Again this year, Rotman Institute faculty members, postdoctoral fellows, graduate students, and alumni are presenting on a number of topics at the biennial meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association (PSA). The conference takes place from November 2 – 6, 2016 in Atlanta, Georgia. Beyond presenting papers, Institute members are also presenting research posters related [...]
As the month of September ends, we have officially welcomed the start of fall and two additional postdoctoral fellows to the institute. Please join us in welcoming Mike Cuffaro and Kyoko Wada. For a chance to learn more about their backgrounds and research interests, stay tuned for the series of postdoc interviews we'll begin publishing [...]
The start of the fall term is upon us, and we are very excited to introduce three new postdoctoral fellows who have joined the institute. Please join us in extending a warm welcome to Justin Donhauser, Mackenzie Graham, and Marc Holman. Individual interviews offering further details on their backgrounds and research interests will be published [...]
While the institute has quieted down for the summer, our members have still been quite busy. For one Rotman member in particular, we have two very exciting announcements. Please join us in congratulating Justin Bzovy who just began a limited term appointment at Mount Allison University in New Brunswick. In addition to his new position, [...]
During this past month, Rotman members have organised, and taken part in many conferences. Those that included participation by more than one member are listed chronologically below: The Rotman Institute was a co-sponsor of the fifteenth annual Philosophy of Logic, Math and Physics (LMP) graduate student conference, held on June 9-10, here at Western University. [...]
HOPOS 2016, the eleventh biennial meeting of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science, will take place on June 22-25 in Minneapolis. We're pleased to announce that several members of the Rotman Institute will take part in the conference. Sessions that include Rotman members are listed below. The full conference program and [...]
Once again, we are pleased to open this month's post with job news. Yann Benetreau-Dupin accepted a position as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh for 2016-2017. Alkistis Elliott-Graves will be a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Academy of Finland Centre of Excellence in the Philosophy of Social Sciences (TINT) [...]
This is the second in our our weekly series of interviews with the Rotman Institute's postdoctoral fellows. Last week's interview with Alida Liberman can be found here. Tommaso Bruni is a postdoctoral fellow at the Rotman Institute of Philosophy in London, Canada. He completed his PhD in 2013 at the University of Geneva in Switzerland. [...]
This post is the first in our weekly series of interviews with the Rotman Institute's postdoctoral fellows. These interviews are accessible introductions to the scholarship and to the service done by each postdoc. Rotman postdocs are a vital part of the life of the Institute and we hope that these interviews will give our readers a sense of the [...]
In our April monthly digest, we're very excited to share job news of some of our members. Tommaso Bruni accepted a position as a Research Associate in the Wellcome Trust funded project “Towards a Humanitarian Research Ethics” at King's College London. Molly Kao accepted a position as Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at [...]
