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May 14, 2013
Science and Reason – Part 1: The Rationality of Modern Science (by Henrik Lagerlund)
Von Wright (right) with Wittgenstein. Most of my intellectual development growing up was through books. I read basically anything I could get my hands on. Books were more important to me than school and I never paid much attention to … Continue reading
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April 4, 2013
The first conference of the German Society for Philosophy of Science (by Alex Manafu)
In March 2013 the German Society for Philosophy of Science/Gesellschaft für Wissenschaftsphilosophie (GWP) held its first meeting. It is somewhat of a sociological puzzle why a country with such a rich tradition in philosophy of science did not have (up until … Continue reading
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December 21, 2012
Can the Discovery of Consciousness Provide More Reason to Let a Patient Die? A Response to Savulescu (by Adam Shriver)
Recently, the Vancouver Sun reported on an ongoing legal case that potentially has important implications for neuroethics and the law. Kenny Ng, the patient at the center of the controversy, was injured in a car accident seven years ago and … Continue reading
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October 9, 2012
Reframing Manning on Beginning of Life
By Katy Fulfer In Friday’s Globe and Mail, Preston Manning (CEO of a conservative think-tank in Canada) lamented the Canadian Parliament’s decision to not re-open the definition of legal personhood. Many Candadians viewed the attempt to discuss legal personhood (which currently … Continue reading
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May 2, 2012
Thinking Beyond the Observable
An interview with Rotman Institute Visiting Fellow John Bolender John Bolender has been a Visiting Fellow in the Rotman Institute during the 2011-2012 academic year. He is a philosopher of mind whose primary interest is cognition. Specifically, he has inquired … Continue reading
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March 13, 2012
"Science controversies past and present," in Physics Today
Steve Sherwood, of the Climate Change Research Center at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, provides a thoughtful, if schematic, discussion of historical scientific controversy, linking past polemics to present strife on climate change. Both Copernican heliocentrism … Continue reading
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