor in the history of philosophy at Stockholm University. Henrik has been an integral part of the institute, having been one of the founding faculty members, and acting as interim director in 2015. He will be deeply [...]
News of publications, conference presentations, awards, and outreach activities for the past month are all listed below in alphabetical order. Three Rotman alumni took part in the Super-Pac Early Career Workshop in Philosophy of Astrophysics and Cosmology at The Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh on Oct 27 - 29. Yann Benétreau-Dupin gave [...]
This month we welcomed a new Administrative Assitant, Stephanie Desarmeau, who joined us from the Clinical Skills Learning Program at Schulich. Stephanie has taken over for Rob Read, who left the institute at the end of last month to pursue a full-time career in organic farming. Please join us in extending a warm welcome to Stephanie, [...]
We'd like to begin with a welcome to the 2017-18 school year--hope everyone had a great summer and is excited for the year ahead. The start of the new year includes some changes in the members of our Steering Committee. Thank you to our outgoing elected members Tony Weis and Markus Müller, and to the [...]
We're very pleased to begin this month's post with exciting job news from some of our members. First, Samantha Brennan has been appointed the new Dean of Arts at the University of Guelph. She will begin her five-year term in January 2018. She will be deeply missed here at Western, but we wish her the [...]
