We have launched the webpage for the Rotman fall conference, Knowledge and Models in Climate science.On this page, you will find the registration form and other information about the conference and related activities at the institute.
Library Speaker SeriesEach October, the Department of Philosophy at Western initiates a public speakers' series at the London Public Library (Central Branch, 251 Dundas St, Stevenson & Hunt room, 1st Floor). 7:00 p.m. Fall 2014 SeriesClimate Change: The Philosophical Issues October 8, 2014What Do You Bring to a Street Fight?Wayne Myrvold (Western) An editorial in the journal Nature warned climate [...]
Please join us for a three-part lecture series on the science of climate change, presented by visiting Rotman Institute scholar Professor Roman Frigg.September 15, 3pm-5pm: Lecture 1: Basic Concepts in Climate Science---Location: Stevenson Hall, Room 1140[Lecture 1 slides here]September 17, 3pm-5pm: Lecture 2: Climate Modelling---Location: Stevenson Hall, Room 2150H[Lecture 2 slides here ]September 19, 3pm-5pm: [...]
On Monday, April 14, 2014, Professor Charlotte Werndl delivered the final lecture in the Rotman Institute of Philosophy Speaker Series. On Sunday, a day before the lecture, she met with members of the Rotman Institute for a walk around the forks of the Themes River in London, Ontario. In the audio file below, she [...]
Before the lecture, Professor Oreskes sat for an interview with Martin Vezér. In this video, she discusses topics in the philosophy of climate science, including issues in the epistemology and of science, history of climate science, the politics of climate change, and other subjects related to her (and Eric Conway’s) book, Merchants of Doubt. After [...]
By Martin Vezér Since 2001, the Institute Vienna Circle (IVC), the University of Vienna, and the Center for Interdisciplinary Research have held a summer university program focusing on topics in the philosophy of natural and social sciences. This past July, I attended the Vienna International Summer University (VISU)—a program that brought together an international group of professors [...]
On Friday, April 5th, 2013 Dr. Wendy Parker from Ohio University visited the Rotman Institute. Dr. Parker’s main research interests include models and computer simulation in science (especially climate modeling), science and public policy, and the history of atmospheric science and meteorology. In her Rotman Speaker Series lecture, “Beyond Prediction: The Computer as ‘Inductive Device’ [...]
