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Deborah Fox
2018-10-17T11:57:09+00:00
PUBLIC EVENTS
PUBLIC LECTURES
Naomi Oreskes: Merchants of Doubt: Using History and Philosophy of Science to Understand the Climate Change Debate
October 4, 2013, 7:00 pm
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9:00 pm
Robert DiSalle: Gravity, Geometry, and Philosophy: 100 Years in Einstein’s Universe
March 2, 2015, 7:00 pm
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9:00 pm
Elisabeth Lloyd: The Orgasm Wars
March 6, 2015, 3:30 pm
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5:00 pm
Peter Singer: The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically
September 17, 2015, 7:00 pm
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8:30 pm
Peter Singer: Animal Liberation, Forty Years On
September 18, 2015, 3:30 pm
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5:00 pm
Evan Fraser: Food in 2050: The Challenge of Feeding 9 Billion
February 25, 2016, 7:00 pm
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8:30 pm
Cordelia Fine: Let Toys Be Toys: The Science and Ethics of Gendered Toy Marketing
March 8, 2016, 7:00 pm
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8:30 pm
Cordelia Fine: The myth of the Lehman Sisters? Sex, testosterone, and financial risk-taking
March 9, 2016, 3:30 pm
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5:00 pm
Andrew Light: What Happened in Paris? How Differentiation Evolved to Create a Global Climate Agreement.
September 16, 2016, 5:00 pm
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6:30 pm
Aimee van Wynsberghe: Robot Ethics: What is it and why should we care?
March 16, 2017, 7:00 pm
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8:30 pm
Aimee van Wynsberghe: The Ethics of Ethical Robots
March 17, 2017, 4:00 pm
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5:30 pm
Alison Gopnik: The Gardener and the Carpenter: What developmental science tells us about relations between parents and children.
September 28, 2017, 6:00 pm
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8:30 pm
Alison Gopnik: When children are better learners than adults are: Theory formation, causal models, and the evolution of learning.
September 29, 2017, 3:30 pm
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5:00 pm
Julian Savulescu: The Science and Ethics of Human Enhancement
March 15, 2018, 5:00 pm
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6:30 pm
Lisa Feldman Barrett – Emotions: Facts vs. Fictions
March 28, 2019, 7:00 pm
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8:30 pm
PANEL DISCUSSIONS
Panel Discussion: Responsible Robotics: Shaping a future with robots worth wanting
March 15, 2017, 7:00 pm
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8:30 pm
Panel Discussion – Editing the Human Genome: The Ethics of Moulding our Future
March 14, 2018, 7:00 pm
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8:30 pm
Panel Discussion: Canada Up in Smoke? Debating the Impact of Cannabis Legalization
October 1, 2018, 6:30 pm
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8:30 pm
LIBRARY LECTURES
Wayne Myrvold: What Do You Bring to a Street Fight?
October 8, 2014, 7:00 pm
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9:00 pm
Gillian Barker: Ecological Thinking about Climate Change: A New Paradigm?
October 15, 2014, 7:00 pm
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9:00 pm
Public Panel Discussion: Climate Change: What is to be done?
October 23, 2014, 7:00 pm
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9:00 pm
Leonard Smith and Erica Thompson: Doing Science in the Dark: The Challenges of Climate-Like Science
October 29, 2014, 7:00 pm
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9:00 pm
Chris Smeenk: Einstein’s Path to a New Theory
October 7, 2015, 7:00 pm
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8:30 pm
Stathis Psillos: Engaging Philosophy: Einstein on the Method of Science
October 15, 2015, 7:00 pm
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8:30 pm
Doreen Fraser: Einstein, God, Dice, and Quantum Mechanics
October 21, 2015, 7:00 pm
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8:30 pm
Wayne Myrvold: Einstein and the Atom
October 28, 2015, 7:00 pm
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8:30 pm
Catherine Stinson: The Body in ‘Mental Illness’
October 5, 2016, 7:00 pm
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8:30 pm
Jackie Sullivan: Understanding Mental Illness: Will a Single Explanatory Model Do?
October 12, 2016, 7:00 pm
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8:30 pm
Chris Viger: Brains and Persons
October 26, 2016, 7:00 pm
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8:30 pm
Louis Charland: Why Neuroscience Needs “Passion”
November 2, 2016, 7:00 pm
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8:30 pm
Happiness and Well-Being: Philosophical Perspectives
January 17, 2019
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February 7, 2019
OTHER PUBLIC EVENTS
Chris Smeenk: Einstein’s Universe (Classes Without Quizzes)
November 10, 2015, 7:00 pm
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8:00 pm
Einstein: Philosopher | Scientist, 100 years of General Relativity
November 18, 2015
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December 12, 2015
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