Rotman Research Retreat: AI & Democracy
Western Interdisciplinary Research Building Perth Drive, London, Ontario, CanadaThis retreat will bring together researchers from across disciplines and departments at Western to look ahead to future normative, political, and technological dimensions of anticipated impacts that AI will have on democracies. There is already a substantial body of scholarship exploring the ways in which new technologies have impacted democratic practices and institutions and [...]
Philosophy of Physics Workshop: Foundations of Thermodynamics 2024
Western Interdisciplinary Research Building Perth Drive, London, Ontario, CanadaEVENT DESCRIPTION In the past few decades there has been a transformation—some have called it a revolution—in the way that many physicists are approaching the science of thermodynamics. Philosophers of science have only recently begun to take notice of this transformation. This workshop, which brings together philosophers and physicists at is inspired by the [...]