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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 - 9:00 pm

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

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

Elisabeth Lloyd: The Orgasm Wars

March 6, 2015, 3:30 pm - 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 - 8:30 pm

Peter Singer: Animal Liberation, Forty Years On

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Aimee van Wynsberghe: The Ethics of Ethical Robots

March 17, 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.

September 28, 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.

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

Julian Savulescu: The Science and Ethics of Human Enhancement

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

Erik Angner: Why the Science of Well-Being Needs the Philosophy of Well-Being—and Vice Versa

February 8, 2019, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

Lisa Feldman Barrett – Emotions: Facts vs. Fictions

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

PANEL DISCUSSIONS

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

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

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

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

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

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

LIBRARY LECTURES

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

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

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

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

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

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

Chris Smeenk: Einstein’s Path to a New Theory

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

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

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

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

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

Wayne Myrvold: Einstein and the Atom

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

Catherine Stinson: The Body in ‘Mental Illness’

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

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

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

Chris Viger: Brains and Persons

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

Louis Charland: Why Neuroscience Needs “Passion”

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

Happiness and Well-Being: Philosophical Perspectives

January 17, 2019 - February 7, 2019

OTHER PUBLIC EVENTS

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

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

Einstein: Philosopher | Scientist, 100 years of General Relativity

November 18, 2015 - December 12, 2015

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