Events: Science and Values

Rotman Research Retreat: AI & Democracy

1 May 2024

Charles Ling: Turing Test, Chinese Room, AGI, and GPTs

26 March 2024, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT

NEW DATE – Berna Devezer & Erkan Buzbas: Theoretical Insights on Replication: A Miracle or a Crutch?

1 December 2023, 11:30 am - 3:30 pm EST

(Dis)Trust and AI: Perspectives from Across Disciplines and Sectors

26 October 2023 - 28 October 2023

Ethical Issues in Artificial Intelligence: 2023 Annual Library Lecture Series

4 October 2023 - 26 October 2023

Patrick Fafard: Is Science Enough? Science Advice, Health Essentialism, and Pandemic Decision-Making

4 April 2023, 11:30 am - 12:30 pm EDT

Paul Bloom: Perverse Actions

19 January 2023, 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm EST

James Wilson: What makes a health system good? From cost-effectiveness analysis to ethical optimisation in health systems

23 September 2022, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT

Rotman Dialogue with James Wilson: Philosophy for Public Health and Public Policy

22 September 2022, 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm EDT

Artificial Intelligence, Harm, and You

25 November 2021, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm EST

Race and Racism

7 October 2021 - 28 October 2021

Stewardship of Global Collective Behavior

22 September 2021, 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm EDT

Emerging Minds Colloquium Series

22 January 2021 - 6 May 2021

Evidence & Belief in the Age of Mass Information

7 November 2019 - 28 November 2019

The promises and perils of A(rtificial) I(ntelligence)

18 October 2019, 1:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT

Emily Thomas – Travel Writing as Thought Experiments: Science, Francis Bacon, and Margaret Cavendish’s Blazing World

5 April 2019, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT

Janet Martin: Evidence Reversals: How Fragile is the Evidence Base?

30 November 2018, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EST

Bipasha Baruah: Global Trends in Women’s Employment in Renewable and Clean Energy: Continuities, Contradictions, Disruptions

26 October 2018, 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm EDT

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

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

Julian Savulescu: The Science and Ethics of Human Enhancement

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

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

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

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

29 September 2017, 11:30 am - 1:00 pm EDT

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

28 September 2017, 2:00 pm - 4:30 pm EDT

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

16 September 2016, 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm EDT

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

9 March 2016, 10:30 am - 12:00 pm EST

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

8 March 2016, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EST

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

25 February 2016, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EST

Peter Singer: Animal Liberation, Forty Years On

18 September 2015, 11:30 am - 1:00 pm EDT

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

17 September 2015, 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm EDT

Helen Longino: Individuals or Populations: How Scale Matters

17 April 2015, 11:30 am - 1:00 pm EDT

Joel Lexchin: Those Who Have the Gold Make the Evidence: The Pharmaceutical Industry and Clinical Trials

10 April 2014, 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm EDT

Eric Schliesser: What Happened to Knightian (and Keynesian) Uncertainty Post WWII?

30 November 2012, 10:30 am - 12:00 pm EST

George Reisch: The Paranoid Style in American History of Science

5 October 2012, 11:30 am - 1:00 pm EDT

Nancy Cartwright: Wiser Use of Social Science, Wiser Wishes, Wiser Policies

9 March 2012, 10:30 am - 12:00 pm EST

Nancy Cartwright: Evidence, Argument and Mixed Methods

8 March 2012, 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm EST

Alison Wylie: A Plurality of Pluralisms – Collaborative Practice in Archaeology

18 November 2011, 10:30 am - 12:00 pm EST

Sandra Mitchell: GMOs and Policy in a Complex, Diverse World

30 September 2011, 11:30 am - 1:00 pm EDT

Kyle Stanford: The Difference Between Ice Cream and Nazis: Evolution and the Emergence of Moral Objectivity

4 March 2011, 10:30 am - 12:00 pm EST

Philip Kitcher: Alienation and its Dangers

22 October 2010, 11:30 am - 1:00 pm EDT

Philip Kitcher: Authority, Responsibility, and Democracy

21 October 2010, 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm EDT

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