PUBLIC EVENTS

PUBLIC LECTURES

Naomi Oreskes: Merchants of Doubt: Using History and Philosophy of Science to Understand the Climate Change Debate

4 October 2013, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Robert DiSalle: Gravity, Geometry, and Philosophy: 100 Years in Einstein’s Universe

2 March 2015, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Elisabeth Lloyd: The Orgasm Wars

6 March 2015, 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm

Peter Singer: The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically

17 September 2015, 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Peter Singer: Animal Liberation, Forty Years On

18 September 2015, 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm

Evan Fraser: Food in 2050: The Challenge of Feeding 9 Billion

25 February 2016, 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Cordelia Fine: Let Toys Be Toys: The Science and Ethics of Gendered Toy Marketing

8 March 2016, 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Cordelia Fine: The myth of the Lehman Sisters? Sex, testosterone, and financial risk-taking

9 March 2016, 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm

Andrew Light: What Happened in Paris? How Differentiation Evolved to Create a Global Climate Agreement.

16 September 2016, 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm

Aimee van Wynsberghe: Robot Ethics: What is it and why should we care?

16 March 2017, 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Aimee van Wynsberghe: The Ethics of Ethical Robots

17 March 2017, 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Alison Gopnik: The Gardener and the Carpenter: What developmental science tells us about relations between parents and children.

28 September 2017, 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Alison Gopnik: When children are better learners than adults are: Theory formation, causal models, and the evolution of learning.

29 September 2017, 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm

Julian Savulescu: The Science and Ethics of Human Enhancement

15 March 2018, 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm

Lisa Feldman Barrett – Emotions: Facts vs. Fictions

28 March 2019, 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Samir Okasha — Evolution, Altruism and Selfishness

26 March 2020, 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

PANEL DISCUSSIONS

Panel Discussion: Responsible Robotics: Shaping a future with robots worth wanting

15 March 2017, 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Panel Discussion – Editing the Human Genome: The Ethics of Moulding our Future

14 March 2018, 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Panel Discussion: Canada Up in Smoke? Debating the Impact of Cannabis Legalization

1 October 2018, 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

LIBRARY LECTURES

Wayne Myrvold: What Do You Bring to a Street Fight?

8 October 2014, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Gillian Barker: Ecological Thinking about Climate Change: A New Paradigm?

15 October 2014, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Public Panel Discussion: Climate Change: What is to be done?

23 October 2014, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Leonard Smith and Erica Thompson: Doing Science in the Dark: The Challenges of Climate-Like Science

29 October 2014, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Chris Smeenk: Einstein’s Path to a New Theory

7 October 2015, 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Stathis Psillos: Engaging Philosophy: Einstein on the Method of Science

15 October 2015, 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Doreen Fraser: Einstein, God, Dice, and Quantum Mechanics

21 October 2015, 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Wayne Myrvold: Einstein and the Atom

28 October 2015, 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Catherine Stinson: The Body in ‘Mental Illness’

5 October 2016, 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Jackie Sullivan: Understanding Mental Illness: Will a Single Explanatory Model Do?

12 October 2016, 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Chris Viger: Brains and Persons

26 October 2016, 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Louis Charland: Why Neuroscience Needs “Passion”

2 November 2016, 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Happiness and Well-Being: Philosophical Perspectives

17 January 2019 - 7 February 2019

Evidence & Belief in the Age of Mass Information

7 November 2019 - 28 November 2019

OTHER PUBLIC EVENTS

Chris Smeenk: Einstein’s Universe (Classes Without Quizzes)

10 November 2015, 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Einstein: Philosopher | Scientist, 100 years of General Relativity

18 November 2015 - 12 December 2015

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